PhD: Trade-off and Tipping Dynamics in Urban Transitions at EPFL EPFL in Switzerland

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) is advertising a PhD position in Trade-off and tipping dynamics in urban transitions within the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), in Lausanne, Switzerland . The project sits at the intersection of urban sustainability transitions , agent-based modelling , urban systems , energy transitions , and food systems . The successful candidate will e...

This postdoc is part of the ECHO project, Energy transition, Collective dynamics and Human Opinions in agent-networks , a collaboration between the University of Groningen and the University of Oldenburg. The research examines how societal debates about the energy transition develop, with a particular focus on the social and opinion dynamics behind attitudes toward local renewable energy initiatives. The Groningen-based part of the project is led from the Department of Sociology by Prof. Andreas...

EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Verticality and Geospatial Digital Observatory within the CEAT research unit. This position is part of Vertical Africa (VERTICAF) , an interdisciplinary project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) . The postdoctoral researcher will work on urban verticality , Earth Observation , environmental modelling , geospatial data science , and remote sensing , with a strong focus on measurin...

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...

The University of Bern is recruiting a PhD researcher for CONNECT: COupled Networks aNd Ecosystem sTability , a project investigating how spatial networks interact with networks of species interactions to shape ecological patterns and ecosystem functioning. Based in the Network Ecology Division at the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, the project focuses on developing a general theory of stability and persistence in spatially coupled food webs. The research builds on an empirically grounded bi...