Post Doctoral Research Associate in Hydraulic/Hydrological Modelling for Digital Twins

The put up might be based mostly within the Power and Atmosphere Institute, which was established on the College of Hull in late 2016. The Institute imaginative and prescient is to be an internationally main centre for analysis on the interfaces between power and environmental resilience; with a give attention to international sustainability challenges and delivering analysis that makes a distinction. The Institute has three main objectives: to analysis and uncover; to innovate and ship impression; and to behave as a regional anchor and beacon for world main analysis and information alternate.

The profitable candidate will play a key position in growing the transformation layer of the Digital Twin.  

This transformation part of the Digital Twin might be constructed inside one mannequin framework based mostly on the prevailing CAESAR-Lisflood (CL) mannequin and the BGS CL port, CLIDE, which integrates distributed water partitioning / recharge and groundwater fashions. Particularly, floor hydraulics are modelled by way of Lisflood-FP in CL/CLIDE and the groundwater part relies on ZOODRM, which is calibrated utilizing overland circulation at gauging stations. Mannequin outcomes might be validated with floor water observations in addition to from a sensor community and people derived catchment-wide from Earth Statement. This mannequin will enable Earth Statement and sensor knowledge (rainfall, groundwater, circulation knowledge) to work together by way of mannequin, enabling flooding situations to be explored an forecasts made.

The Put up Doctoral Analysis Affiliate will even work intently with the undertaking companions on the British Geological Survey and Imperial faculty who will develop the digital infrastructure and requirements required to maneuver, retailer and assess and homogenise knowledge, and combine these with sensor networks, numerical fashions and evaluation. 

It’s anticipated that the individual appointed to this put up could have information and understanding and expertise of utilizing and ideally growing hydraulic and hydrological fashions. Previous expertise utilizing CAESAR-Lisflood, CLIDE or ZOODRM can be fascinating, as would expertise of working with massive and complicated knowledge units.  

This place might be managed by Prof Tom Coulthard and the appointee will even collaborate and work with exterior companions within the undertaking. They might be required to journey to conduct fieldwork or to exterior organisations to attend conferences/ conferences/workshops regarding the undertaking. There’s the chance the place might be prolonged to fifteen months if a undertaking time extension is given by the funders.

In your protecting letter please refer on to the standards, given within the individual specification on the Job Description. Purposes are assessed by the choice panel in keeping with these standards.

To debate this position please contact Prof. Tom Coulthard: [email protected]