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There is a vacancy for a PhD researcher in the Geomatics research group of the Department of Civil Engineering of KU Leuven. The candidate will be active in the CHAI project (Cracking Built Heritage with AI) in collaboration with the Materials and Constructions section of the department. In this project we research how to improve structural analysis and damage prediction of built masonry heritage by enriching structural models with data from AI-enhanced digital surveying and damage mapping.
The position starts March 1st 2025 and is for four years (two + two years after good evaluation).
The Geomatics group’s laboratory is based on the KU Leuven Campus in Ghent, which is located at the center of Belgium, in the heart of Europe. The research group targets practical applications in the field of construction and surveying and focuses on data capture, processing and interpretation for the creation of semantically rich databases i.e., BIM and GIS and the analysis of the built environment. The emphasis is on the processing of geometry such as point cloud data and mesh data, and on information extracted from imagery taken from the built environment.
The research at the Geomatics group, headed by prof. Maarten Vergauwen and prof. Maarten Bassier, is rapidly expanding. The group currently already has about 15 researchers, both working on individual research topics and international projects. In particular, related to this project, there is expertise in machine learning for geospatial applications, remote sensing, and the creation of intelligent databases.
The research group also has strong ties to industry and the research community. Within KU Leuven the group has contacts, relevant to this project, with the Departments of Electrical Engineering (ESAT), Computer Science and Civil Engineering, and externally with the universities of Liège, Stockholm and Rome. Internally, two postdocs of the group work on a project about damage inventory in sewer systems using image and point cloud analysis. The group’s laboratory is well equipped with state-of-the art Lidar and photogrammetric hard and software and powerful processing units which the candidate can use for research.
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For more information please contact Prof. dr. ir. Maarten Vergauwen, mail: maarten.vergauwen@kuleuven.be.
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