Two PhD Positions at University of Hamburg

19.06.2025

Two PhD Positions at University of Hamburg

Two positions for PhD students in geophysics and/or physics in the scope of project „SeiSmart: Research on and with seismic networks in smart cities“. Application deadline: July 2nd 2025. The project is a collaboration between the University of Hamburg, The Helmut-Schmidt University and DESY. SeiSmart explores the potential use and benefits of seismic sensing networks using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) in cities and research campuses for high precision experiments, structural health monitoring and scientific research and sustainability. SeiSmart research is conducted with a focus on the sensing network developed and operated by the WAVE Initiatve in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld and the research connects strongly to gravitational wave detection observatories and experiments.
The two positions focus on:
1) Demonstrating real-time seismic noise prediction for active compensation
2) DAS and seismic wave propagation modeling for structural monitoring of large research facilities