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Location

Douai, Nord | France

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Job description

Discipline: Computer science

Line Manager: Modesar SHAKOOR, [email protected]

Workplace: Douai, Lahure

Type of contract and duration: PhD thesis, 36 months

CONTEXT:

Public establishment belonging to IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom), placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, IMT Nord Europe has three main objectives: providing our students with ethically responsible engineering practice enabling them to solve 21st century issues, carrying out our R&D activities leading to outstanding innovations and supporting territorial development through innovation and entrepreneurship. Ideally positioned at the heart of Europe, 1 hour away from Paris, 30 min from Brussels and 1h30 from London, IMT Nord Europe has strong ambitions to become a main actor of the current industrial transitions, digital and environmental, by combining education and research on engineering and digital technologies.

Located on two main campuses dedicated to research and education in Douai and Lille, IMT Nord Europe offers research facilities of almost 20,000m² in the following areas:

- Digital science,

- Processes for industry and services,

- Energy and Environment,

- Materials and Processes.

For more details, visit the School’s website:

The position is vacant within the Centre for Materials & Processes where about 100 research staffs (including 35 faculty members) are performing scientific researches, cover different research fields about non-metallic materials (polymers, composites, cement and concrete, minerals, sediment) and their manufacturing processes, such as the development of advanced materials and processing technologies, circular economy and eco-materials, digital engineering ( ).

BRIEF:

Hydrogen based energy is an important pillar to meet future energy demands in a renewable and sustainable manner. The EU-project ECOHYDRO that will start in 2024 targets the reduction of whole lifetime costs of hydrogen storage technologies, the development of environmentally sustainable and circular storage systems, all the while ensuring the safety of the innovative hydrogen storage technologies, through the development of filament wound composite hydrogen storage tanks using high strength carbon fibres, low viscosity thermoplastic liquid resin and instant in-situ photopolymerization.

Within this project, involving 15 industrial and academic partners, the PhD student will focus on the residual lifetime prediction of hydrogen storage tanks. Other partners of the ECOHYDRO project will integrate sensors in the tanks for locally monitoring strains, temperatures, etc. The PhD student will develop an original digital twin approach for these connected hydrogen storage tanks. This twin should incorporate full mechanical fields (strain, temperature, etc.) tracking the conditions to which the tanks are subjected as well residual fatigue life estimations based on those fields. Original hybrid technologies will be considered by combining standard fatigue life prediction methods from the field of mechanics and new paradigms from the field of machine learning.

The PhD research will be supervised by Profs. Shakoor, Vasiukov and Chaki from IMT Nord Europe. Participation in teaching activities in mechanical engineering are possible up to a limit of 64 hours per school year for students who wish to pursue a career in academia. This position offers:

• A high-level and exciting international research environment in a renowned institution
• Being part of an international project team with a multitude of contacts in Europe and worldwide
• A PhD title after approximately three years of successful research
• A thorough interdisciplinary scientific education in the frame of a doctoral training program
• An EU-funded PhD grant
• The possibility to participate in local as well as international courses, workshops and conferences
• Participation in teaching activities, up to a limit of 64 hours per school year.

REQUIRED PROFILE:

• A master’s (or equivalent) degree in scientific computing, applied mathematics, or computer science
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python, and in machine learning
• Some skills in computational mechanics (finite elements, elasticity) will be an advantage
• Distinguished student, with special attention to research projects, master thesis and modeling courses
• Strong knowledge of English, some knowledge of French will be an advantage
• An open-minded attitude
• Team player, as she or he will be part the Centre for Materials & Processes of IMT Nord Europe and the research team of the ECOHYDRO project

CONDITIONS:

The job is to be filled as to September 1st, 2024 for a period of 36 month (temporary contract).

INFORMATION AND APPLICATION METHODS:

For any information on the missions, please contact:

SHAKOOR Modesar, Associate Professor, [email protected] ; +33 3 27 71 23 21

CHAKI Salim, Full Professor, [email protected] ; +33 3 27 71 23 51
VASIUKOV Dmytro, Associate Professor, [email protected] ; +33 3 27 71 24 48

For any administrative information, please contact the Human Resources Department: [email protected]

In addition, the position can be adapted for a disabled person.

DEADLINE DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 01/03/2024

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