Research Assistant/associate - Aachen, Deutschland - RWTH Aachen

RWTH Aachen

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Aachen, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

PhD position in Engineering Geology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany:

Contact:

Name:

Anja Dufresne

Telephone:

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Institution:

Lehrstuhl für Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie

Our Profile:

The Chair of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology of the RWTH Aachen University conducts research with 2 professorships and approx.30 employees in the fields of rock mechanics, landslides, tunneling and groundwater protection.

Besides the basic funding, the chair is financed by numerous national and international third-party funded projects. The chair is involved in the study programs applied geosciences and georesource management.

The project LADY - Landslide Dam properties Properties and Stability is an international research project involving scientists from RWTH-Aachen, TU-Delft (Netherlands), University of Iasi (Romania) and Chengdu Uinversity (China).

Your Profile:

Master's degree in a projectrelated discipline (e.g. applied geosciences, engineering geology, geotechnical engineering, hydrogeology, etc.)
Solid knowledge of engineering geology and hydrogeology
Experience in numerical modelling
Physical fitness to carry out field work
Excellent English language skills
Ability to quickly develop related research skills and knowledge
Creativity, flexibility, team orientation

Your Duties and Responsibilities:

The aim of this project is to understand why some landslide dams maintain stable lakes (for up to thousands of years) while others fail within minutes to a few months after formation.

Much is still unknown about the exact failure processes, and understanding of dam performance varies greatly among disciplines.

With this project, we aim to bridge this gap by bringing together expertise from landslide sedimentology, dam engineering, hydrology, and numerical analyses.

Detailed mapping of the dam will be combined with dam-engineering approaches, evaluation of the lake's water balance, numerical simulation of dam performance, and testing of a new hypothesis that may synergize the hydraulic criteria responsible for overtopping and piping failure into one process.

With this holistic, multi-disciplinary approach, we expect to deepen the current knowledge of dam failure processes and make progress in our understanding of dam failure.

Tasks

Review landslidedam databases and statistical analyses
Field work Romania and China including geophysical, geotechnical and hydrological methods
3dimensional numerical analysis of dam failure (back analysis) and forward analysis for stability prediction and assessing the critical parameters

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What We Offer:

The position is to be filled by 10/1/2023 and offered for a fixed term This is a three-year position.

The fixed-term employment is possible as it constitutes one of the fixed-term options of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (German Act on Fixed-term Scientific Contracts).

This is a part-time position (75 % of the standard weekly hours for full-time employees).
The salary is based on the German public service salary scale (TV-L).
The position corresponds to a pay grade of EG 13 TV-L.

About us:

RWTH is a certified family-friendly University.

We support our employees in maintaining a good work-life balance with a wide range of health, advising, and prevention services, for example university sports.

Employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements and civil servants have access to an extensive range of further training courses and the opportunity to purchase a job ticket.