Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Uncertainty

(Tenure Track)

Delft University of Technology - Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Job description

Would you like to be our new Assistant Professor of Geotechnical Uncertainty?

Level: Doctorate
Working hours: 36-40 hours weekly

The Department of Geoscience and Engineering encompasses 5 sections: Applied Geology, Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics, Geo-Engineering, Resource Engineering, and Petroleum Engineering. Within the department there is considerable scope and encouragement for inter-disciplinary research.

There is an increasing need to quantify the performance of geotechnical structures and infrastructure within a reliability-based framework, so that risks can be explicitly quantified for guiding effective mitigation measures...

The position is proposed to investigate soil mechanical material behaviour accounting for uncertainties relating to, for example, measurements, statistics, transformation from measured to derived properties, and external (including environmental) loadings. It takes into consideration the random, spatial and systematic components of uncertainty, as well as uncertainties relating to the cross-correlations of material properties and multi-physical couplings, and develops new solutions to better control and reduce the geotechnical uncertainty and risk in geotechnical assessments and construction processes.