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Job opportunities

Five PhD projects and three two-years postdocs will be funded during the course of the project.

It is also possible to apply for support on short-term projects related to RheoMan and associated technical developments.

Applications must be sent by e-mail to P. Cordier.

Positions opened

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Short term visits

Partnership with NSF

  • Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW)

Through Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW), NSF Graduate Fellows are provided an international travel allowance to engage in research collaborations with investigators in partner countries located outside the United States. The french Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) is a partner agency of this program.

Duration: one visit of three to twelve months. The graduate student supported (travel) by NSF will be supported in France (living) by RheoMan

Deadline for 2014: january 8th

Highlight ERC (16 February 2013): Great interest from ERC grantees in hosting early-career top US talent

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Positions attributed

  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on " multiscale modeling of dislocations and plasticity in MgSiO3 perovskite " - (A. Kraych, started september 2012)

  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on " multiscale modeling of dislocations and plasticity in mantle transition zone minerals (wadsleyite & ringwoodite) " - (S. Ritterbex, started september 2012)
  • 1 Post-doc position (2 years, extended to 4 years) on dislocation climb at the atomic scale - (P. Hirel, started november 2012)
  • 1 Post-doc position (2 years, extended to 3 years) on dislocation climb at the mesoscopic scale - (F. Boioli, started march 2013)
  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on multiscale modeling of dislocations and plasticity in MgSiO3 post-perovskite - (A. Goryaeva, started september 2013)
  • 1 Post-doc position (2 years) on disclination modeling in olivine (X. Sun, started october 2014)
  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on modeling of creep in lower mantle minerals (R. Reali, started october 2014)
  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on modeling of dislocations and plasticity in mantle minerals at the atomic scale (Srinivasan Mahendran, started january 2015).

  • 1 PhD position (3 years) on " Adcanced characterization of plasticity in minerals by transmission electron microscopy ", funded by the University of Lille - (starting september 2015; the successful candidate is Billy Clitton Nzogang)

 

To support the RheoMan project, the University of Lille has open the following positions:

  •  1 professor position (28PR0208) entitled Modélisation multi-échelles de la rhéologie du manteau terrestre  in 2015  (the candidate elected by the committee in may 2015 is Philippe Carrez)
  • 1 assistant-professor position (28MCF1578) entitled Modélisation de la rhéologie du manteau terrestre  in 2016 (the candidate elected by the committee in may 2016 is Pierre Hirel)