Research Fellow in Offshore Geotechnics – TAILWIND

Organisation/Firm

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Analysis Area

Engineering

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
First Stage Researcher (R1)
Established Researcher (R3)

Nation

United Kingdom

Utility Deadline

12 Apr 2024 – 00:00 (UTC)

Kind of Contract

Different

Job Standing

Full-time

Is the job funded by way of the EU Analysis Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job associated to employees place inside a Analysis Infrastructure?

No

Provide Description

Civil, Maritime & Environmental Engineering

Location:  Boldrewood Campus
Wage:   £34,980 to £42,978 every year
Full Time Mounted Time period till 30/06/2027
Closing Date:  Friday 12 April 2024
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  2656924DA

We’re looking for a Put up-doctoral Analysis Fellow to work on the TAILWIND venture, primarily based on the College of Southampton, on a fixed-term contract of as much as 3 years.

The Analysis Fellow will help the event of latest anchoring applied sciences for floating offshore wind generators. Your function will focus totally on geotechnical centrifuge modelling of anchors and you’ll contribute to the event of simplified computational fashions. 

TAILWIND is a multi-disciplinary worldwide analysis venture, funded by the Horizon Europe programme, led by the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), in collaboration with 2 different Universities and eight industrial companions. The venture goals to drive down the prices of floating items and mooring programs by advancing key station-keeping applied sciences. TAILWIND will undertake sustainable-by-design approaches and guarantee scalability of the answer to fulfill the expansion demand for offshore renewable vitality. 

We’re looking for candidates with a background in civil engineering, ideally with expertise in geotechnical bodily, analytical and/or numerical modelling. You’ll be accountable for endeavor centrifuge testing of novel anchors and for supporting the event of a simplified computational mannequin, suited to built-in system modelling. 

You’ll be concerned within the holistic design of floating wind programs as half of a big crew with experience spanning mooring strains, floating platforms and anchors, with each educational and business views. You should have many alternatives to broaden your community, each in academia and business, by way of venture conferences, workshops and conferences. 

You’ll be primarily based on the new Nationwide Infrastructure Laboratory on the College’s Boldrewood Innovation Campus, and you can be embedded inside an expert community addressing the ocean challenges and decarbonisation as a part of the Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI). 

We provide a gorgeous analysis atmosphere on our new Boldrewood campus, the newest amenities and entry to a wide range of employees improvement alternatives. 

Extra details about the venture could be discovered right here: TAILWIND 

You’re invited to contact Dr Benjamin Cerfontaine ([email protected] ) for additional details about this place upfront of submitting your utility. 

Candidates are required to have a PhD or equal skilled {qualifications} and expertise in a related discpline*.

Equality, range and inclusion are central to the ethos within the College of Engineering. We give full consideration to candidates who want to work flexibly together with part-time and due consideration might be given to candidates who’ve taken a profession break. The College has onsite childcare amenities and we foster a great work-life stability. We additionally provide a mentorship programme and the varsity runs a women-oriented community occasion on a bi-weekly foundation. 

The College of Southampton is within the prime 1% of world universities and the highest 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. We’re dedicated to sustainability and being a globally accountable college, with the ideas of sustainability embedded into all points of our particular person and collective work, in our enterprise planning, policy-making, {and professional} actions.

*Purposes might be thought of from candidates who’re working in direction of or nearing completion of a related PhD qualification.  The title of Analysis Fellow might be utilized upon completion of PhD.  Previous to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Analysis Assistant might be given. 

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Firm/Institute

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Nation

United Kingdom

Metropolis

Southampton

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Southampton

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