post-doc in experimental volcanology - 1 year

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Research project or operation . This post-doc position is within the framework of the European Research Council SYNERGY grant ROTTnROCK ("assessing the role of hydrothermal alteration on volcano morphology, instability, and unpredictable volcanic hazards"). ROTTnROCK is a collaborative project with four PIs: Michael Heap (Strasbourg, France), Claire Harnett (Dublin, Ireland), Thomas Walter (GFZ Potsdam, Germany), and Valentin Troll (Uppsala, Sweden). A summary of the ROTTnROCK project is as follows: . "More than 10% of the world’s population are at risk to the direct impacts of volcanic eruptions. Volcano monitoring aims to detect and correctly interpret volcanic hazards and to provide early and accurate warnings of impending eruptions. Yet, despite technical and scientific advances, volcanoes still produce unexpected explosive eruptions or sudden flank collapses. Each year, such unpredictable events result in volcanic disasters that devastate unprepared communities and destroy unprotected infrastructures. Previous work by the PIs indicates that volcanic hazards are caused by hydrothermal alteration, which progressively and imperceptibly changes the chemical and physical state of rocks inside a volcano, creating a soft and unstable (or “rotten”) interior. However, the link between “soft” volcanoes and unpredictable volcanic events remains enigmatic. The ROTTnROCK project aims to ach