PhD Position in Surrogate-Enabled Uncertainty Quantification for Water Quality Modeling
7 dagen geleden
This PhD position offers an exciting opportunity to address the challenge of uncertainty quantification in reactive transport models for groundwater quality. The successful candidate will develop surrogate models tailored to reactive transport models and integrate them into an uncertainty quantification framework.
Key Responsibilities- Design and implement surrogate modeling strategies for efficient uncertainty quantification of reactive transport models.
- Evaluate and propagate surrogate model errors to improve uncertainty estimates.
- Apply the developed framework to real-world case studies in collaboration with international working groups in the field of water quality modeling.
- Very good Master's degree in a relevant field such as environmental science, environmental engineering, hydrogeology, physics, or applied mathematics.
- Strong interest in uncertainty quantification, Bayesian statistics, and machine learning techniques. Demonstrated experience in at least one of these areas is a plus.
- Familiarity with numerical modeling and scientific programming, for example using Python, Julia or R.
- Experience in modeling reactive transport in groundwater is preferred.
- Very good written and spoken English as you will be working in an international community.
- Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research involving experts from hydrogeology to statistics.
Doctoral candidates will be offered a 4-year period of employment in principle, but in the form of 2 employment contracts. An initial 1.5 year contract with an official go/no go progress assessment within 15 months. Followed by an additional contract for the remaining 2.5 years assuming everything goes well and performance requirements are met.
Salary and benefits are in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, increasing from € 2770 per month in the first year to € 3539 in the fourth year. As a PhD candidate you will be enrolled in the TU Delft Graduate School. The TU Delft Graduate School provides an inspiring research environment with an excellent team of supervisors, academic staff and a mentor. The Doctoral Education Programme is aimed at developing your transferable, discipline-related and research skills.
The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, discounts on health insurance, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.
About TU DelftDelft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.
At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and actively strive to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale.
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