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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