Topic: Behavior of offshore wind turbines under seismic loadings (see also pdf file)
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Colorado School of Mines is currently conducting a search for the endowed Bruce E. Grewcock Chair in Underground Construction and Tunneling (UC&T). The search is open to highly qualified candidates at the academic rank of Full Professor. The UC&T program at CSM comes with substantial financial support from a Mines alumnus that can be used by the Chair to further the research, education, training and outreach activities of the program.
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The School of Civil Engineering at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, offers a position for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of Hydrogeology. The position is included in the Linkage Project “Multi-scale, two-phase flow in complex coal seam systems” funded by the Australian Research Council. More details in pdf.

A PhD position is available at the Charles University in Prague.
Topic: Thermo-mechanical modelling of unsaturated expansive clays
Project supervisor: Dr. David Mašín
Link: http://www.stars-natur.cz/open-calls/geology#nadpis4

A research fellow position to lead a three-year geotechnical Discovery project under Australian Research Council “Densification and Degradation of Ballast under Cyclic Train Loading” is available in Wollongong. For further details, see pdf.

The Laboratory for Soil Mechanics (LMS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) is looking for a Postdoctoral research fellow working on design and predictive modeling of real scale experiments for nuclear waste disposal. The foreseen activities include the implementation of advanced constitutive models developed at the LMS in a FE code and the implementation of 3D FE computations to simulate the repository behaviour.
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CSIRO is looking for a Senior Research Scientist in hydraulic fracturing in particular and geomechanics in general. Please see the attached flyer and the details at this link:
http://csiro.nga.net.au/?jati=b167ca29-7826-e2d5-743c-6e3f87d59483
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The University of Dundee has just launched its Dundee Fellowship scheme to appoint researchers of international quality in specially-targeted themes including Coastal Environment, Geotechnical & Offshore Engineering. All positions are permanent, with provision for exclusively research duties in the first 5 years; the appointments can be made at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor level, depending on the track record and experience of the candidates.
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The Czech Technical University in Prague – University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings offers six post-doctoral positions in the field of modeling, simulation, assessment and optimization of multi-functional materials and structures. For More details, see http://mech.fsv.cvut.cz/wiki/index.php/Department_of_Mechanics:_Vacancies:_UCEEB_Postdocs.