Post-docs and PhD positions at the University of Southampton

We are recruiting 2 post-docs and 4 PhD students to offshore geotechnics projects at the University of Southampton.

Are you interested in the development of offshore wind energy and have a passion for geotechnical engineering? These projects are a great opportunity to contribute to the advancement of sustainable energy infrastructure while deepening your expertise in geotechnical engineering.

You will join a team focussed on anchoring for floating offshore wind, new ground investigation tools, reliability-based design approaches at wind farm scale and mapping the seabed challenges at future offshore wind sites. Help us to accelerate the energy transition!

You will collaborate with industry and academic partners in large projects: TAILWIND (EU-funded, led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Instituve, Dr Aligi Foglia and Dr Pauline Suzuki), Robocone (UK-funded, led Dr Andrea Diambra) or the UK-wide ORE Supergen Hub.

You will work in a dynamic team at the University of Southampton with Prof David White, Prof Susan Gourvenec, Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine and Dr Katherine Kwa, at the National Infrastructure Laboratory, equipped with extensive new lab facilities.

You will join the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging technologies Centre of Excellence for Intelligent & Resilient Engineering (https://lnkd.in/eHFmNqti).

The advert for all posts are listed below:

Research Fellow in Offshore Geotechnics – TAILWIND project (Post-Doc): https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=2656924DA

Research Fellow in Offshore Geotechnics – ORE Supergen Hub (Post-Doc): https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=2654524DA

Tackling the geotechnical challenges of floating offshore wind (PhD): https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM571/phd-studentship-tackling-the-geotechnical-challenges-of-floating-offshore-wind

Developing robotic ground investigation tools for offshore renewable energy and infrastructure – ROBOCONE (PhD):
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGM576/phd-studentship-developing-robotic-ground-investigation-tools-for-offshore-renewable-energy-and-infrastructure-robocone

Developing the next generation of ground anchors for floating offshore wind turbines – TAILWIND (PhD):
PhD Studentship: Developing the next generation of ground anchors for floating offshore wind turbines – TAILWIND at University of Southampton (jobs.ac.uk)

Efficient ‘Whole-life’ anchoring systems for offshore floating renewables (PhD): https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/efficient-whole-life-anchoring-systems-for-offshore-floating-renewables/?p162462

Researcher/PhD position at the University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

call is open to award one researcher/PhD student grant within the I&D Project INTENT – Intelligent health monitoring of road infrastructures using bender elements embedded in pavements, reference 2022.06879.PTDC, funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT). The recipient is expected to conduct research in the field of Civil Engineering/Geomechanics at the University of Minho, in Guimarães, Portugal.

The grant holder will work at the ISISE Research Centre, University of Minho, to develop, test and produce Bender Elements (BE) sensors taking into account a set of specifications defined in a previous Task of the project. Subsequently, these sensors will be delivered and installed for field tests aimed at the continuous monitoring of road granular layers.

Job:  Research grant for MSc graduates, with an option to undertake a PhD

Research field: Civil Engineering/Geomechanics

Stating date: April, 2024

Application deadline: March, 20, 2024

More information on this link.

PhD Position at Nantes University

The GEOMEC group of Nantes University (Heinlex campus in Saint-Nazaire, France) is currently seeking a PhD candidate for research on ‘Physical and numerical modeling of internal erosion in earth hydraulic structures’. We welcome applications from Master’s or engineering students who are interested in geotechnical laboratory testing and numerical modelling.

For more information, please refer to the PDF file

To apply, visit the website: https://theses.doctorat-bretagneloire.fr/sis/campagne-2024/modelisations-physique-et-numerique-de-l?key=P2B4FnkmwfkkdWpCRTsS9Wx7GT8M9MC6wJdhbZHXfpZXswkgj5cGhFKK

PhD Position at the University of Dundee

A fully funded 3-year PhD student position is now open in the Geotechnical group in the School of Engineering of University of Dundee (UK).

The PhD opportunity aims to quantify the uncertainties in the geotechnical design of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) and develop improved site investigation schemes for FOWTs. The developed framework will serve as a tool to economically optimise the effectiveness of site investigation for anchor design. This will enable improved (optimised) cost and risk estimations for different anchor concepts, thereby facilitating robust design decisions.

The candidate should have a background in Civil / Geotechnical / Geological / Energy Engineering. Contact: Dr Pengpeng He, phe001@dundee.ac.uk. More information on the pdf file.

Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Uncertainty (Delft University of Technology)

Delft University of Technology is seeking candidates for a new Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Uncertainty.

There is an increasing need to quantify the performance of geotechnical structures and infrastructures within a reliability-based framework, so that risks can be explicitly quantified for guiding effective mitigation measures. Of fundamental importance is the need to understand uncertainties and their impacts at the soil mechanical behaviour level and at the geotechnical site level, as an essential precursor to reducing the uncertainty in soil mechanical response as well as to understanding uncertainty propagation to the structure level.

The position is proposed to investigate soil mechanical material behaviour and geotechnical structure response, accounting for uncertainties relating to, for example, data, measurements, statistics, transformation from measured data to derived properties, and external (including environmental) loadings. The position takes into consideration the random, spatial and systematic components of uncertainty, as well as uncertainties relating to the cross-correlations of material properties, and it develops new solutions to better control and reduce the geotechnical uncertainty and risk in geotechnical assessments and construction processes.

More details can be found at link.

Last day for applications: 14 April 2024.

PhD Position in Geotechnics at University of Pavia (Italy)

A fully funded 3-year PhD student position is about to open in the Geotechnics and Engineering Seismology group in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia (Italy).

The PhD opportunity is part of the project DORIAN, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University (MUR) to the DICAr@UNIPV for its excellence. The goal of this important project is to study innovative techniques to improve digital modelling of the environment to design safe, resilient, and sustainable structures and infrastructure.

More information on the pdf file.

Researcher position at Uppsala University on Coupled Processes in Fractured Rocks

This Researcher position has a focus on developing advanced numerical models for simulating coupled multiphysical processes in fractured geological media. The simulation tools will be applied to study a wide range of geoenergy and geoengineering problems, such as nuclear waste disposal in crystalline/argillaceous formations, underground construction in dense urban areas, and hydrogen storage in fractured rocks. The project is for two years. The researcher is also expected to seek additional funding to continue the research or for related projects. The duties for this position mainly consist of: (i) performing cutting-edge research in the above mentioned areas, (ii) presenting results in leading international conferences and journals, (iii) supporting the supervision of PhD students as well as interacting with industrial partners, and (iv) undertaking 20% teaching. The deadline for application is 15 March 2024. Please see attached pdf file for details.

Post-doctoral Fellowships in Computational Geomechanics at Shandong University

Postdoctoral positions in Computational Geomechanics are currently open at the Geotechnical Engineering Research Group, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Candidates should have graduated with a Ph.D. within the last three years and have experience in developing advanced numerical methods such as FEM, DEM or MPM, for addressing geotechnical problems. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Prof. Kai Yao by emailing yaokai@sdu.edu.cn

The salary package could be referred to https://www.en.sdu.edu.cn/info/1169/7271.htm