Position as Researcher available at Department of Geosciences
The position is for a period of 2.8 years.
Starting date is 01.03.2025 but can slightly change after an agreement with the appointed candidate.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
The applicant will work as part of a large 3 years project recently funded by Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CET partnership) on Unravelling fault properties and behaviour in CO2 geological storage. The project starts in December 2024. This international project includes many international partners: IFPEN (project international coordinator), University of Oslo, ETH Zurich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SCCS, UEDIN, Hydrafract, and TRACS international. University of Oslo is the national coordinator for the Norwegian partners including Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Shell Norge, OMV, and AkerBP.
The project is of strategic relevance for the CCS development in the North Sea as the project aims to close remaining gaps in understanding the dynamic changes of fault zones by providing new experimental results and modelling workflows.
The Norwegian partners would contribute with generating new data on fault geometry and properties, empirical relations and correlations between different fault rock properties, relevant for seal integrity and risk assessment. The appointed candidate is expected to work with fault data both from outcrop studies and reflection seismic data and contribute to the communication with partners.
The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition to be among Europe's leading communities for research, education and innovation. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.
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The following qualifications will count in the assessment of the applicants:
The following qualifications will count in the assessment of the applicants:
The application with attachments must be delivered in our electronic recruiting system, please follow the link “apply for this job”. Foreign applicants are advised to attach an explanation of their University's grading system. Please note that all documents should be in English (or a Scandinavian language).
In assessing the applications, special emphasis will be placed on the documented, academic qualifications, the project description (whenever this is required in the call for applicants), and the quality of the project as well as the candidates motivation and personal suitability. Interviews with the best qualified candidates will be arranged.
It is expected that the successful candidate will be able to complete the project in the course of the period of employment.
According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.
The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results a.o.
The University of Oslo aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.
For further information about the position please contact: Prof. Anita Torabi, [email protected]
For technical questions regarding the recruitment system please contact: HR-adviser Ørjan Pretorius, [email protected]