PhD Candidate in Mineral resource assessment - SO IV-32/23

Updated: March 04, 2024 09:21 PM GMT

Full-time Job in Malvik, Trondelag

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Trondheim, Norway

About the job

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

The Department of Geoscience and Petroleum (IGP) has a long history of research in quantitative geology, both within land-based mining, deep-sea mining and in the energy industries.

The department has been an international driving force in developing the play analysis methodology used today in the oil and gas industry to quantify the undiscovered resource potential and they were the first to apply this methodology on deep sea minerals.

The PhD project will involve a quantification of undiscovered mineral resources potential on the Norwegian mainland supported by unsupervised and supervised AI-methodologies.

The candidate will contribute to the development of relevant methodologies and apply these to selected commodities and mineral systems relevant for the energy transition.

The focus of the project will be adapted to the main qualification of the... More Detail