One fully financed (salary and research founds) PhD position funded by the European Research Council is available at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). The contract will be for 42 months with the possibility to obtain a 6 months renewal.
The doctoral candidates will be part of the group of Volcanology and Petrology
(http://cms.unige.ch/sciences/
Deadline
Application will be accepted until September 31st 2016.
The successful candidate will start (latest) in April 2017.
Project Title
Forecasting the recurrence rate of volcanic eruptions (FEVER)
Summary
Volcanic eruptions occur with a frequency that is inversely proportional to their magnitude. Datasets of natural volcanic events, currently used to determine the recurrence rate of volcanic eruptions, are intrinsically biased. Combining physical modelling of processes with detailed statistical analysis has been demonstrated essential for assessing reliably the recurrence rate of natural hazards, such as floods and earthquakes. This would be the first attempt to apply a similar, integrated approach to explosive volcanic eruptions.
Methods
The successful candidate will carry out fieldwork on Nevado del Ruiz volcano (Colombia) and sample the products of up to 9 eruptions spanning the entire eruption history of this volcano. Petrographic, geochemical and geochronological analyses of the collected samples will be used to constrain the thermal and chemical evolution of this magmatic system and identify the processes responsible for eruptions of different magnitudes from the same volcanic center. The data will be integrated with the analysis of existing datasets (geochemistry and recurrence rate of eruptions) both for Colombia and other volcanic regions on Earth to produce a physics-based model quantifying the probability of eruptions of different magnitudes to occur at regional and global scale.
The University of Geneva offers a wide range of state-of-the-art analytical facilities that will be fully available within the framework of FEVER.
Requirements
The applicant should have a master degree and a strong background in petrology and/or geochronology. The students will be integrated in a dynamic research group and only highly motivated candidates will be considered for this position.
The interested applicants should send a CV, academic record, a short motivation letter (Maximum 1 A4 page), and names and contacts of two potential referees to:
Luca Caricchi: luca.caricchi@unige.
Department of Earth Sciences
University of Geneva
Rue des Maraîchers 13
CH-1205 Geneva
Switzerland
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