Dear ALERT members,
Please find attached our Spring 2023 Newsletter. This newsletter sums up the activities of ALERT Geomaterials in the past year, and presents the new activities taking place in Aussois in the end of September.
The newsletters of recent years can be found in the archive.
See you soon in Aussois !
At KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (Sweden), the Division of Soil and Rock Mechanics is searching for two postdocs to be employed in the group. The postdocs will be working in a joint research project connected to the implementation of the 2nd generation of Eurocode 7 to design of rock tunnels and hydropower dams. These two types of structures are not within the scope of the present Eurocode. A substantial work is therefore needed to ensure that the 2nd Eurocode generation and its practical application provide acceptable safety to such structures for Swedish geotechnical conditions. Concerning tunnels in rock, the research project aims to develop a scientific basis for the writing of a potential completely new part of Eurocode 7 on design of rock tunnels. Concerning hydropower dams, the research project aims to facilitate a cost-effective implementation of the 2nd generation of Eurocode 7 to dam foundations on rock. Applicability to hard crystalline rock shall be considered, as such geological conditions are very common in Scandinavia.
The vacancy ad and further details about the project and the employment can be found here: https://www.kth.se/en/api/2.61673/what:job/jobID:622699/where:4/
Last application date is 31 May 2023.
Cornell University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to start in Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, with expertise in at least two of the following areas: computational mechanics, poromechanics, homogenization and deep learning. The flyer attached explains the details of the open position.
Dear Colleagues,
on Thursday 4 May 2023, at 15:30 CET, Prof. Alexander Puzrin, Head of the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich, will deliver a seminar entitled:
“Has science solved one of hystory’s greatest adventure mysteries?”
The seminar is organised by the Geotechnical Research Group of DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, and will be held in presence at Politecnico di Bari.
Please see the attached file for further details.
Dear All,
The LARAM School 2023 (https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/2023) will be held from Monday 4 to Friday 15 September, in person @ Salerno city centre (Palazzo della Provincia), with a few students connected online.
After the pandemic period, we came back to the traditional schedule of the School, with the lectures and other activities starting at 9:00 a.m. CET.
As traditionally done, the LARAM School will be based on:
LECTURERS
The Lecturers, most from the LARAM Scientific Committee (https://www.laram.unisa.it/laram/sc_committee), are listed at: https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/lecturers.
PROGRAMME
The programme is structured into the following sessions:
The provisional programme of LARAM School 2023 is available at: https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/lecturers.
The programmes of all the previous Editions since 2006 are available at https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/index.
PARTICIPANTS
DEADLINE: 15 May 2023 <<<<<
https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/application_phd_students
https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/registration_young_doctors
REGISTRATION FEE
PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
SELECTION
The selection of the participants will be based on an evaluation of the candidate’s curriculum – including academic performance, previous research experience and publications – and on the content of the recommendation letter(s) in relation to the PhD year, the field of expertise and the research topic.
Note. In exceptional cases, it will be allowed that some extra students, additional to the 40, will attend remotely, but only for documented reasons. For those candidates, the application is still mandatory, and participation will be allowed upon selection. While uploading the CV, include also a page explaining the reasons for remote participation.
The list of selected students will be issued by the end of May 2023.
Best regards,
LARAM Team
A fully funded PhD position for research in modelling fast granular flow is now open at Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU), Vienna, Austria. The successful candidate will perform numerical simulation and laboratory tests.
More information about the position and guide for the application process:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/97978
The application deadline is 10.05.2023.
Dear colleagues,
We are currently recruiting 11 Ph.D. candidates across several European Universities, including at LMU Munich, within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “TREAD: daTa and pRocesses in sEismic hAzarD”.
ITN network PhD positions include various benefits including industry internships, summer schools, a strong international cohort and cross-institute collaboration.
The topics range from dynamic rupture modelling to fault mechanics; from structural geology to machine learning and more, all in the context of seismic hazard.
Each of the 11 positions is described in more detail on this page (https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/59623), where interested students can directly apply. We aim to start all PhD positions between September and November 2023.
Extended deadline for applications: April 30, 2023
Please help us spread the word to all next generation earthquake scientists,
Kind regards,
Giulio (and Lucilla, Ylona, Alice, Bruno, André and Men-Andrin)
The detailed subject is presented in the attached file.
The PhD will be carried out at Ecole Centrale de Nantes and Université de Liège under the co-supervision of Giulio SCIARRA, Frédéric COLLIN and Panagiotis KOTRONIS.
To apply, please follow the link https://theses.doctorat-bretagneloire.fr/sis/campagne-2023/modelisation-de-la-percolation-instable/++add++Candidate
A PhD position is currently open at University Grenoble Alpes / 3SR laboratory, for the multiscale study of the temperature-dependent behavior of cement-based materials. Please find attached a file that contains all the details about this opportunity, including the project objectives, application process and contact details.
The successful candidate will work on developing advanced computational models for the characterization of the behavior of cement-based materials under high-temperature conditions. The research team is seeking a highly motivated candidate with a strong background in material science, mechanics, civil engineering or a related field.
The ALERT Doctoral School 2023 will take place from the 28th September to 30th September 2023.
The theme is “Machine Learning (ML) in Geomechanics”, and the school is coordinated by Ioannis Stefanou and Félix Darve.
The objective of this doctoral school is to explain what Machine Learning is, what its main methods are and how can it be used for solving real-case problems in geomechanics, in particular, and in solid mechanics, in general. Lectures and hands-on exercises using regression and classification ML methods, supervised and unsupervised ML techniques, Artificial Neural Networks, deep learning and model reduction techniques will be taught.
The students will:
Requirements for the students:
For those interested in participating in the doctoral school, a short poll is available in order to get some information about your expectations from this school and ML: see the poll here.
The online registration for the ALERT School will open in July and will be announced on the website.