The Geotechnics Research Group at the University of Dundee is currently looking for 4 PhD opportunities working on the following topics:

Innovative use of Thermal Piles as heat storage to enhance Embankment Performance
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=51187&LID=2507,​ or see attached file 1.

ISGCUBIP: Investigation of the critical SG for cables and umbilicals during various backfilling and installation processes
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=54892&LID=2507
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2014

The use of stone columns as mitigation of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=46222&LID=2507

Enhanced mechanical strength of vegetated soil through transpiration
Further details please find: http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=55139&LID=2507, or see attached file 2.
Deadline for applications: 25 July 2014

Monash Geomechanics group at Monash University, Australia is looking for a postdoctoral candidate. For further details, please visit: http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=525066&stp=AW&sLanguage=en.

The University of Florence has published a call for candidatures to a 3‐years PhD Course. The Course is run jointly by the Univ. of Florence (Italy), in consortium with University of Pisa, University of Perugia, and the TU Braunschweig (Germany) and leads to a jointly recognised Ph.D. title in both countries. More details in the call.

A PhD opportunity in the research field of Hydrodynamics and Transport Processes is available at GeoRessources Laboratory / University of Lorraine in Nancy, France. Applicants are invited for a three years PhD scholarship in the field of hydro-geomechanics. More details in the attached file.

A post-doctoral position is available in multiphasic transport modelling and remediation process at the Université de Lorraine, France. More details in pdf.