Offer Description
Europe needs more robust, systemic, and consistent climate risk assessments at regional and local levels to guide ambitious and transformative adaptation. Yet, only a few regional and local authorities have carried out a climate risk assessment, and many of these are focused on (direct) impacts and single hazard risk, are incomplete or outdated, and not mutually comparable.
As a PhD candidate, your goal is to develop new methods for assessing climate risk due to consecutive droughts and at different scales in Europe. Based on these risk assessments, the PhD will develop methods to assess the impacts of adaptation measures to reduce climate risk. This will be done by collecting large-scale datasets and using these data sets in a new modelling framework (GEB) which integrates Agent-Based Models, hydrological and flood models. GEB can simulate the dynamics between multiple hazard risk, how these risk impact society, vulnerability of different sectors, and how society can respond to reduce risk (adaptation). This will enhance the climate risk assessment under compound events in the EU. The work will be carried out in strong interaction with international project partners.
Your duties
- You develop multi-risk simulation models for compound and consecutive floods and droughts
- You develop new modelling tools to represent the complex systemic interactions between climate, environment, society, and human adaptation behaviour
- You assess how adaptation can reduce climate risks under different climate scenarios
- You present your research at scientific conferences and publish your results in scientific journals
- You contribute about 10% of your time to teaching and supervising in bachelor and master programs
Requirements
Specific Requirements
We are looking for a motivated candidate to develop and apply complex system models with the following profile:
- You hold a MSc degree in earth science, hydrology, computer science, environmental science, or equivalent
- You have solid scientific coding skills in Python. You are strongly motivated to acquire advanced skills in Python and in the use of high-performance computer systems
- You preferably have experience with hydrology, and affinity or experience with agent-based modelling and large-scale data processing with societal relevance
- You are able to work independently, and to collaborate with other researchers in the interdisciplinary project and research group
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not meet all the requirements.
Additional Information
Benefits
A challenging position in a socially engaged organization. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:
- a salary of minimum € 3.059,00 (PhD) and maximum € 3.881,00 (PhD) gross per month, on a full-time basis. This is based on UFO profile PhD candidate. The exact salary depends on your education and experience.
- a position for at least 0.8 FTE. Your employment contract will initially last 1 year. Afterwards, the intention is to extent the position for another 3-years enveloping the full PhD.
We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and arrangements. Some examples:
- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
- solid pension scheme (ABP)
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalized benefits package
Additional comments
Are you interested in this position and do you believe that your experience will contribute to the further development of our university? In that case, we encourage you to submit your application.
Submitting a diploma and a reference check are part of the application process.
Reference letters can either be uploaded with your application, or you can list the contact information of two references in your CV or cover letter.
Applications received by e-mail will not be considered.
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