During this PhD, you will undertake rock deformation and fluid injection experiments at laboratory scale to (a) understand the controls on and micro-mechanisms involved in failure and fault reactivation, and (b) optimise operational controls to minimise micro-seismicity.

Supervision: You will be based in the Lyell Centre Geoenergy Group at Heriot-Watt University under the supervision of Dr. Alexis Cartwright-Taylor, Dr. Elma Charalampidou and Dr. Nathaniel Forbes-Inskip and will collaborate with external supervisors Prof. Ian Main and Dr. Ian Butler at the University of Edinburgh and Dr. Maria-Daphne Mangriotis at the National Oceanography Centre.

Funding: The scholarship will cover tuition fees and provide an annual stipend (£18,622 in 2023/24), for the 42 months duration of the project, as well as research support and travel costs. Thereafter, students will be expected to pay a continuing affiliation fee (currently £130) to cover their continued registration whilst writing up their thesis. 

Closing date: 17 September 2023

The link for further information is here:https://www.hw.ac.uk/uk/schools/energy-geoscience-infrastructure-society/postgraduate-research/effective-management-of-induced-seismicity-for-the-net-zero.htm

Subject Description

Mining and Rock Engineering comprises mining technology, rock engineering and rock mechanics, including rock mass properties, design of rock excavations and tunneling as well as planning and production processes related to both mining and civil engineering.

Project description

The MRE group at LTU is expanding its research activities to encompass areas that are becoming significantly important to the Swedish mining industry and also globally. One such challenge is to seek alternative methods of underground mining with increasing depth. On a general note, the traditional mining methods are becoming unstainable given the ever-increasing demands for greener, socially, and environmentally sustainable mining practices, deep mining depths and compliance to international transparency standards. In the light of this, a fully funded postdoctoral position is created to investigate new ways of underground mining, under the theme Alternative Mining Methods. The position is jointly funded by Boliden Minerals AB and Luleå University of Technology through Sustainable Use of Natural Resources (SUN) program. The post doctor will work closely with the mining industry in Sweden to execute this project. Visits to mines in selected countries will complement the research. The case studies will focus on Boliden’s mining scenarios.

Further information

Postdoctoral position is for two years with placement in Luleå. Starting as soon as possible in autumn 2023.

For further information about the position, please contact: Associate Professor David Saiang. Tel: (+46)920-49 3407 or (+46)72-530 1072. Email: david.saiang@ltu.se

More information on that website: https://www.ltu.se/ltu/Lediga-jobb?l=en&rmpage=job&rmjob=7018&rmlang=UK

Final date for applications: 31 August, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

The Geotechnical Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK is looking for a highly motivated and talented individual to fill a Ph.D. student position. The objective of the project is to develop A Physically-Based Early Warning System for Landslide Hazards in the UK. We will implement high-resolution radar data, slope stability analysis model, machine learning techniques and probabilistic back analysis methods to establish a novel early warning system for landslide hazards on a watershed scale.

The student will be supervised by probabilistic analysis, lab testing, remote sensing, and data analytics experts in the team and have the opportunity to cooperate with leading researchers in the field. The student will work closely with industry partners to deal with landslide early warning and forcasting.

More information can be found on the following link:

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/a-physically-based-early-warning-system-for-landslide-hazards-in-the-uk/?p160028

Contact details for further information: xiaohui.qi@northumbria.ac.uk

I would be very grateful if you could pass on the link to anyone you think might be interested in the post.

Two, linked, postdoctoral positions are now available at Imperial College London and at Cambridge University to improve understanding of polymer support fluids.  The positions are funded by the UK EPSRC.

The position at Cambridge will experimentally examine the polymer conductivity of a range of polymer fluids in sand, while the position at Imperial College London will use computational fluid dynamics and pore network modelling to advance understanding of the fundamental interactions between polymer fluids and sand grains.

Details of the positions can be found here and informal inquiries can be made to Prof. Catherine O’Sullivan (cath.osullivan@imperial.ac.uk) or Dr. Brian Sheil (bbs24@cam.ac.uk).  Closing date: August 24 2023.