Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Kansas
Kansas City, KS
JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Kansas City, KS
POSTED
30+ days ago
The successful candidates will participate in the National Science Foundation-funded RII Track I EPSCoR project titled Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructure Driven by Social Equity (ARISE), conducting research on risk and resilience assessment in the face of natural hazards and supporting multi-disciplinary research on community resilience. ARISE enables research collaborations among a team of more than 70 faculty, students and staff across 18 partner universities and colleges in Kansas. Two postdoctoral researchers are sought to collaborate with this team of scientists and engineers to integrate modeling and experimental workflows across the project with a particular focus on water, stormwater, and wastewater infrastructure systems. Post-doctoral researchers will work under the supervision of Dr. Belinda Sturm or Dr. Justin Hutchison.
One position will play an important role in the project deploying recently developed water infrastructure simulation tools, including EPANET, EPA WNTR, and EPA SWMM, to assess community resilience using the community capitals framework. In addition, the post-doctoral research will lead data collection efforts of infrastructure systems in partnering communities for model validation. The post-doctoral researchers will leverage these computational workflows to evaluate established and proposed infrastructure enhancements in our community testbeds.
The second position will work to quantify contaminants of emerging concern, including microbiological and chemical hazards, relevant to the infrastructure systems. The data collected will be used to validate infrastructure simulation tools. Relevant laboratory skills of interest could include quantitative polymerase chain reaction, microbial culturing, advanced analytical chemistry techniques for emerging contaminant detection, and pilot reactor operation.
For further details on the research, scope, and position expectations, please contact Dr. Belinda Sturm or Justin Hutchison.
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