Eileen Martin honored with Presidential Early Career Award
PECASE is highest honor bestowed by U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers
Eileen Martin, associate professor of geophysics and applied mathematics and statistics at Colorado School of Mines, has been honored with the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers who are early in their careers as researchers and show leadership promise in fields of science and technology. The White House announced the winners this week.
Martin was nominated for the award by the National Science Foundation, which recognized her in 2021 with its most prestigious award in support of junior faculty, the NSF CAREER Award, in support of her work to develop new algorithms for more efficiently analyzing large-scale continuously recorded seismic data.
A member of the Mines faculty since 2022, Martin holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Geophysics and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. Her research focuses on computational science to understand Earth's subsurface and how we interact with it, including near-surface, engineering, environmental and urban geophysics, analysis of large sensor networks, fiber-optic sensing, signal processing, imaging, and inverse problems, and data-intensive high performance computing. To support her research community, she teaches short courses on fiber-optic sensing, is part of the leadership team of the Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs, and chairs the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion committee.
Martin holds a PhD in computational and mathematical engineering and MS in geophysics, both from Stanford, and a BS in math and computational physics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Established in 1996, PECASE acknowledges the contributions that scientists and engineers have made to the advancement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and to community service as demonstrated by scientific leadership, public education and community outreach.
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