PhD positionin Computational Science and Enginee

PhD Student Position in Computational Science and Engineering at UMIT Research Lab See complete ad: www.jobb.umu.se Recently, Umeå University decided to make a strategic funding within the focus area Applied Information Technology by forming the UMIT Research Laboratory (www.physics.umu.se/english/umit).The UMIT efforts include the establishment of a dynamic, intellectual, and physical research environment enabling world-class interdisciplinary research in scientific, high-performance, distributed, real-time, and visual computing.Deliverables include new models, methods, parallel algorithms and high-quality software targeting emerging HPC platforms and IT infrastructures.UMIT will also focus on challenges and applications of high relevance for the industry, and the use of innovative techniques and collaboration with industrial partners and society are important components.The announced position is affiliated with UMIT and placed at the Department of Physics (www.physics.umu.se).The UMIT environment is shared also with researchers mainly from the Department of Computing Science (www.cs.umu.se) and the Department of Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics (www.math.umu.se).We are looking for an exceptional PhD student to join our interdisciplinary group focusing on modeling and numerical simulation of complex mechanical systems.This is a full-time position over a period of four years.An opportunity for part-time teaching may be offered in which case the duration of the position can be extended up to five years.The expected start date is September 1, 2010.The application should include a description of past research accomplishments, curriculum vitae, transcripts of degree certificates, and names and contact information of references.Applications will be discarded or, if the applicant so wishes, returned two years after the position has been filled.Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format.