2 PhD Cancidates at S2S-FUTURE Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network

Applications are invited for TWO fully-funded a 3-year postgraduate research assistant positions that will also lead to the award of a PhD at the Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London.

You will join the multinational S2S-FUTURE Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network as an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and you will be employed as a research assistant at Imperial College. Simultaneously, you will also be enrolled as a PhD student. The training network ‘S2S-FUTURE: Signal propagation from source to sink for the future of Earth resources and energies’ involves Imperial College and six other European universities, who will recruit 15 ESRs in total.

The first position available at Imperial (ESR8) will conduct PhD research under the heading ‘Releasing the sediment cascade: understanding grain size as a record of mass transfer in source to sink systems’ The objective of this role is to improve our understanding of how fluvial grain size distributions in stratigraphy record the climatic and tectonic signals using self-similarity models and well-calibrated field examples.

The second position (ESR13) will conduct PhD research under the heading “How do Source-to-sink landscapes and systems impact patterns of human habitation?”. The objectives of this project are first: to constrain historical patterns of settlement on the Indo-Gangetic basin to understand the role of landscape evolution on the spatial distribution of urban development. Second: to analyse recent patterns of the spatial distribution of populations and their growth with relation to landscape in the Indo-Gangetic basin.