A research position is available for a highly motivated and talented individual with experience/interest in design and development of apparatuses for material testing in a collaborative project between Chalmers and Lund funded by Vetenskapsrådet (http://www.vr.se/inenglish). The aim of the proposal is to improve the fundamental understanding of fine-grained granular matter, such as quick clay, by experimentally studying the evolution of the structure of these materials on the micro scale for several controlled mechanical loading conditions. More details in the pdf file.

A Post-doctoral opportunity is available at GeoRessources laboratory, University of Lorraine, France, in the research field of Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes. Applications are invited for a 12 months contract to work on the development of original numerical approaches for the study of particle transport in preferential flows. More details in the pdf-file.

The 2-year postdoc position is part of an EPRSC (UK Research Council) grant that has recently been awarded to the University of Sheffield on “High speed granular debris flows: new paradigms and interactions in geomechanics”. More details at the webpage.

The position involves a 12-months contract at Deltares for the “Numerical modeling of impact and vibratory driven offshore piles with MPM”. The position is part of a larger project to translate field test results of monopile installation to sites with other densities and pile diameters using the numerical MPM approach. Supervisor is prof Frits van Tol from Delft University of Technology. More details in pdf.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for four full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty positions; all ranks will be considered. Information about the Department may be found at: http://cee.illinois.edu. More details in pdf.

The Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway invites applicants for PhD research fellowship in the field of rock physics. The position is part of the project “Shale Rock Physics: Improved seismic monitoring for increased recovery”, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council (PETROMAKS 2 program) and six industry partners. The project is coordinated by SINTEF Petroleum. The PhD research fellowship is awarded for a total of 3 years and the experimental work will be carried out at SINTEF’s Formation Physics Laboratory.
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The activity will focus on the mechanical behavior of reservoir sands; a strong background competences on constitutive modelling are expected. More details in pdf.

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University invites applicants for a tenure track faculty position in geotechnical engineering. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, soil-structure interaction, numerical modeling, geo-mechanics, retaining structures, geotechnical earthquake engineering and flow through porous media. This position is open to mid-career and senior candidates with an earned Ph.D., the ability to establish a well-funded program of independent and collaborative research, and strong teaching skills.
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There are two research positions – Postdoc and PhD – open in the Experimental Geophysics Group at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Germany. More details in the pdf file.

Aalto University (Finland), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites applications for Doctoral Student or Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Material Point Method in Geotechnical Engineering. The announcement can also be downloaded directly from http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/241/.