After leaving Yale, Sverjensky worked as a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, before becoming an assistant professor at SUNY Stony Brook.

Throughout his academic career, he has served as associate editor for Economic Geology and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

From 2005 to 2015, he was the senior visiting investigator at the Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

[1] Sverjensky is a member of the Deep Carbon Observatory’s Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community, where he also serves on its Scientific Steering Committee.

[3] Sverjensky is investigating the surface environments on early Earth using theoretical models of weathering and element mobility.