Research Associate - Enabling CO2 Storage Using Artificial Intelligence

Role:Research Associate on Enabling CO2 storage using Artificial Intelligence

Grade and Salary:Gradeper annum

FTE and working pattern:1FTE 35hrs per week Monday Friday

Contract:Fixed Term for 12 Months

Holiday Entitlement:33 days annual leaveplus 9 buildings closed days (and Christmas Eve when it falls on a weekday)

Purpose of Role

The successful candidate is expected to develop cutting edge deep learning models for multiscale flow modelling of CO2 in subsurface reservoirs. Two aspects are of special interests (a) poretocore scale upscaling (b) upscaling of reactive flow processes at porescale. In addition the successful candidates will contribute to a wide range of AI applications in subsurface flow modelling including (a) stochastic generation of porous media realizations using deep generative models (b) deep learning based property prediction using various architectures (c) Deep learning based proxy modelling with physics based losses and builtin model constrains (e) Efficient coupling of deep learning models to numerical solvers for hybrid CO2 flow modelling. The developed machine learning techniques will be opensourced and be validated across a wide range of applications and on experimental data and direct numerical simulations generated by the project team.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake the following:

• Develop deep learning models for fluid flow in porous media.
• Disseminate research results in peer reviewed journals and interdisciplinary conferences.
• Publish opensource code repositories demonstrating all developed techniques and associated computational notebooks blogs and presentation materials.
• Participate in regular project meetings with team members and project sponsors.

Essential & Desirable Criteria

Essential

1. A PhD degree in computational science & engineering applied mathematics physics or in a related computational field (or close to successful completion).
2. Prior experience in developing deep learning models using opensource libraries.
3. Prior experience in computational fluid dynamics using opensource software packages.
4. Strong track record of publications in high impact scientific journals.
5. Working experience in modern software development techniques (version control continuous integration software testing etc).
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to write professional reports.

How to Apply

Applications can be submitted up to midnight(UK time)onSunday 01 June 2025.

Pleasesubmit your CV & covering letter via the HeriotWatt online recruitment.

We welcome and will consider flexible working patterns e.g. parttime working and job share options.

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About the Team

The School of Energy Geoscience Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) at HeriotWatt university (HWU) Edinburgh Scotland has an opening a 12 months PDRA position to work on the ECOAI project (Enabling CO2 storage using Artificial Intelligence techniques). This post will be based at the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE). Further details about ECOAI project are available at the project webpageHeriotWatt University

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