Kaushik Pradhan

I am a PhD candidate in Geophysics at the University of Texas at El Paso and a final-year doctoral student, with expected graduation in Summer 2026. I am seeking a postdoctoral position starting August 2026.

My research focuses on seismic imaging and inversion of volcanic and geothermal systems, with emphasis on near-surface structure, fracture characterization, and attenuation.

My dissertation centers on imaging the Valles Caldera (New Mexico) using joint Bayesian inversion of ambient-noise surface-wave dispersion and H/V spectral ratios, under the supervision of Dr. Julien Chaput .

Through the NSF–DOE Geothermal Internship Program, I was funded to work at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where I worked with Dr. Hunter Knox and Dr. Parker Sprinkle on fracture characterization using coda-wave decorrelation methods applied to the EGS Collab experiment.

At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, I worked with Dr. Nori Nakata and Dr. Li-Wei Chen on seismic attenuation modeling at the Cape Modern geothermal field, using waveform envelope modeling to separate intrinsic and scattering attenuation and infer subsurface fracture heterogeneity.

I also working on Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data from Antartica in collaboration with Dr. Marianne Karplus .

Prior to my PhD, I received my undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, where I worked with Dr. Supriyo Mitra on Lg attenuation studies in the western Himalaya.

NSF–DOE Geothermal Internship Program feature: Geothermal Intern Experience