Department of Mechanics: Vacancies

Academic positions

• CSIRO, Australia

CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering is looking for a Senior Research Scientist in hydraulic fracturing in particular and geomechanics in general. For details see this web site.

• Department of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling at Faculty of Environmental Sciences opens a new permanent full-time position of an assistant professor

Gross salary of 30.000 CZK per month (plus bonuses for publications in refereed journals)

Requirements: Ph.D. degree, publication activities in mathematical modelling of transport processes in porous media or in optimization and genetic programming

Contact: Michal Kuráž (kuraz@fzp.czu.cz)

Postdoctoral positions

• 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

Seven research positions in the field of modeling, simulation, assessment and optimization of multi-functional materials and structures

Application deadline: 1 December 2013

• Technische Universität Braunchweig, Institute of Scientific Computing, Braunschweig, Germany

Research topic: Advanced tools for uncertainty quantification and updating

Contract duration: at least one year

Contact: Anička Kučerová, anicka@cml.fsv.cvut.cz

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