ALERT PhD Prize 2014

The Bureau of ALERT Geomaterials has decided to fund the ALERT PhD Prize 2014. The participation to the prize is open to all the PhD students coming from institutions belonging to ALERT, that have discussed their PhD thesis before December 31, 2013. The deadline for sending the dossiers is May 31, 2014.

The rules and further details are to be found on the Alert website:
https://alertgeomaterials.eu/alert-phd-prize/

PhD position at the University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (UK), in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), is seeking a full time PhD researcher with research interests in mechanics of soils and granular media, particle technology and computational mechanics to work on “Behaviour of dense granular systems: predicting flow regimes for bulk material handling”, within the EU funded Marie Curie Initial Training Network T-MAPPP – Training in Multiscale Analysis of multi-Phase Particulate Processes (http://www.t-mappp.eu). See the attached pdf file or http://www.t-mappp.eu/esr-11.html for more details.