PhD Opportunities in Spatial Analysis in France

This PhD opportunity at Durham University investigates how global bird communities are changing under land-use and climate change. The project addresses an important challenge in biodiversity science: bird monitoring data are often unevenly distributed and may not represent environmental changes across the wider regions where monitoring takes place. The doctoral researcher will link bird survey time series from three continents with environmental change data. The work will assess whether monitor...

This PhD project at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), within EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, investigates how urban provisioning systems can support low-carbon futures while maintaining or improving human well-being. The research connects urban systems, human behaviour, perceptions, and subjective well-being with socio-metabolic analysis. The doctoral researcher will examine how urban planning interventions and changes in...

The USC Price School is accepting applications for fully funded PhD study beginning in Fall 2027 in two doctoral pathways: Urban Planning and Development and Public Policy and Management . Students can shape an individualized academic trajectory after enrollment, with flexibility to select faculty for dissertation committees and research assistantships. The program provides opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research and publish scholarly work, including with Geoff Boeing, Associate Pr...

PhD Researcher: Environmental Impacts of Spatial Demographic Change at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) and Faculty of Science is a research project at the intersection of demographic change, spatial analysis, and environmental sustainability. The project examines how spatial population distribution, population ageing, smaller households, and urban form combine to shape future resource demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The research is designed to identify trade-of...

This PhD project at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University focuses on how interventions and broader societal transitions affect air quality in the Netherlands. The research sits within the NWA-ORC project ExpACT, which examines the health effects of air pollution and develops improved monitoring technologies and methods for understanding changing pollution levels and sources. You will investigate how real-world interventions change air pollution in a series of pr...

ETH Zürich is offering a fully funded PhD position in glaciology and glacial hazards through the Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) and the ICEFAL Project. The research focuses on cold hanging glaciers in the French and Swiss Alps, investigating how climate warming affects glacier stability and ice-avalanche risk. The doctoral project combines high-altitude fieldwork with glacier modelling and geospatial analysis, providing an interdisciplinary research environment at the i...

The GIS Centre at Lund University is seeking a doctoral student to join its research in Geographical Information Science, with a particular focus on Autonomous GIS and Spatial Intelligence . The project sits at the intersection of GIScience and artificial intelligence, exploring how large language models, GeoAI, and multi-agent systems can turn GIS into more intelligent systems that interpret spatial problems, reason about geographic information, and plan and execute geospatial workflows. The Ph...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is recruiting a full-time PhD Candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Trondheim, Norway. The four-year project, Impacts of Interdependent Multi-Hazards on Transport Systems , is part of the STRIDE initiative under NTNU's More Resilient Society programme. The research will examine how climate-driven hazards—including intense storms, floods, and water-induced landslides—interact with acute security threats such...

[Fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] University of Exeter is offering a PhD studentship on Digital twinning for post-mining environmental transitions . This project addresses the challenge of what happens to mines, quarries, and other extractive landscapes when ore bodies become exhausted or uneconomic, with a focus on building more sustainable and resilient post-mining futures. The research explores how former mine sites can be reused for a range of purposes, including resourc...