Dr Michael Glinsky: Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader

Dr Michael Glinsky is the Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader for CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering.

• 26 February 2010 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements

Current activities

Dr Michael Glinsky's vision is to expand the use of high performance computing in the modelling of geological processes and the analysis of geophysical data with uncertainty.

Dr Glinsky, along with other researchers, will be supervising and mentoring a group of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to help them contribute to the achievement of CSIRO's research and development goals.

He looks to lead the discovery of the geophysical links between the mining and petroleum parts that form the CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Division.

Background

Dr Glinsky is a geophysicist with broad experience in quantitative seismic interpretation and computational geophysics.

In 1991, his doctoral thesis on temperature equilibration and three-body recombination in strong magnetic fields was awarded Best Doctoral Thesis by the American Physical Society (APS).

He next took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the US Department of Energy at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, California, where he worked on:

• x-ray and inertial confinement research
• seismic processing
• laser-biological tissue research.

In 1997, Dr Glinsky worked for Shell International Exploration and Production as an exploration geophysicist and senior research physicist in:

• seismic processing
• statistical pre-stack seismic inversion
• integrated handling of subsurface uncertainty
• petrophysics.

Dr Glinsky joined BHP Billiton in 2000. Here he held section leader positions in Global Quantitative Interpretation and Global Geoscience Technology.

While at BHP Billiton Dr Glinsky was awarded the 2004 CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement.

The award was for combining geophysics, geostatistics and reservoir engineering to develop new ways to find oil and gas deposits and was in collaboration with CSIRO scientists Dr James Gunning, Dr Jonathan Ennis-King and Dr Lincoln Paterson.

Academic qualifications

Dr Glinsky has completed a:

• Bachelor of Science in physics from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA, 1983
• Doctor of Philosophy in physics from the University of California, San Diego, USA, 1991
• Executive Education (Corporate Finance, Advanced Options) University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, USA, 2001.

Achievements

Dr Glinsky has been awarded a:

• CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement
• APS Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Work
• National Science Foundation Fellowship
• Department of Energy (DOE) Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• Laurence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Award for Outstanding Scientific Publication
• Albert W. Smith Scholarship.

Dr Glinsky has published over 28 papers and is a member of the following organisations:

• American Physical Society
• Society of Exploration Geophysicists
• American Geophysical Union
• European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
• Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG).

Find out more about our work at CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering.