A PhD position is available at the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (France) in collaboration with ANDRA, the French national radioactive waste management agency. Further details about the post and eligibility requirements are given in the attached pdf.
There is a multiple-position tenure-track faculty search in Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, see http://ceae.colorado.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-search/ . For those candidates interested in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics, and/or Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics, please consider applying.
An internship research position is available at IFP Energies nouvelles, Rueil-Malmaison Cedex (France). The goal of the internship is the development of the S-FEM (smoothed finite element method) in Code_Aster, the free finite element solver developed by EDF R&D (France) actually used in sedimentary basin hydro-mechanical coupling at IFPEN. The expected duration is 20 to 24 weeks. See the attached flyer for more details.
A Winter School on the modelling of variably saturated porous materials, aimed at early stage researchers (i.e. PhD students), will be held from 19-23 of January 2015. The winter school is organised and hosted by the University of Padua, Italy. A limited number of full grants is provided and funded by the MUMOLADE initial training network. For more information on the scientific programme, full grants, and registration please visit the winter school’s website or see the attached flyer.
A research position is availible at the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institut in Karlsruhe, Germany. The project deals with the processes at the interface between soil and free water, leading to bed erosion. German language skills are required. Attached please find the job advertisement.
A special session on Geomaterials will be organised during the 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics. The conference takes place at the Heriot Watt University from the 1st to the 3rd of September, see the poster of the session and the link to the conference pre-call: http://www.bssm.org/default.asp?p=6&event=186.
The PhD project – http://www.davidpconnolly.com/Hydraulic_fracturing_Connolly.pdf – is on hydraulic fracturing, combining experimental work and numerical simulations. It will be funded by the NERC CDT (Centre for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas).
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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 British Society for Strain Measurement’s (BSSM) 10th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics will offer industry and academia the opportunity to present current developments in experimental mechanics. It will take place at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2015. More details at the preliminary webpage.