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.

A Postdoc position on Modeling the erosion of a granular soil with cohesion is open at IRSTA in Aix-en-Provence (France). See the attached pdf file for more details.

The Geomechanics & Geotechnical Engineering research group at Chalmers, led by Prof. Minna Karstunen, is looking for a motivated and talented individual for the position of PhD researcher in a Chalmers-NCC joint industry research project on geothermal foundations on soft clays funded by FORMAS (http://www.formas.se/en/) and SBUF (http://www.sbuf.se/). Continue reading →

The Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) offers a PhD scholarship in Offshore Foundations for Jacket Structures. More details at http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job?id=aa108867-cae9-412f-b546-8a10f0874d78.

A Postdoc position on “Risk-based Selection of Constitutive Models for Geotechnical Analysis” is open at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France. Fore more details, see the attached pdf file.

A post-doctoral position in Modeling of internal erosion by suffusion in soils is available at Grenoble University, see the attached pdf file.
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Open call for PhD position in geomechanics 2014-2018 “Finite element implementation and application of a hypoplastic model for unsaturated expansive clays”, Charles University in Prague, project supervisor David Mašín. Deadline for application 28 February 2014. More information at: http://web.natur.cuni.cz/uhigug/masin/phdposition/

The purpose of this research project is to investigate chemical and mechanical processes in porous media subjected to reactive transport. The project will employ small scale flow experiments, X-ray microtomographic imaging, carbonate geochemistry, and classical geomechanical deformation tests to quantify the simultaneous evolution of chemical and structural attributes (e.g., pore size, particle size, mineral constituents, etc.) during reactive flow and/or loading. The experimental activities will be conducted at the Northwestern University and at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), located at the Argonne National Laboratory. The main goal of the project is to relate temporal and spatial changes in microstructural attributes to chemical and physical macroscopic quantities (e.g., permeability, stiffness, strength, precipitation/dissolution etc.).
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University of Southampton – Infrastructure Research Group offers a position of Senior Research Assistant/Research Fellow in Numerical Modelling of Landslides.
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A post-doctoral position in Numerical and experimental cross analysis of the solid-fluid transition in geomaterials is available at University Grenoble-Alpes, see the attached pdf file.
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