{"id":820,"date":"2025-10-19T17:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/?p=820"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:05:31","slug":"phd-opportunity-on-artificial-ground-freezing-at-lemta-universite-de-lorraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"PhD opportunity on Artificial Ground Freezing at LEMTA\/Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-1536x614.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine-1320x528.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Universite-de-Lorraine.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LEMTA invites applications for a fully funded 3-year PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, starting no later than December 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project will focus on the characterization and modelling of the thermo\u2013hydro\u2013mechanical behaviour of frozen soils in the context of Artificial Ground Freezing (AGF), a technique increasingly used for deep excavations, tunnelling, and temporary groundwater control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The successful candidate will perform laboratory investigations to quantify swelling and settlement during freeze\u2013thaw cycles, analyse microstructural evolutions using porosimetry and X-ray tomography, and develop coupled THM numerical models to predict field-scale behaviour. The work will take place at LEMTA (Universit\u00e9 de Lorraine, France), benefiting from state-of-the-art experimental and computational facilities, and collaborations within the EU-funded project UPGRADE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Artificial-freezing-of-soils-ang-final-2-28beab3598876e9b5d92890cbdf2231a.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Artificial-freezing-of-soils-ang-final-2-28beab3598876e9b5d92890cbdf2231a.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4f17e1fb-9924-4896-ba0e-9e6a487fee1d\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Artificial-freezing-of-soils-ang-final-2-28beab3598876e9b5d92890cbdf2231a.pdf\">Artificial-freezing-of-soils-ang-final-2-28beab3598876e9b5d92890cbdf2231a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Artificial-freezing-of-soils-ang-final-2-28beab3598876e9b5d92890cbdf2231a.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4f17e1fb-9924-4896-ba0e-9e6a487fee1d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><code>How to apply?<\/code><\/strong><br>Send by e-mail before 31 October 2025 April 2025 a CV (2 pages max), the MSc thesis (abstract only if it is ongoing), and the name of one referee to both supervisors:<br>Prof. Olivier Cuisinier<br>Olivier.Cuisinier@univ-lorraine.fr<br>Phone: (+33) (0)3 72 74 43 45<br>Prof. Farimah Masrouri<br>Farimah.Masrouri@univ-lorraine.frFarFar<br>Phone: (+33) (0)3 72 74 43 41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEMTA invites applications for a fully funded 3-year PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, starting no later than December 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,11],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship","tag-civil-engineering","tag-geotechnical-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarshipidea.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}