Fully Funded Postdoctoral and PhD Opportunities in Petroleum Engineering, Geothermal Systems, CCUS, and ML/AI at Louisiana State University Louisiana State University in United States

Postdoctoral Fellow opportunity at The University of Texas at Austin in the Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, working with the UT-RAPID Industry Affiliate Program under the supervision of Dr. Eric van Oort. This postdoctoral role focuses on research and development in well construction and drilling science, with special emphasis on ultra-deep geothermal wells, HPHT oil & gas systems, drilling automation, and autonomous well construction. The work also spans carbon st...

Mohamed L. Malki, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington , is recruiting two PhD students for the Resource and Energy Engineering Program beginning in Spring 2027 . The research areas include numerical simulation , reactive transport , geophysical forward and inverse modeling , with connections to reservoir simulation , geologic hydrogen , geothermal energy , geophysics , and machine learning . This is a strong fit for students interested in subsurface energy systems, modeli...

Florida International University’s Department of Civil Engineering is seeking applications for two fully funded PhD positions starting in Spring 2027 or Fall 2027 . The research topic is CFD in urban heat modeling and AI , with a focus on modeling heat and wind dynamics in urban environments using OpenFOAM and urban canopy models . This is a strong fit for students interested in computational fluid dynamics , urban environmental research , machine learning/artificial intelligence , and scientifi...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at University of Texas at Austin for Fall 2027 in the Land Intelligence Lab led by Assistant Professor Fa Li . The position focuses on wildfire , land ecosystem dynamics , carbon–water coupling , remote sensing , and AI / AI for Science . This is a strong fit for students interested in environmental data science, biosphere risks, and computational approaches to Earth and ecosystem problems. The post states that the PhD is fully funded . Applicants are asked to submit...

Yuanhang Chen, Murray F. and Julia Hawkins Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University , is taking additional applications for three positions in his research group. Two openings are experimental-focus roles : Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Associate . These are broad, multi-topic positions spanning geothermal engineering , thermal-hydraulics , well control , hydrocarbon transport and safety , CO2 transport and injection , managed pressure drilling , and well...