The Universite catholique de Louvain is looking for a Research Scholar in Geotechnical Engineering, starting October 2016 towards a PhD in Pile Dynamic Testing.
The applications should reach UCL by midnight tuesday 20th September 2016, at the latest. For details, see http://uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/gce/documents/phd_position_UCL.pdf or pdf.
A position of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering is available at the University of Edinburgh with closing date of 30 August 2016. Further details at: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=036787. An interest in Geotechnical Design would be particularly welcome.
A PhD position is available at the University of Sydney, see pdf.
Centre of Tay-GENE (Tayside Centre for Geotechnical Engineering in Natural Environments), a joint initiative between Abertay University (AU) and University of Dundee (UoD), is currently looking for three 12-month MSc (by research) positions to study the negative impacts caused by climate change on managed non-urban land, particularly for sloping ground, and to develop novel adaption strategies. Each position provides a stipend of £14,057 and tuition fees paid up to £4,036 to fully cover the tuition fees for students for Home/EU applicants.
Project 1 (Hosted at AU): Utilising crushed dolerite columns to stabilise unstable substrates using microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP): coupling ground improvement and climate mitigation – laboratory approach
Project 2 (Hosted at AU):: Utilising crushed dolerite columns to stabilise unstable substrates using microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP): coupling ground improvement and climate mitigation – numerical modelling approach
Project 3 (Hosted at UoD): Centrifuge modelling of natural geotechnical systems
A Post-Doc position on micromechanical modelling of multiphase granular materials is open at 3SR lab., Univ. Grenoble-Alpes. More details in pdf.
The deadline for the registration to the ALERT OZ course 2016 will be extended to 10th of August 2016.
The 8th ALERT Olek Zienkiewicz Course (ALERT Summerschool) on “Geomechanics of landslides” will be held at the University of Salerno from the 5th to the 9th of September 2016. This year, the OZ course will be jointly held with the LARAM school (LAndslide Risk Assessment and Mitigation).
Information on the OZ course can be found on the LARAM website. Please use the registration form.
A PhD position in Soil Dynamics is open at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. More details at http://www.ltu.se/ltu/Lediga-jobb?l=en&rmpage=job&rmjob=1960&rmlang=UK.
The registration for the ALERT Geomaterials Workshop and School 2016 is open now (the programme of the workshop and school is still preliminary)! (The registration is closed). Please read the hints in the registration form! After filling the form and pressing the button “Register”, a window will open with your invoice. Please print the window with the invoice for your records! You will also get an email with the registration data afterwards. In case of the registration of the ALERT members, the corresponding representative of the ALERT institution will receive the registration data too.
The deadline for the registration is the September 23rd! The accomodation in Aussois will be processed in the order of the registrations (see the hints in the registration form). Please note that the number of rooms in the CNRS “Centre Paul Langevin“ is limited.
See also hints on how to get to Aussois!
L’Université de Pau et des Pays de L’Adour (http://www.univ-pau.fr/), in collaboration with Ifremer (www.ifremer.fr) and Total (www.total.com), invite applications for a fully funded PhD scholarship. The proposed research will focus on the interaction between gas compressibility and exsolution and the mechanical behavior of host sediment in geological conditions.
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The 6th Biot Conference on Poromechanics ( http://biot2017.sciencesconf.org/ ) will be held just outside of Paris, France, at École des Ponts ParisTech and IFSTTAR, from July 9 to July 13, 2017. The Biot conference is organized only once every 4 years and is the main international event for experts in poromechanics. All topics related to porous solids that deform and contain one or several pore fluids are relevant. This edition will be held as a tribute to Olivier Coussy (1953-2010), who was the first recipient of the ASCE Biot medal. Deadline for abstract submission is September 15, 2016. Further details may be found on the attached flyer.