MS and PhD position in the School of Urban and Environmental Engineering at UNIST

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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Catan Andreea Corina
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea. The School of Urban and Environmental Engineering offers M.S. and Ph.D. positions in the “Risk and Reliability Assessment Laboratory”.

Classes and research at UNIST are in English.

The reliability and risk assessment laboratory (R2Alab) is currently recruiting graduate students at different levels:

- M.S. program (2 years)

- Ph.D. program (4 years)

- M.S./Ph.D. program (6 years)

The scope of the R2Alab is to improve the current state of the art and to develop new innovative methodologies for the reliability and risk assessment of civil infrastructure systems. Examples of such systems are highway transportation networks, railroad networks, water distribution systems, power distribution grids, and nuclear power plants.

The research field includes: the inputs, the outputs, and the probabilistic risk assessment itself. Inputs include fragility analysis of the vulnerable components and probabilistic hazard analysis of the different hazards. Tsunami, flood, earthquake, and hurricane are examples of hazards taken into consideration. The study of the outputs includes benefit/cost analysis, evaluation of the consequences, and risk mitigation through strengthening of the system.