💼 Full-Time Position

VAC-2025-65 – PhD position on AI-driven Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Assessment of Dams (FPI 2024)

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📍 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Location
Barcelona, Spain
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Posted
June 30, 2026
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Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Functions to be developed:


A doctoral thesis in the framework of the research project entitled DAMSHAI: Dam Structural Health Monitoring and Safety Assessment with an AI-driven framework, with reference Project PID2024-157828OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI /9/501100011033 and by FEDER, EU, funded by the Spanish Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2024. Principal investigator: Dr. Fernando Salazar ().

The DAMSHAI project explores the potential of AI agents to support decision-making in dam safety and predictive maintenance, integrating numerical modelling (FEM), monitoring data, machine learning (ML) predictions, and expert knowledge.


Tasks to be performed:

  • Contribute to the generation of a knowledge base, integrating monitoring data, FEM models, technical reports, and expert surveys.

  • Participate in the evaluation of AI approaches (prompt engineering, fine-tuning of LLMs, and rule-based expert systems) for decision support in...