Environmental and societal well-being in densely populated areas University of Zurich in Switzerland

A PhD opening is available in Urban Provisioning Systems, Sufficiency Behaviour, and Well-Being at EPFL , in collaboration with the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . The project examines how urban planning interventions and changes in provisioning systems influence citizens’ perceptions, behavioral choices, and subjective well-being, and how these changes affect resource demand and urban socio-metabolic profiles. The research is interdisciplinary and combines spatial/quantitative analysis wit...

Postdoc in Digital Plant Phenotyping at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The Institute of Plant Sciences, Research Section Biotic Interactions, is recruiting for an 80–100% postdoctoral position in the Plant 3D Reconstruction project. The project combines plant science , computational biology , computer vision , chemical ecology , and statistics . You will work with the Biotic Interactions Group (Prof. Matthias Erb) and the Computer Vision Group (Prof. Paolo Favaro) to grow plants, collect i...

EPFL’s HERUS Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland is recruiting a PhD researcher for a project on urban provisioning systems, sufficiency behaviour, and well-being . The research examines how urban planning and provisioning systems can reduce resource use and carbon emissions while improving well-being. Methods mentioned include surveys, interviews, choice experiments, spatial analysis, synthetic household populations, resource demand analysis, and urban material/energy flows . Relevant study areas incl...

PhD opportunity at EPFL Lausanne: Measurement and modeling of urban verticality in Africa. This full-time PhD position is part of the Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities (VERTICAF) project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . The project is co-led by Professors Didier Péclard and Armelle Choplin (University of Geneva) and Jérôme Chenal (EPFL), in partnership with the...

Two PostDoc positions are open at the University of Bern, Switzerland , in the Professor Matthias Erb Group . These opportunities are connected to two research directions: Climate-Resilient Companion Cropping (together with the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) and Digital Plant Phenotyping (together with the Computer Vision Group of Prof. Paolo Favaro). The positions sit at the intersection of Plant Science , Biology , Agriculture , Environmental Science , Computer Science , Agroecol...