Department of Mechanics: Vacancies
Academic positions
- University of Dundee, United Kingdom
- Professorship in Civil Engineering
- The successful candidate will have an established international research profile and a strong track record in attracting external research funding. While this is primarily a research-focused leadership role, the successful candidate will also contribute to the development and delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes and provide service to the national and international academic and professional communities.
- Contact: p.a.davies@dundee.ac.uk
- Application deadline: 20 April 2014
Postdoctoral positions
- Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
- A postdoc position on DEM modelling of the failure of dry stone retaining walls is proposed in LTDS, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.
- Starting date: 1 September 2014
- Duration: 12 months
- Contact: eric.vincens@ec-lyon.fr
- IRSTEA, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Modeling the erosion of a granular soil with cohesion
- Minimum duration: 12 months
- Contact: Pierre PHILIPPE, IRSTEA, Aix-en-Provence - pierre.philippe@irstea.fr
- SISSA, Trieste, Italy
- Two postdoctoral positions focused on Quasistatic and Dynamic Evolution Problems in Plasticity and Fracture in the group of Gianni Dal Maso.
- Application deadline: 10 March 2014
- Duration: 30 months
- Contact: assegni.ricerca@sissa.it
- Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
- Project: Risk-based Selection of Constitutive Models for Geotechnical Analysis
- Duration: 1 year
- Contact: Prof. Pierre Yves Hicher (Tel: +33 (0) 2 40 37 16 66, E-mail: Pierre-Yves.Hicher@ec-nantes.fr); Dr. Zhen-Yu Yin (Tel: +33 (0) 2 40 37 15 88, E-mail: zhenyu.yin@ec-nantes.fr)
- Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- The purpose of this research project is to investigate chemical and mechanical processes in porous media subjected to reactive transport. The project will employ small scale flow experiments, X-ray microtomographic imaging, carbonate geochemistry, and classical geomechanical deformation tests to quantify the simultaneous evolution of chemical and structural attributes (e.g., pore size, particle size, mineral constituents, etc.) during reactive flow and/or loading. The experimental activities will be conducted at the Northwestern University and at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), located at the Argonne National Laboratory. The main goal of the project is to relate temporal and spatial changes in microstructural attributes to chemical and physical macroscopic quantities (e.g., permeability, stiffness, strength, precipitation/dissolution etc.).
- More details at http://alertgeomaterials.eu/2013/12/post-doctoral-position-at-northwestern-university/
- Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
- The Division of GeoEngineering at Chalmers is looking for a dynamic and talented individual for the position of Marie Curie Fellow (Experienced Researcher) to work on constitutive model development, verification and validation, with focus on modelling rate-dependent behaviour of soft natural soils. The post requires an undergraduate degree in Engineering, and a PhD degree (or at least 4 years of full time research experience) in computational mechanics or geotechnics or a similar topic. For more details see this announcement.
- University Center for Energy Efficient Buildings, Kladno, Czech Republic
- Multiple research positions in the field of modeling, simulation, assessment and optimization of multi-functional materials and structures
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