Assistant Professorship, University of Orléans, France. 1st Sept. 2017 Porous Media and Environmental Sciences
The University of Orléans seeks for applicants in the field of environmental sciences, who will help us move forward into the frontier areas of reactive transport modelling in porous media.
Anticipated areas of specialization are: contaminant risk assessment and prediction; phases interactions prediction for geological storage (CO2, nuclear wastes, industrial wastes); numerical modeling of multiphase flow (water, suspended particles, solutes, non-wetting fluids) in porous media and fracture networks; pore/fluid interactions from soil and vadose zone down to deep aquifers; hydro-mechanical and/or chemo-mechanical coupling. Advanced skills in conceptual and numerical modelling, expertise of characterization techniques of pores network and/or of interfaces properties, and/or of physico-(bio)geochemical experiments at various small scales (typically, pore(s), micro-models including lab-on-a-chip devices, abrupt reactive fronts), are a significant plus. Scientists with strong backgrounds in physical chemistry and physics who may employ unconventional approaches (for instance, synchrotron techniques), and/or with academic, national laboratory, industry backgrounds, are encouraged to apply.
The institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans (ISTO) is a joint research unit between University of Orléans, CNRS and BRGM, with 150 people, with about seventy University professors or CNRS and BRGM researchers, around twenty technicians and administrative support staff, about ten post-docs and fifty PhDs. Research is carried out within five main domains (Biogeosystems; Porous media; Metallogeny; Géodynamics; Magma). ISTO holds various analytical and experimental facilities (http://www.isto.cnrs-orleans.fr/), and a privileged access to a computing mesocenter (http://cascimodot.fdpoisson.fr/ccsc).
Inquiries regarding this position may be addressed to: Lionel Mercury, leader of the Porous Media group (Lionel.Mercury@univ-orleans.fr), and/or Bruno Scaillet, head of the Institute of Earth Sciences of Orléans (ISTO) (bruno.scaillet@cnrs-orleans.fr). Teaching: Yves Coquet, head of the Observatory of Earth and Universe Sciences in the region Centre (OSUC) (yves.coquet@cnrs-orleans.fr).