Dear list members,

Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski of INSA Lyon asked me to publish this PhD 
position on the "urban-drainage" list, a request which I am happy to meet.

Many regards from ifak in Magdeburg/Germany

  Manfred Schuetze
  (Co-owner urban-drainage list)



PhD STUDENT POSITION

Context
The FP7 European R&D project PREPARED is dealing with adaptation to 
climate change of urban water systems (drinking water networks + 
wastewater and stormwater systems). See www.prepared-fp7.eu.
PREPARED is composed of several work areas, one of them (WA3) being 
devoted to monitoring and modelling. Significant progress in the 
performance of traditional urban water systems facing global change will 
require:
i) a better knowledge of the systems, both in fundamental understanding 
as well as real time control, which can be obtained only by better 
monitoring strategies and tools;
ii) better operation, management and planning which will based on better 
modelling approaches, at both short and long times scales.


The WA3 is a toolbox providing validated methodological, technical and 
software tool elements and components to be integrated and applied in 
other project work areas, explicitly accounting for uncertainties. It 
includes two categories of actions: i) actions aiming to test, 
demonstrate, validate and make available, applicable and usable by end 
users existing scientific knowledge which, until now, has not been 
implemented in practice; ii) research actions, aiming to further 
increase scientific knowledge.



Topic of the PhD thesis
The PhD work will be devoted to the development, testing and validation 
of metrological methods and tools applicable to urban water systems, and 
to their coupling with modelling. The research will focus on urban sewer 
systems. A special effort will be devoted to the assessment of 
uncertainties in both measurements and modelling, and to data and model 
validation techniques.


Expected profile
Master Student, with skills in urban hydrology and sewer systems, 
metrology, sensors, modelling, data validation. Skills in Matlab 
appreciated.



Language
Knowledge of French is appreciated but not
mandatory

Laboratory
LGCIE (Laboratory of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
INSA Lyon
www.lgcie.insa-lyon.fr

Work place
Lyon, France + visits to other project partners in Europe

Salary
1660 Euros brut / month
(index 402 in the INSA salary spreadsheet)

Supervisor
Pr. Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski
http://jlbkpro.free.fr

Starting date
As soon as possible (preferably April-May 2010).

Contact
Submit CV and letter of motivation to
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Dr. Manfred Schuetze
ifak - Institut fuer Automation und Kommunikation e.V. Magdeburg
Werner-Heisenberg-Str. 1
39106 Magdeburg
Germany
Tel.:   +49-391-9901470, -9901461
Fax:    +49-391-9901590
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Web:    http://www.ifak.eu,  http://simba.ifak.eu/
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