Before working at Cornell University, Dr. Saltiel worked at Seismological Laboratory in University of Nevada, Reno, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, as well as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Chile in Santiago. He received a BA in Physics in 2010 and PhD in Earth and Planetary Science in 2017, both from UC Berkeley, performing his dissertation research at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.