PhD Position in Digital Twins for Forest Disturbances and Recovery Using Satellite Remote Sensing Ghent University in Belgium

Ghent University is advertising a PhD / doctoral fellow position in the Department of Environment within Q-ForestLab for the ERC project SPACETWIN : digital twins for understanding forest disturbances and recovery from space. The project sits at the intersection of Environmental Science , Earth Science , Biology , Computer Science , and Physics . It focuses on forest ecology, remote sensing, satellite data analysis, radiative transfer modelling, 3D forest reconstruction, and terrestrial laser sc...

PhD opportunity in Environmental Science at Ghent University (UGent), Belgium, with related themes in Earth Science and Forestry and Agroforestry . The vacancy is listed as open and appears to be supported by Horizon Europe – ERC . The post indicates partial funding , but does not provide a stipend amount or full funding breakdown. Applicants are directed to apply via the official channels linked from the vacancy page, including the EU ERA Talent Platform and Ghent University’s doctoral applicat...

New PhD opportunity in exploration geology and critical raw materials , focused on the exploration of rare earth element (REE) resources hosted in carbonatites . The project uses an innovative space-to-field workflow that combines satellite remote sensing, field investigations, geological validation, and handheld XRF geochemistry for rapid mineral exploration. The research aims to develop new methods for detecting and characterizing carbonatite bodies, which are important targets in the search f...

Ghent University is advertising a PhD / doctoral fellow position in forest ecology , remote sensing , terrestrial laser scanning , and microclimate buffering . The project is hosted by Q-ForestLab in the Department of Environment and focuses on linking high-temporal-resolution 3D forest structure with microclimate time series in tropical and temperate forest ecosystems. The research will examine how disturbances and forest dynamics shape forest structure over time, and how those structural chang...

University of Colorado Boulder’s Department of Computer Science is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate in the Geospatial and Environmental Machine Learning (GEM) Lab . This postdoc sits at the intersection of neural fields , Earth observation , and geospatial machine learning , with a research agenda centered on building continuous, queryable, uncertainty-aware representations of the planet that can update as new data arrives. The role includes developing new neural field models and studying scaling...