Doctoral Researcher in Carbon Uptake, Durability, and Regeneration of Reused Concrete

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The PhD is embedded in the national Climate Nexus Framework Convention with the target to boost climate readiness and global cooperation. The interdisciplinary research group by the Department of Engineering and Department of Physics and Materials Science investigates Carbon Capture in concrete.

The aim of this Ph.D. project is to quantify carbon intake and its impacts on the properties of concrete produced through direct reuse. Moreover, an ambitious healing of pre-existing cracks with a novel bio-based solution involving ,microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) (collaboration with the Department of Physics) will be developed.

The tasks comprise the development of a laboratory campaign of carbon capture on concrete, the development of a reused-concrete durability model, and the design of the rehabilitation with bio-based solutions of the existing cracks.

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