PhD & Postdoctoral Positions, CNRS National Center for Scientific Research, France (2016)

As part of a new European ERC project, the University of Rennes (France) is opening postdoctoral and PhD positions on the study of reactive mixing processes in porous media flows. The project will investigate the dynamics of fluid mixing interfaces that create highly reactive hotspots of chemical and microbiological activity, whether in engineered or natural porous media. Applications include geothermal systems, CO2 sequestration, contaminant remediation, underground storage, filters or flow-through reactors.

Successful candidates will be integrated into a high level interdisciplinary team formed for the next five years to develop experimental and modeling approaches, including micro and millifluidics, 3D laser imaging, chemiluminescence, biophysics, microbiology, fluid mixing modelling, stochastic upscaling, field reactive tracer tests and biogeophysics. We are thus seeking candidates with expertise in these topics.

The project will benefit from an interdisciplinary environment through close collaborations between the geosciences, physics and biology departments. PhDs and postdocs will be integrated in the Rennes porous media group, which is one of the leading groups in this field in Europe, with numerous international collaborations and cutting edge experimental and computational facilities.

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