2 PhD Scholarship in Modelling of Petroleum Resurvoir at NTNU, Norway

Closing date: March 19, 2010.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology has available up to two PhD Research Fellowship positions for a three year period. The positions are financed by the Research Council of Norway and a group of petroleum related companies.
For applicants speaking a Scandinavian language, there is a possibility for four years of employment with teaching obligations.

The candidates will study spatial mathematical and statistical models for inversion of well log observations, seismic data and production history. Mathematical modelling and parameter estimation in complex models will be major subjects of study. The work will be performed in cooperation with personnel at the Department of Petroleum Technology and Applied Geophysics, NTNU and several petroleum related companies.

The applicants should have a MSc-degree in physics or mathematical sciences, or a comparable competence, and have some background and interest in probability theory and statistics. Candidates completing their MSc-degree in 2009/2010 2009/2010 are also encouraged to apply.

The position should lead to a PhD-degree and it is required that the candidates enrol as PhD-students at NTNU. For more information about PhD education at NTNU, see
http://www.ime.ntnu.no/english/reserach/phd

For more information regarding the positions, please contact Professor Henning Omre, email omre@math.ntnu.no / tel +47 90937848 +47 90937848 or Professor Bjørn Ursin, email bjorn.ursin@ntnu.no / tel +4799454552 +4799454552
Applications are to be submitted electronically through www.jobbnorge.no
Preferably, we want the attachments in one file.

Applications should be marked IME 015-2010.

For more information, please see attachment: IMF.pdf

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