Prospective Undergraduate Researchers
EPIC occasionally has opportunities to work with us an undergraduate researcher. In general, preference will be given to students who have completed "igneous and metamorphic petrology" along with other introductory geology courses (due to the nature of the work in our lab). If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity, please contact me at christy.till@asu.edu.
Prospective Graduate Students
I am seeking applicants for the Dec. 1, 2023 deadline for graduate school in the EPIC lab with a Fall 2024 start date. If you are interested to applying to graduate school to work with me, please follow this link to a separate page specifically for prospective graduate students, where I provide a lot more information and advice on applying to be a graduate student in the EPIC lab and in the School of Earth & Space Exploration at ASU in general, as well as information on need-based graduate application fee waivers if that is of interest.
Note, In place of individual meetings I will host a series of three open Zoom Information Sessions in Fall 2023 about graduate school in EPIC and applying to the ASU Dec. 1, 2023 application date for graduate school starting in Fall 2024:
EPIC Grad School Info Sessions (via Zoom): Sign up to attend any of the three times using this link.
Thursday September 28, 2023 1:30-2:30 PM MST (same as Pacific)
Wednesday October 25, 2023 2:30-3:30 PM MST (same as Pacific)
Tuesday November 21, 2023 1:30-2:30 PM MST (same as Mountain)
-Prof. Christy Till, September 2023
Note, In place of individual meetings I will host a series of three open Zoom Information Sessions in Fall 2023 about graduate school in EPIC and applying to the ASU Dec. 1, 2023 application date for graduate school starting in Fall 2024:
EPIC Grad School Info Sessions (via Zoom): Sign up to attend any of the three times using this link.
Thursday September 28, 2023 1:30-2:30 PM MST (same as Pacific)
Wednesday October 25, 2023 2:30-3:30 PM MST (same as Pacific)
Tuesday November 21, 2023 1:30-2:30 PM MST (same as Mountain)
-Prof. Christy Till, September 2023
Prospective Postdoctoral Fellows
We are currently seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental Petrology to conduct piston-cylinder solubility experiments in conjunction with our recently-awarded NASA ICAR grant, Tracing Rocky Exoplanet Compositions (TREC). TREC is an interdisciplinary grant with collaborations across seven institutions (read more). Collaborative research on grant tasks will be conducted in the EPIC lab at ASU’s main Tempe campus (lab details). The postdoc will be under the supervision of Dr. Christy Till (School of Earth and Space Exploration) and Dr. Kara Brugman (FORCE).
The desired start date is Winter–Spring 2024 and will continue for three years with a competitive salary and includes benefits such as health insurance and a voluntary retirement plan. A successful applicant will conduct research, document results, write journal articles, and present their work at scientific meetings. If you are interested in the position, have questions, or know of anyone who may be a good candidate, please email me (christy.till@asu.edu).
-Prof. Christy Till, September 2023
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SESE Exploration Postdoctoral Fellowships: The School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU sponsors one or more interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowships each year with proposals due in December annually (for a Summer or Fall start date). See here for more information. This program emphasizes supporting scholars focused on interdisciplinary research, with a requirement of having two faculty mentors with different disciplinary expertise. For this program, the more interdisciplinary the proposed project and the more divergent the expertise of the two proposed advisors, the better. For example, a proposed research project with a faculty mentor with a seismology background and another with an igneous petrology background would likely be more favored than one with mentors with igneous petrology and igneous geochemistry expertise. Also Prof Till is an advisor for a present SESE Exploration Fellow (Dr. Daniel Portner), so while not impossible, it is improbable that an SESE Exploration Postdoc applicant applying to work with Prof Till will get chosen in the Winter 2021-2022 selection round, all other things being equal.
The desired start date is Winter–Spring 2024 and will continue for three years with a competitive salary and includes benefits such as health insurance and a voluntary retirement plan. A successful applicant will conduct research, document results, write journal articles, and present their work at scientific meetings. If you are interested in the position, have questions, or know of anyone who may be a good candidate, please email me (christy.till@asu.edu).
-Prof. Christy Till, September 2023
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SESE Exploration Postdoctoral Fellowships: The School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU sponsors one or more interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellowships each year with proposals due in December annually (for a Summer or Fall start date). See here for more information. This program emphasizes supporting scholars focused on interdisciplinary research, with a requirement of having two faculty mentors with different disciplinary expertise. For this program, the more interdisciplinary the proposed project and the more divergent the expertise of the two proposed advisors, the better. For example, a proposed research project with a faculty mentor with a seismology background and another with an igneous petrology background would likely be more favored than one with mentors with igneous petrology and igneous geochemistry expertise. Also Prof Till is an advisor for a present SESE Exploration Fellow (Dr. Daniel Portner), so while not impossible, it is improbable that an SESE Exploration Postdoc applicant applying to work with Prof Till will get chosen in the Winter 2021-2022 selection round, all other things being equal.
