Research Fellow in Resilience Engineering for Disaster Risk Reduction

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University College London (UCL)

UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Built Environment, Brain Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Education, Laws, Life Sciences, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Social and Historical Sciences.

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This Post is for a Research fellow joining the UNESCO Chair in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering team, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering/unesco-chair-in-drr-and-re , within the Faculty of Engineering Sciences (FES, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/engineering ) at University College London (UCL). As a multi-disciplinary university, UCL (www.ucl.ac.uk ) has around 25,000 undergraduates and 25,000 postgraduates, with degree programmes in Arts & Humanities, Engineering Sciences, Education, Laws, etc. The ethos of FES is to bring discoveries closer to the people who need them.

The vision of the UNESCO Chair in DRR & RE is to co-create a common culture of resilience and sustainability, based on engineering principles, to deliver safer social and critical infrastructure in vulnerable communities.

About the role

The role will run initially for two years, extendable to three.

The successful candidate will be able to support and contribute to the activities of the UNESCO Chair developing independent cutting-edge research in the field of Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Engineering. The role is highly inter-disciplinary, creating an opportunity to work across structural and seismic engineering, system analysis and applications of artificial intelligence, collaborating with social scientists and urban development academics.

Note: Appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Grade 6B (salary £ 39,807 - £ 42,891 per annum inc. London weighting) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of the PhD award).

About you

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate the following criteria:

• PhD, or MSc with a strong expectation of a PhD shortly, in Seismic Engineering or related topic.
• Working experience and knowledge of nonlinear numerical modelling of structure and infrastructure exposed to multi-hazards conditions
• Working experience of advanced programming using python, MATLAB, etc.
• Ability to support organisation of webinars and remote and in person training activities
• Publications in Q1 journals on the above topics

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details. If you have any queries about the role or application process, please contact the Engineering staffing team.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer great benefits. Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

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