Post-doc offer "Coupling lithosphere deformation and stratigrapy"

Within the COLORS (Coupling lithosphere deformation and stratigrapy) project, a collaboration between the universities of Bergen, Toulouse and Grenoble funded by TOTAL, we are offering a post-doc project to develop a fully integrated study of the complete orogen/foreland basin system, from the eroding mountain belt that delivers erosional products, through the intermediate fluvial transport system, to the evolving foreland fold-and-thrust belt and foreland basin. The successful candidate will integrate information from each of these sub-components of the evolving source-to-sink system, as well as the underlying tectonic deformation of the orogen and its foreland, in coupled 2D and 3D models. She/he will use state-of-the-art 2D and 3D thermo-mechanical models coupled with a plan-view high-resolution surface-process model to study the interaction and feedback between the structural evolution of the orogen/ fold-and-thrust belt and the resulting characteristics of the depositional system in the foreland basin. Scientific questions cover a broad range of topics such as : What is the feedback of erosion / deposition on fold-and-thrust belt formation in 2D and 3D ? What is the role of orogen loading on fold-and-thrust belt/foreland basin geometry in 2D and 3D ? What is the stratigraphic signature of orogenesis versus climate evolution in fold-and-thrust belts ? The successful applicant will address these questions using datasets from the Pyrenean foreland and/or the Argentinian/Bolivian Andes, provided by TOTAL.

We seek candidates with a PhD in Earth Sciences and a strong background in analysing orogen / foreland basin systems using a quantitative approach. Experience with numerical modelling of surface processes and/or lithosphere deformation is a plus.

The successful applicant will be mainly based at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, working with P. van der Beek. Extended secondments at the University of Bergen, Norway (R. Huismans) will be part of the project. The 3-year position will start on September 1st 2016. CNRS net salaries range from 24,000 to 34,000 €/year, depending on the candidate’s previous experience.

Send application letters and CV, together with names of potential references, to
peter.van-der-beek univ-grenoble-alpes.fr and Ritske.Huismans uib.no.