Postdoc position on earthquake and volcano research at Sichuan University
Chaovite Liang
Dear colleagues,
Please forward this postdoc opportunity to potential candidates.
Thank you and kind regards,
Chao Liang
Assistant Professor
Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR)
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Personal website: https://chaovite.mysxl.cn (Chinese), IDMR webpage
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=K3vcBCUAAAAJ&hl=en
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The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, plans to recruit one postdoc researcher working on modeling earthquake or volcano processes.
The successful candidate will be hired by IDMR and primarily based in Chengdu, but is expected to carry out international collaboration between IDMR at Mainland China, Geoazur Laboratory in France, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Travel support will be provided for visiting France and Hong Kong regularly from Chengdu.
The candidate who is interested in earthquake related topics, including but not limited to dynamic rupture modeling or inversion, earthquake cycle modeling, or seismic/acoustic wave propagation, etc., is expected to collaborate with Dr. Chao Liang at IDMR and Dr. Jean-Paul Ampuero at Geoazur in France.
The candidate who is interested in volcano related topics, including but not limited to magma oscillation and convection in plumbing systems, storage and migration of volatile in magmatic systems, bubble dynamics and volcano acoustics, dike propagation, and volcano seismicity, is expected to collaborate with Dr. Chao Liang at IDMR and Dr. Yan Zhan at the CUHK.
Successful candidates are expected to have experience and publication record in related areas, good programming skills in scientific computing or signal processing, good written and oral communication skills in English, and a proactive attitude for publishing scientific results in high-quality peer-reviewed journals.
The appointment is initially for two years and may be renewed to the third year depending on performance. The salary ranges from 200,000 to 250,000 CNY (26,000 - 33,000 euros) per year with possible additional subsidy from provincial governments. Outstanding postdocs also have the opportunity of being further promoted to faculty positions at Sichuan University.
Please send the following materials for application or inquiries by email to Chao Liang (chao...@gmail.com), with copy to Jean-Paul Ampuero (amp...@geoazur.unice.fr) or Yan Zhan (yan...@cuhk.edu.hk):
(1) a letter of motivation including possible start dates,
(2) a CV including the list of scientific publications and conference communications and at least 2 references (their name, address, email, and professional relation)
(3) a brief description of your research activities, interests and future plans.
IDMR is an interdisciplinary research institute that focuses on hazard mitigation and research with a growing development in the field of Earth science. It is affiliated to Sichuan University, one of the top universities in China. It is located in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, the home of great pandas. Sitting in the east edge of Himalaya, Sichuan is one of the most tectonically active places on Earth and a natural laboratory for earthquake research.
An introduction of Geoazur:
Geoazur is a large academic research laboratory (about 180 people) focused on Earth science. It is located near Nice, France, in Sophia-Antipolis, a leading European technology park (2,500 companies and 4,500 researchers) between the Mediterranean Sea and the Maritime Alps mountains. Geoazur is part of Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) and Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) and is also affiliated to CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and IRD (French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development).
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) a public research university, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is Hong Kong’s second-oldest university. The university operates in both English and Chinese. Four Nobel laureates are associated with the university, and it is the only tertiary institution in Hong Kong with recipients of the Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal and Veblen Prize sitting as faculty in residence. The Earth System Science Programme in the Faculty of Science emphasizes basic sciences of the Earth System. Adoption of a system approach facilitates a fundamental understanding of various components of the Earth System and their complex interactions including the causes, effects and feedback within a unified framework.