A position of the Lecturer in Geomechanics is open at the University of Southampton in the Infrastructure Research Group.
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Lecturer in Geomechanics at the University of Southampton
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PhD position at The University of Sydney
PhD opportunity in the research field physics of landslides is available at School of Civil Engineering of The University of Sydney. Applications are invited for a three years PhD scholarship in the field of geomechanics and landslide engineering.
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ALERT Workshop 2014 – extended deadline
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the Sessions 2 and 3 of the ALERT Workshop 2014 (25th Edition) has been extended up to May 31, 2014! Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc, odt, pdf). The submission of the abstracts for the Session 1 is closed!
Session 2 (Tuesday, September 30)
Railway geomechanics
Coordinators: Antonis Zervos and Farhang Radjai
(a half-day exploratory workshop)
Session 3 (Wednesday, October 1)
Multiphysics coupling
Coordinators: Robert Charlier, Lorenzo Sanavia and Jean Vaunat
The presentation can also be submitted as a poster.
PhD position at Grenoble Alpes University
A PhD subject on the “Mechanical response of soils subjected to an internal erosion process: effect of the degradation of the micro-structure” is offered by the 3SR laboratory in collaboration with IRSTEA (France). The PhD and the application proccess are described in the attached pdf file.
Research position at The University of Texas at Austin
The Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin (UT) invites applications for a research position in the area of Geomechanics. We look for expertise in geomechanical numerical modeling and soil/rock mechanics, and experience modeling fluid flow in conjunction with large deformations. For more details, please see attached pdf.
Video ALERT Special Lecture 2013 available online
The presentation of the ALERT Special lecture 2013 by Ronaldo Borja is now available online. The title of his lecture was Triggering a shear band in heterogeneous
porous media.
Faculty position in Geo-Energy at EPFL
A position in “Geo-Energy” is open at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL, see https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/3981. Topics of interest are covering experimental, theoretical or computational mechanical approaches for large-scale engineered geo-energy systems; porous media multiphase flow modelling with a focus on injection and retention of CO2 in geological repositories as well as underground unconventional resource recovery.
Obituary on Prof. Pierre Foray
Pierre Foray, Professor Emeritus of Grenoble INP passed away on March 24, 2014 after a long battle with cancer. His death a few years after his retirement has saddened many people including his former students, colleagues, and friends. Pierre is well known in the Geotechnical community in France and abroad. The ALERT-Geomaterials community has lost an extraordinary individual with his passing. Continue reading
Professorship in Civil Engineering, University of Dundee, UK
The University of Dundee wishes to appoint a Chair in Civil Engineering as part of its strategic investment in Civil Engineering. Continue reading
PhD position in Graz, Austria
A three year Ph.D. position is available at the Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Science within the frame of an ASAP10 project Modelling of dynamic penetration in granular soils under space conditions. More details in the pdf file.