Offer Description
Teaching profile
The recruited person will join the teaching team of the GU urban engineering Department. He/she must correspond to a profile at the interface between hydrology and urban planning with skills, if possible, in a field of application in water management. Within the urban engineering department, he/she will mainly contribute to general teaching (engineering major level) and, depending on his/her profile, to specific teaching in the Planning, Mobility, Transportation sector. He/she may also occasionally give lectures and conduct classes as part of the core curriculum (level L1, L2). The person recruited will be involved more specifically in the following general courses: – Urban hydrology: he/she will be required to teach courses relating to stormwater drainage (design of networks and compensatory techniques), and should be familiar with the use of digital tools. – Soil hydraulics (practical work): he/she will be able to take part in setting up new experiments and modifying teaching content (practical work instructions). Additional skills in soil mechanics would facilitate his/her participation in these tasks. Depending on the background of the person recruited, he/she could be placed in charge of urban policy course (the areas to be covered will be defined according to the candidate’s specific profile, and will include urban planning, housing, urban policy and urban renewal and environment). In addition, he/she will be required to lead the practical sessions associated with these courses. Knowledge of the workings of local authorities is therefore an advantage. As part of the core curriculum, he/she will take part in the ‘Introduction to Urban Systems’ course. In the medium and long term, he/she will help to develop the content of the ‘water’ courses to include the organisational aspects of water management and adaptation to climate change using nature-based solutions. The person recruited will also supervise internships/AP (Project Workshops) in the engineering curriculum cycle.He/she must be willing to participate in the development of the urban engineering department’s teaching programme and to take on teaching responsibilities. Significant previous experience of working with engineering students would be an advantage.
Research profile
The successful applicant will join the AVENUES research team. The team’s scientific project covers two macroscopic themes: “City and Building in Transitions” and “Sustainable Energy Management and Electro-Mobility”. The team would like to strengthen the “City and Building in Transitions” theme and more specifically the “Urban adaptability: regulatory urban planning and adaptation to climate change” and “City and hydrological risks” components. The person recruited will therefore join colleagues working on this theme in order to strengthen the team’s skills in water management issues in an organisational, regulatory and technical point of view. The person recruited will have a good knowledge of sustainable urban drainage systems and in technical planning, which will allow him/ her to respond to calls for projects on the issues of adaptation to climate change, implementation of decision-making tools for stormwater management, assessment of the performance of nature-based solutions for mitigating the impact of climate change. He/she will collaborate with research scientists and engineers from different disciplines (urban planning, geography, hydrology and civil engineering). He/she will therefore need to be familiar with how research works in these disciplines and to demonstrate his/her ability to work on multidisciplinary projects. He/she will contribute to the development of contract research activities in interaction with other laboratories and the socio-economic world. He/she will also be responsible for co-supervising Master’s degree and PhD students and will naturally be involved in the life of the laboratory and its scientific activities, particularly through seminars and with working groups.
Where to apply
Website: https://odyssee.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/
Skills/Qualifications
The person recruited must have previous training/skills in urban engineering and more specifically in hydrology and urban planning. The person recruited is expected to have: a demonstrable fluency in French and English; the ability to take on responsibilities in both tea ching and research the ability to work as part of a team in both teaching and research; an ability to work in a multidisciplinary environment within UTC Compiegne, the Sorbonne University Alliance and the network of universities of technology; an ability to develop national and international collaborations in both teaching and research.
