My team and I are looking forward to working with this group of students from Brazil.

Professor Kenichi Soga

Over the next six years, post-doctoral researchers from Brazil will spend up to four years working with geomechanics experts from the Department of Engineering, particularly the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure (CSIC), to study wellbore and geomechanical coupling, driving forward research in this area. New technologies are essential to unlocking Brazil’s potential, where complex challenges emerge from operating in ultra-deep waters.

The agreement is part of the BG Brasil Fellowship Programme, an initiative to develop the next generation of Brazillian researchers. It helps support the Brazillian government’s Science without Borders scheme, which aims to expand and internationalise Brazillian science, technology, innovation and competitiveness.

“We are excited both by the opportunity to engage in meaningful work in this area and to develop our partnerships with BG Group and Pontifícia Universidade Católica,” said Professor Kenichi Soga of the Geotechnical and Environmental Group. “The University of Cambridge strives to foster international human resources training worldwide, and my team and I are looking forward to working with this group of students from Brazil.”

CSIC, a part of the Department of Engineering, researches the innovative use of emerging technologies in sensor and data management, coupled with emerging best practices in construction and infrastructure. It is an entrepreneurial environment in which researchers, potential customers and skilled professionals from both academia and business work side-by-side to ensure the United Kingdom is first in cutting-edge research.

BG Brasil is part of the BG Group, which operates in the areas of exploration and production of oil and gas and liquefied natural gas in more than 20 countries.