PhD opportunities in urban planning

The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems is recruiting for an ERC-funded project, Ethics in Action: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas of Migrant Solidarity , led by Professor Julia Mourão Permoser. The project examines the ethics of migration policy, migrant solidarity, forced displacement, and decision-making under value conflict through comparative qualitative research. It combines political theory with empirical fieldwork across multiple region...

Utrecht University is recruiting a PhD candidate for Agent-Based Modelling and Urban Health: Designing for Movement at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences. The project focuses on how urban environments shape physical activity and health. The successful candidate will develop and extend agent-based models (ABM) to simulate how people move, make activity choices, and interact with their environment. The work in...

Fully funded PhD opportunities are available at the University of Illinois Chicago in the newly established Human-Infrastructure Systems Lab (Hi Lab) within the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering. The lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 under a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Research interests include human-infrastructure systems , resilience , mobility technologies , natural hazards , disasters , cascading failures , and adaptive govern...

PhD opening in Physics-based Modelling of Active Mobility and Urban Infrastructure Adaptation to Heat Waves This PhD is based at Institut Lumière Matière (CNRS & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) near Lyon, France. The project sits at the intersection of physics , urban resilience , environmental science , civil engineering , urban planning , and computer science , with a strong emphasis on statistical physics , agent-based modelling , and active mobility (walking, cycling, and micromobility). T...

The University of Antwerp invites applications for a full-time doctoral scholarship in Built Heritage Studies, focusing on the augmented mapping of cocoa heritage in São Tomé and Príncipe or Ghana. This position is based in the Department of Heritage within the Faculty of Design Sciences, offering a dynamic and international academic environment. The research project aims to address gaps in the study of cocoa heritage by exploring its multidimensional and multi-narrative aspects, including both ...

The Chair of Infrastructure Management at ETH Zürich, led by Professor Dr. Bryan T. Adey, invites applications for a PhD position focused on vehicle sensor and remote sensing analysis for road safety. This opportunity is embedded within the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management, part of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering. The position is a key component of a multidisciplinary EU Horizon project aiming to advance safe active mobility and urban trans...

The Chair of Infrastructure Management at ETH Zürich, led by Professor Dr. Bryan T. Adey, invites applications for a PhD position focused on infrastructure intervention effectiveness analysis for road safety. This opportunity is embedded within the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management, part of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering. The position is a key component of a multidisciplinary EU Horizon project aiming to advance safe active mobility through...

This PhD position at Tallinn University of Technology focuses on designing post-growth management frameworks for organizational sustainability in cultural and creative industries (CCI) within smart city ecosystems. The project addresses the challenges faced by CCI organizations operating in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments, including funding declines, digital-green transitions, and post-pandemic disruptions. Embedded in smart city ecosystems, CCI organizations serv...

This fully funded doctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology invites applications for research in resilient and equitable mobility systems. The role is embedded within the Division of Physical Resource Theory in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is part of the Swedish Research Council-funded DYNAMO project. The research focuses on developing dynamic synthetic populations and mobility digital twins to advance transport planning for resilience and equity. The project leverages agent-based modell...