Research Fellow

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £35,880 to £45,163 with potential progression once in post to £47,874. Grade: 7

Contract Type: Fixed Term contract up to March 2025 

Closes: 10^th November 2024

We have a Research Fellow position to work with a multi-disciplinary team comprising civil engineers and environmental scientists across the University of Birmingham, the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and the British Geological Survey. The role is part of the STORMS – Strategies and Tools for Resilience of Buried Infrastructure to Meteorological Shocks project funded under the Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis on DAFNI call by UKRI. The aim of the STORMS project is to develop a comprehensive weather-related risk assessment framework for buried infrastructure and use the framework to understand the potential impacts of scenarios under both current and future climate. This project will also co-develop adaptation measures with stakeholders to increase resilience to extreme weather events and Climate Change. This is an excellent opportunity to develop computational tools that will have lasting impacts and working with a wide range of researchers and stakeholders.

Project Mission and Impact:

The STORMS project aims to proactively address the challenges of Climate Change by understanding its impact on buried infrastructure. We are committed to co-developing adaptive measures that will improve resilience against extreme weather conditions.

Main Duties

Working across the STORMS team, the post holder will be responsible for:

• Further develop and validate buried infrastructure risk assessment workflow on the DAFNI platform by integrating a range of models and datasets.
• Apply and further develop the SynxFlow hydrodynamic for simulating flood impacts on buried infrastructure.
• Support organising activities and engaging with stakeholders to co-develop resilience strategies.
• Contribute to writing project reports and journal papers.

Team and Reporting Structure:

• The researcher will be based at the School of Engineering, University of Birmingham. They will have the opportunity to assist with supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students and contribute to writing research grants.

Person Specification

• Hold a PhD in a subject relevant to the research area, or equivalent qualifications/research experience.
• High level analytical capability.
• Fluency in relevant models, techniques or methods and ability to contribute to developing new ones.
• Excellent ability of programming and handling large datasets using CUDA, C++, Python and Matlab.
• Experience of flood risk assessment.
• Experience of developing open-source hydrodynamic models, e.g., HiPIMS and SynxFlow.

Informal enquiries to Dr Xilin Xia E: x.xia.1@bham.ac.uk T: 0121 414 4297

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