PhD Opportunities in Remote Sensing

PhD scholarship: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Greenland’s Firn Tipping Point DTU Space, part of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, is recruiting a PhD student for a three-year research project on Greenland’s firn and its role in future sea-level rise. Greenland’s firn—the porous, compacted snow layer on the ice sheet—can currently refreeze a substantial amount of summer meltwater. This storage capacity is finite, however, and the project will investigat...

The University of Eastern Finland is recruiting three doctoral researchers for the School of Computing on the Kuopio campus to join the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project. The project combines satellite imagery, mining data reports, and AI to study mining activities and their impacts worldwide, with a focus on improving transparency and sustainability in mining. Each doctoral researcher will lead an individual thesis within one of three research themes: mapping mining land use through semantic segm...

The PhD programme in Geography at the University of Göttingen is built around the research focus “Resources and Sustainability” . It is centred on the interface of human-environment research and combines work in physical geography, human geography, cartography, GIS, and remote sensing. Doctoral researchers engage with topics such as process mapping and modelling, material balances involving water, air, sediment, carbon, nitrogen, and pollutants, and the reconstruction of past environmental condi...

The University of Cambridge invites applications for a three-year funded PhD studentship in the landscape archaeology of East African montane systems, starting in October 2027. The student will join the AFRI-CAN project, funded by an ERC Synergy Grant, and will be based in the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. The research will contribute to Work Package 1, investigating human-environment interactions over the past 6,000 years. The project will develop...

ETH Zurich is offering a fully funded four-year doctoral position in 3D scene reconstruction and multi-modal sensing for information-rich digital twins of stone-built heritage. The project is part of the collaborative HC3 – Heritage Conservation Collaboration Copilots initiative, led by the Chair of Physical Chemistry of Building Materials and the Chair of Geosensors and Engineering Geodesy. The doctoral researcher will work on reality capture at scale, including LiDAR and imaging technologies d...

Radboud University in the Netherlands is offering a PhD position in movement ecology within the Department of Ecology and the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences. The project investigates how climate-driven changes in freshwater availability affect the year-round movements of greater white-fronted geese. The research will combine long-term GPS tracking data from more than 200 geese, remotely sensed environmental datasets and statistical modelling. Key topics include snow ...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Greenwich focused on heatwave adaptation in residential properties. The project, entitled “Adapting to heatwave. A workflow blending outdoor and indoor environments” , will develop an adaptation workflow to help residential properties cope with heatwave events through integrated outdoor and indoor analysis. Research methods will include remote sensing , building simulation , and thermal comfort . The project will be supervised by Carlos Jimenez-Bescos,...

PhD Position: Movement Ecology at Radboud University in the Netherlands. This PhD project studies how climate change and freshwater availability shape the year-round movements of migratory waterbirds, using the greater white-fronted goose ( Anser albifrons ) as a model species. The project connects a unique long-term individual tracking dataset with remote sensing products to examine how geese respond to snow cover, freshwater availability, breeding success, and changing temperatures across bree...

The University of Eastern Finland invites applications for three full-time Doctoral Researcher (PhD Student) positions in the Development of Data Science and AI for Spatial Data at the School of Computing, Kuopio campus, Finland. The positions are part of the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project, which combines satellite imagery, mining reports, and artificial intelligence to map mining activities and their global environmental impacts. Each doctoral researcher will lead a thesis in one of three area...