Faculty position at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg – USA
The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Virginia Tech invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Geotechnical Engineering effective January 2020.
The successful candidate will contribute to the Department’s Geotechnical Engineering Program and demonstrate enthusiasm for collaborative and interdisciplinary research. Candidates should demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate instruction, specialized graduate education, sponsored research, and scholarly work. The CEE Department is comprised of 59 faculty members, with approximately 350 full-time graduate students and 630 undergraduate students. State of the art geotechnical research facilities are available, including the W.C. English Geotechnical Laboratory, field test sites, full-scale test facilities, and both on-shore and off-shore site characterization equipment.
The position is anticipated to be filled at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, but exceptional candidates will be given consideration for the Full Professor rank.
Review of applications will begin March 1, 2019.
More information at: https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/92776
Postdoctoral research positions at the University of Technology, Chengdu – China
The State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection (SKLGP), Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, is seeking several full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellows to join the laboratory research groups on experimental soil mechanics and rock mechanics. The posts are fixed-term for 24 months, with possibility of renewal up to three years, starting as soon as possible thereafter. The interviews of the selected candidate will be held around 1st of March, 2019.
More information at: www.earthworks-jobs.com/geoscience/chengdu19011.html
Giornata in ricordo del Prof. Pietro Colombo, Padova, 29 marzo 2019
I colleghi dell’Università di Padova hanno organizzato una Giornata in memoria del Prof. Pietro Colombo, scomparso nel settembre del 2016.
L’incontro si terrà presso l’Università di Padova (Palazzo del Bo’ ‐ Sala Archivio Antico) il prossimo 29 marzo.
Dopo i saluti istituzionali, nella mattinata seguiranno i contributi di alcuni colleghi che hanno a lungo interagito con il Prof. Colombo mentre nel pomeriggio sono programmati brevi interventi scientifici di allievi della Scuola Padovana, nell’ambito di temi di ricerca avviati dal Prof. Colombo.
Tenuto conto della capienza limitata della Sala, si prega di dare conferma di partecipazione prima possibile all’indirizzo e-mail: lorenzo.brezzi@dicea.unipd.it.
La partecipazione alla sessione pomeridiana verrà accreditata dall’Ordine degli Ingegneri di Padova con 3 CFP.
Programma: Giornata in ricordo del Prof. Colombo
Two Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions, Imperial College, London
There are currently two open positions for academic staff at the lecturer/senior lecturer level within the Geotechnics Section of the Department of Civil Engineering at Imperial College, London. The first position has an emphasis on experimental soil mechanics, while the second position is for someone with an expertise in ground investigation and / or engineering geology.
Closing date: 31 January 2019
More information at:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00640/lecturersenior-lecturer-geotechnics
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00641/lecturersenior-lecturer-geotechnics
Premio di Laurea “Marco Mucciarelli” – Scadenza 31 dicembre 2018
L’Associazione Gian Franco Lupo, “Un Sorriso alla Vita” – onlus di Pomarico (MT) ha promosso il “Premio Marco Mucciarelli” coinvolgendo l’Università degli Studi di Basilicata, dove ha insegnato; l’Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale di Trieste, dove negli ultimi anni ha diretto proficuamente la sezione “Centro Ricerche Sismologiche”; il CNR-IMAA di Tito Scalo (PZ) con cui ha lungamente collaborato e l’ANPAS dove si è dedicato con passione all’attività formativa dei volontari.
Il Premio, consistente nell’attribuzione di una somma pari a 6’000 euro, è stato istituito al fine di ricordare e far conoscere alle nuove generazioni la figura professionale, scientifica e umana del Professor Marco Mucciarelli, un grande uomo, che aveva nella sua semplicità e nel suo sorriso notevoli doti attrattive e comunicative. Si è dedicato con passione alla formazione dei suoi studenti trasmettendo amore per la ricerca.
Alla prima edizione del Premio possono partecipare i neolaureati con laurea specialistica o magistrale in Fisica, Geoscienze, Geologia, Geofisica, Ingegneria o materie affini che abbiano svolto la tesi di laurea in tematiche sismologiche, geofisiche e di ingegneria sismica, nell’anno solare 2018.
Termine perentorio: 31 dicembre 2018
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Two faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Dear Colleagues,
please find attached announcements for two faculty positions in the Department of Civil & Materials Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago: (1) tenure-track faculty position in Water Engineering; and (2) senior-level faculty position (Associate or Full Professor) in Structural Engineering (large-scale structural testing).
UIC – Water Engineering – Faculty Position
UIC – Large Scale Structural Engineering – Associate or Full Professor Position
Associate Professorship of Engineering Science (Civil Engineering – Oxford University)
The Civil Engineering research group at Oxford has an academic vacancy in the area of Geotechnical Engineering / Offshore Renewable Energy. The appointment is at Associate Professor level, which can be an entry level permanent appointment. In exceptional cases more senior staff can be appointed with the title of Professor. The post comes with a Tutorial Fellowship at St. Catherine’s College, with associated financial and other benefits.
The closing date is 17 January 2019. The advert can be found at the following link and more detail is in the attached further particulars.
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PhD and Postdoctoral research positions at EPFL, Switzerland
The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is currently looking for two PhD students and a Postdoctoral researcher to conduct research in THM testing and modelling of geomaterials as part of research activities on nuclear waste storage.
The positions are open as of January 1st 2019, or upon agreement. More information on these positions can be found in the attached document. Interested candidates should submit their application to recruitment.lms@epfl.ch.
ALERT Geomaterials – Newsletter
Segnaliamo la possibilità di iscriversi alla newsletter di ALERT (Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology) tramite l’apposito modulo del sito http://alertgeomaterials.eu/ .
The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology (ALERT) “Geomaterials” has been created in 1989 by Roberto Nova, Manuel Pastor, Ian Smith, Peter Vermeer, Olek Zienkiewicz and Félix Darve as a pioneering (at that time!) effort to develop a European School of Thinking in the field of the Mechanics of Geomaterials. The generic name “Geomaterials” is viewed as gathering together materials, whose mechanical behaviour depends on the pressure level, which can be dilatant under shearing and which are multiphase because of their porous structure. So, the “geomaterials” label brings together mainly soils, rocks and concrete. It has been obvious from the very beginning that there is a crucial need for a joint Graduate School in order to build firmly this European scientific group in the Mechanics of Geomaterials, in close link with the doctoral students.
The main areas of interest are
– micromechanics and constitutive modelling for geomaterials
– engineering, failure, strain localisation and instabilities
– large scale computations for geomaterials and geostructures
– integrity of geostructures and inverse analysis in geomechanics
– environmental geomechanics and durability of geomaterials
The core activity represents the annual meeting with ALERT Workshop and ALERT Doctoral School.
Maggiori informazioni su: http://alertgeomaterials.eu/
Borse di dottorato presso University of Strathclyde, Glasgow – UK (scadenza 25/10/2018)
Il Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering dell’University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland, UK) offre due posizioni di dottorato sui seguenti temi:
1) Clay micromechanics: from experimental evidence at the nano/micro scale to particle-scale modelling via Discrete Element Method
2) Engineering vegetation to stabilise geotechnical structures: developing open-air portable laboratory to design vegetation-based remedial measures
Durata: 3 anni
Borsa: £1230/mese
Scadenza della domanda: 25 ottobre 2018
La data di inizio è prevista tra gennaio e febbraio 2019. Si richiede un voto di laurea non inferiore a 104/110 (possibilmente 110/110). Per ulteriori informazioni, contattare il Prof. Alessandro Tarantino (alessandro.tarantino@strath.ac.uk)
