Research Associate in Enabling CO2 Storage using Artificial Intelligence
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Posted on:
30-10-2025
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Job Summary
Role: Research Associate on Enabling CO2 storage using Artificial Intelligence
Grade and Salary:Grade
Contract Type: Part Time (0.6FTE/ 21 hours per week) Fixed Term (4 Months)
Rewards and Benefits:33 days annual leave plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff (Part time workers should pro rata this by their FTE). Use our total rewards calculator: to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.
Detailed Description
The School of Energy Geoscience Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) at Heriot-Watt university (HWU) Edinburgh Scotland has an opening a 12 months PDRA position to work on the ECO-AI project (Enabling CO2 storage using Artificial Intelligence techniques). This post will be based at the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering (IGE). Further details about ECO-AI project are available at the project webpage Description
The successful candidate is expected to develop cutting edge deep learning models for multi-scale flow modelling of CO2 in subsurface reservoirs. Two aspects are of special interests (a) pore-to-core scale upscaling (b) upscaling of reactive flow 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 built-in model constrains (e) Efficient coupling of deep learning models to numerical solvers for hybrid CO2 flow modelling.
The developed machine learning techniques will be open-sourced 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 open-source 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.
Education Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria
- A PhD degree in computational science & engineering applied mathematics physics or in a related computational field (or close to successful completion).
- Prior experience in developing deep learning models using open-source libraries.
- Prior experience in computational fluid dynamics using open-source software packages.
- Strong track record of publications in high impact scientific journals.
- Working experience in modern software development techniques (version control continuous integration software testing etc).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to write professional reports.
How to Apply
Please submit via the Heriot-Watt on-line recruitment system (1) Cover letter describing their interest and suitability for the post; (2) Full CV.
Applications must be submitted by midnight onTuesday 4th November 2025.
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Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- ELISA
- Immunoassays
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Cell Biology
- Research Experience
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Microscopy
- Research Laboratory Experience
- Western Blot
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