PhD in Humanitarian Risk Pools Responding to a Changing Climate University College London in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in seamless regional climate prediction , uncertainty characterisation , and adaptation decision-making . This project sits within the UNRISK CDT and explores how climate information spanning months to decades can support planning in climate-sensitive sectors. The research combines climate science , decision science , data science , and mathematical modelling to study how seamless regional climate predictions can be made useful for stakeholders. Possibl...

PhD opportunity at the University of Exeter on quantifying uncertainty and spatial dependence in tropical forest forecasts to support climate change mitigation , conservation planning, and carbon finance. The project sits within the UNRISK CDT and is supervised by Dr Ben Balmford , Prof Daniel Williamson , and Prof Ben Groom . It focuses on improving statistical and machine-learning methods for forecasting deforestation and regrowth using satellite data, with an emphasis on uncertainty quantific...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds on Prioritising Conservation Planning Amid Climate Uncertainty . This project sits within the UNRISK CDT and focuses on how to prioritise habitats for conservation when decisions must account for biodiversity loss , climate change , and uncertainty in ecological and climate data. The research combines ecology , climate science , data science , mathematical modelling , and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to build an adaptive framework for conserv...

PhD opportunity at University College London (UCL STEaPP) in humanitarian risk pools, climate science, data science, and financial modelling . This project examines how humanitarian risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility can respond to a changing climate. The research sits at the intersection of climate change, catastrophe modelling, decision science, and insurance/financial modelling, with a strong emphasis on uncertainty qua...

PhD opportunity at the University of Leeds in the School of Earth & Environment on innovative data-driven approaches to predicting long-term European wind storm risk . This project sits at the interface of climate science, environmental science, statistics, mathematical modelling, data science, and decision science . It is linked to a new partnership between the University of Leeds and Lloyd’s Banking Group and focuses on real-world problems in estimating and predicting European wind storm risk ...