15 PhD Positions, Marie Skłodowska-Curie ETN System-Risk, Europe (2016)

We invite applications to undertake competitive research on the assessment and management of large-scale flood risk within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network System-Risk funded by the European H2020 framework programme.

ll positions are full-time and fixed term for 3 years (Early Stage Researcher (ESR), PhD student). Successful applicants will benefit from an extensive training program delivered jointly by academic industrial and administrative partners. As a result, SYSTEM-RISK fellows will gain both research experience and complementary skills in career planning, communicating science and management techniques. Researchers will mainly work in their host institutions, but will also spend a period of time with another SYSTEM-RISK partner, based either in academia, industry or administration. SYSTEM-RISK is expected to rise a new generation of highly-qualified professionals with a holistic and systemic view on flood risk assessment and management and prepare them for competitive positions in academia, industry and public administration.

ESR1: Development of Future Weather techniques for flood risk assessment
ESR2: Flood change attribution: considering sources and pathways for understanding the past
ESR3: Identification of flood hazard patterns and flood-prone areas for large regions
ESR4: Development of a spatio-temporal weather generator for large-scale floods
ESR5: Identification of large-scale flood-risk changes and adaptation strategies
ESR6: Development of improved flood risk analysis methods for river deltas including the effects of defence failures on flood hazard
ESR7: Large-scale flood risk assessment considering river-dike-floodplain interactions and related spatial risk redistribution
ESR8: Development of transboundary, long-term flood risk management strategies taking into account spatial risk patterns and spatial interdependencies
ESR9: Development of a new European-wide flood hazard assessment approach
ESR10: Analysis of cascading effects and impacts of extreme events on infrastructure and devising options for flood policy and climate change adaptation policy
ESR11: Assessing and evaluating the interconnections between flood management approaches: balancing flood emergency actions, recovery and resilience
ESR12: Agent-based modelling to study the effects of shocks with a focus on indirect losses and system resilience
ESR13: Analyses and modelling of changes in vulnerability with focus on private sector
ESR14: Attribution of changes in flood risk with focus on exposure and vulnerability
ESR15: Socio-hydrology: understanding the generic behaviour of coupled human-flood systems at the centennial scale

Research Fields

Geosciences - Hydrology
Geography - Regional geography
Sociology - Socio-economic research
Engineering - Water resources engineering

Further details:
http://ec.europa.eu