PhD Climate Risk Modelling accounting for adaptation

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PhD Climate Risk Modelling accounting for adaptation Sintesi in italiano (traduzione automatica): L'organizzazione internazionale cerca un candidato per un dottorato di ricerca in Modelli di Rischio Climatico, con sede in Europa. Il ruolo prevede lo sviluppo di nuovi metodi per valutare il rischio climatico legato a siccità consecutive e a diverse scale. Il candidato dovrà raccogliere grandi dataset e utilizzare un nuovo framework di modellazione per simulare le dinamiche tra rischi multipli e l'impatto sulla società. È richiesta una laurea in discipline ambientali, ingegneria o affini. Le mansioni includono la presentazione della ricerca a conferenze scientifiche e la pubblicazione dei risultati, oltre a un contributo del 10% del tempo per l'insegnamento e la supervisione di studenti. È fondamentale la collaborazione con partner internazionali. 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a climate risk assessment, and many of these are focused on (direct) impacts and single hazard risk, are incomplete or outdated, and not mutually comparable.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 Annuncio in inglese. Fonte: Euraxess (Commissione europea).