Research plastic transport in rivers

CERIS Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainabilityis hiring (2) two PhD students to conduct field, laboratory and numerical research on river transport processes, including links between morphology, riverine vegetation and plastic transport and retention.

PhD program #1 is aimed at developing conceptual descriptions of the interaction of plastic fragments with vegetation in riverine corridors and plastic trapping in built or natural morphological structures such as lateral embayments or bars. This program will be supervised by Dr.  Ana Ricardo(https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9662-9633).
Candidates should have a strong background in Fluid Mechanics and Experimental Methods.

PhD program #2 is aimed at implementing Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions of the motion of particles in rivers or estuaries with applications to plastic transport. The transport models will be included in existing shallow-water solvers running in hybrid CPU-GPU architectures. Supervision by Prof. Rui M.L. Ferreira (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2941-0743). Candidates should have a strong background in Computational Fluid Dynamics and should be familiar with High Performing Computing, including coding in CUDA. They should also have knowledge of C++, Julia and Python.

The positions are funded for 36 months, in accordance to the Portuguese funding tables for scholarships (https://lnkd.in/giCHYJNm). The positions are scholarships, the values are net, no taxes apply.

For further information, contact ana.ricardo@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

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• Location: Lisboa, Portugal