Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bridge Life Cycle Cost Analysis

Job description

The Advanced Research Projects Agency - Infrastructure (ARPA-I) is a new Congressionally designated agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) tasked with funding high-risk, high-reward next-generation technologies that have the potential to revolutionize America’s transportation infrastructure systems. The ARPA-I eXceptional Bridges through Innovative Design and Groundbreaking Engineering (X-BRIDGE) program is focused on creating transformative materials, designs, and construction techniques that can deliver bridges at half the cost, in half the time, and with twice the lifespan. Through a cooperative agreement between ARPA-I and the University of Maine (UMaine), this first project under the X-BRIDGE Program will develop and integrate new advanced composite materials into bridge construction. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will support the X-BRIDGE Program at UMaine by driving the life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) work, to understand how the technological innovations of the X-BRIDGE help meet the cost and time goals relative to conventional bridges. This position will empower the Postdoctoral Research Associate to hone their research, leadership, teamwork, and me...