Two postdoc positions at KTH, Sweden

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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.

Seminar Prof. Alexander Puzrin at Politecnico di Bari

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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.

LARAM School 2023 – Application Call NOW OPEN (deadline 15 May)

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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:

  • an international application call,
  • the selection among the applicants,
  • the final certificate of attendance to the students,
  • mandatory interactive participation of the students (to receive the end-of-School certificate).

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 of the School will consist of 6-hour daily lectures and end-of-day tests.
  • One technical visit will be organized on Saturday 9 September morning.

The programme is structured into the following sessions:

  • S1, Introduction to landslides
  • S2, Landslide risk theory
  • S3, Landslide modelling
  • S4, Landslide risk analysis and zoning
  • S5, Landslide monitoring and mitigation
  • S6, Landslide risk management and risk governance

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

  • 40 selected PhD students
  • 10 registered Young Doctors (PhD defended not before 2018)

DEADLINE: 15 May 2023  <<<<<

  • Application of PhD students

https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/application_phd_students

  • Registration of Young Doctors (PhD defended not before 2018)

https://www.laram.unisa.it/school/2023/registration_young_doctors

REGISTRATION FEE

  • PhD students: 250 euro
  • Young Doctors: 400 euro

PARTICIPATION OPTIONS

  • in-person (standard option)
  • online (exceptionally allowed for motivated reasons)

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

One PhD position at IGT BOKU

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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.

11 PhD positions about earthquakes (from sourceprocesses to hazard)

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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.

https://tread-horizon.eu/

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)

PhD at Centrale Nantes and ULiège: Modeling unstable gas infiltration through initially saturated geomaterials

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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

PhD position at University Grenoble Alpes / 3SR laboratory

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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.

ALERT Doctoral School 2023

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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:

  1. Gain an understanding of what ML is;
  2. Study the most important ML methods for regression, classification and model order reduction;
  3. Follow the basic mathematical and geometric notions behind ML methods;
  4. Use ML in simple examples, get aware of pitfalls and understand the need for physics- & geomechanics-based ML methods.

Requirements for the students:

  1. Python programming language (for those who are unfamiliar with Python we suggest the book “Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming” by Eric Matthes, but many excellent tutorials can be found on the internet as well).
  2. Basic concepts in mathematics (algebra, analysis, elements of differential calculus and numerical analysis).
  3. Have some problems in mind in relation with their research and geomechanics that they believe that ML could help.

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.

ALERT Workshop 2023 – Call for abstracts

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The ALERT Workshop 2023 (33rd Edition) should be held in Aussois from 25th to 27th September, 2023. Abstracts can now be submitted for the sessions. Please submit your abstracts by email directly to the coordinators using the Workshop abstract form (doc). If you wish to publish your presentation after the Workshop on the ALERT website, do not forget to agree by ticking the corresponding box in the abstract form.

Since time for the presentations is limited, only a part of the submitted abstracts can be chosen for the oral presentations. Therefore, we invite you to submit your abstract as soon as possible. The presentation can also be submitted as a poster. The abstracts of the posters will be published in a separate booklet (ISSN registered).

The deadline for the abstract submission is May 19, 2023. For any communication about your participation to the workshops, please contact the coordinators of the workshop sessions directly.

Here is a reminder of the workshop sessions as well as a short description of each of them. The call for abstract is open for the Session 1 and Session 3 only:

  • Session 1: “Energy geomechanics”
    Organizers: Jean-Michel Pereira, Carlos Santamarina and Diego Manzanal.

    The use of the geological subsurface is gaining interest in various energy-related applications, covering energy recovery and storage. In these applications, the physical phenomena at play in the encountered porous materials include -often in a coupled manner- heat and mass transfers, multiphase flow, reactive transport of fluids, mechanics, etc.

  • Session 2: “Extraterrestrial geomechanics“
    Organizers: P. Delage and F. Prada

    The InSight mission, which landed on Mars in 2018, is a geophysical mission with a seismometer (SEIS) supplied by France and a penetrometer (HP3) supplied by Germany as its main instruments for measuring the thermal gradient on the surface.
    Thanks to the detection of Martian earthquakes (Marsquakes), the mission was able to improve the determination of the planet’s structure (radius of the core, mantle and crust), as intended. The seismometer also detected large meteorite impacts. The Near Surface Working Group is also interested in the geological and mechanical properties of the surface. They have studied the interaction between a Martian regolith analogue and the seismometer, and estimated in advance the elastic properties, with values close to those measured on site.
    The proposed session would be based on the participation of European scientists involved in the mission.

  • Session 3: “Anisotropy in geomaterials: theory, experiments and modelling”
    Organizers: Eleni Gerolymatou, Cino Viggiani, and Angelo Amorosi.

    Anisotropy, i.e. the variation of any given property of the material with direction, can have a significant effect on the material response to loading. It is present in most types of geomaterials, ranging from granular soils to hard rocks.
    Due to the significant effort required to determine in the laboratory the internal variables of the material and the additional difficulties linked to its constitutive description, it is in most applications ignored as a matter of fact. However, in the last years significant efforts have been made in both directions.
    With the present topic suggestion the organizers would like to invite contributions from researchers working on anisotropy in geomaterials in the fields of constitutive law development, experimental testing and numerical simulation. The aim is to increase awareness of the significance of anisotropy, to stimulate scientific exchange and to provide a first exposure to its intricacies for younger researchers.