PhD in Climate Extremes, Infrastructure Risk, and Urban Resilience University of Leeds in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at University College London in the Department of Geography with Prof Chris Brierley, focused on climate science , machine learning , data science , mathematical modelling , and Earth science . This project asks whether AI-based regional downscaling models can capture hydroclimate changes in the geologic past. You will work with paleoclimate proxy records, uncertainty quantification, climate-model evaluation, and high-resolution simulations from PMIP and NCAR, including experimen...

PhD opportunity at University College London in the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction: UNBURNT: UNcertainty from wildfire hazard to BUilt-environment Response, adaptatioN and insurabiliTy . This project sits within the UNRISK CDT and focuses on wildfire hazard, urban climate science, built-environment response, adaptation, insurability, and uncertainty quantification. The research will combine probabilistic wildfire hazard data, urban microclimate modelling, building-by-building fire spr...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in the School of Earth & Environment on Greenland ice-sheet stability, climate science, data analysis, data science, mathematical modelling, and palaeoclimate evidence . The project asks whether Greenland may reach a tipping point and how ice-age evidence can improve predictions of its future. It uses the coupled climate–ice sheet model FAMOUS-ice to study past, present, and future Greenland stability, including irreversible retreat, uncertainty in sea-...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in the School of Earth & Environment with Dr Ruza Ivanovic. This project, “Changing climates: Unlocking the past to improve predictions of the future,” sits at the intersection of climate science, data analysis, data science, mathematical modelling, statistics, and Earth science. The research aims to improve estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) by combining observational records from Earth’s past with advanced uncertainty quantification, m...

PhD opportunity at University College London in the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction on Compound Wind and Rainfall Extremes over Europe: understanding uncertainties from climate to financial risk . This project sits at the intersection of climate science , statistics , data science , machine learning , mathematical modelling , and applied statistics . It investigates how compound weather extremes such as winter windstorms coinciding with heavy rainfall create financial losses, and how u...