Please find below the text for three announcements regarding fully funded PhD positions available at Loughborough University, UK. These positions are part of our prestigious Vice Chancellor’s PhD Cluster – RAINDROP (Resilient eArthwork INfrastructure: Diagnosis, RehabilitatiOn & Prognosis), which focuses on enhancing the resilience of earthwork infrastructure to climate change – https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/clusters/raindrop/.

Post-doctoral Fellowship positions in Machine Learning/Numerical Analysis in Geotechnical Engineering are 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 machine learning/numerical analysis in geotechnical engineering. Successful candidates will engage in interdisciplinary research in applying machine learning/numerical analysis in transportation geotechnics or offshore geotechnical engineering. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Prof. Kai Yao https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kai-Yao by emailing yaokai@sdu.edu.cn

For additional information, see the attached file.

Dear Colleagues,

Please find enclosed a PhD thesis position at ISTerre (University Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France)

Title: Influence of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Geomaterial Damage

Further information about the context/objectives and how to apply are given in the enclosed documents in French and English.

Dear colleagues,

We would like to advertise the following opportunities at Charles University in Prague.

– Two fully-funded PhD scholarships in geomechanics

– Support for applying for a postdoctoral fellowship (landslides, natural hazards) through the MSCA & CHARLESTON programmes

Please see the attached documents here and here for details.

Dear colleagues,

We are looking for a highly motivated student to work with us on the topic of “Microstructural and erosion behaviour studies of vegetation-treated soils of hydraulic earth structures for power generation systems“. 

The funding for this PhD thesis is two fold: 1/2 from the french ministry (CDE) and 1/2 from ShanDong University. More information can be found in the attached document, including email addresses to contact the supervision team and important deadlines for application.

There is an academic position in geotechnics open at Imperial College London at any level, i.e. from lecturer to professor. 

Because of the way Imperial HR works there are two separate advertisements for this:

Lecturer / senior lecturer:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=23257&jobTitle=Lecturer%2FSenior+Lecturer+in+Geotechnical+Engineering

Reader / professor:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=23254&jobTitle=Reader%2FProfessor+in+Geotechnical+Engineering

Interested candidates can contact Catherine O’Sullivan (cath.osullivan@imperial.ac.uk) with informal inquiries.

Gustave Eiffel University is looking for 2 highly motivated PhD candidates to work on the numerical and physical modeling in Geotechnical earthquake engineering :

• Optimisation of seismic design for soil-nailed walls
• Comparison of the seismic performances of rigid inclusions unconnected piles and pile raft foundations

The application deadline is the 16th of April 2025

Applicants must be available to start around 1st October 2025

Here are the links to these 2 subjects: position 1, position 2

For the contacts see the details of the positions.