PhD Opportunities in Spatial Analysis in Italy

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship at the University of Exeter focuses on how Amazon forest wildfire affects soil carbon cycling, with a particular emphasis on soil respiration, soil properties, and pyrogenic carbon (charcoal) in southern Amazonian soils. The project also explores how these field and experimental results can be used to improve the JULES land surface model , linking tropical soil processes with c...

The LEGASYS Lab at Utah State University is recruiting motivated MS and PhD students for a UtahView-funded graduate research project on historical land-use and landscape changes across Utah. The project brings together remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) . Students will work with historical aerial photography and satellite imagery, applying geospatial programming and spatial analysis to investigate how landscapes have changed over ...

The University of the Aegean’s Research Unit is recruiting a researcher for the CircHive Horizon Europe case study on developing a biodiversity strategy for Mytilene and Lesvos Island, Greece. The work combines biodiversity data collection, ecological fieldwork, and geospatial analysis to support biodiversity strategies and natural capital accounting. The selected researcher will collect and process biodiversity and environmental data from study sites on Lesvos, with a strong focus on coastal an...

Fully funded PhD opportunity: Beyond Cooling explores how climate-robust urban environments can better protect people from extreme heat and heat-related health risks in the UK. The project examines urban heat exposure and climate adaptation through a combination of remote sensing, GIS and spatial analysis. It will also investigate human mobility and heat exposure, heat-related health risks and inequalities, and the role of urban green and blue spaces under future climate scenarios. The research ...

Illinois State University is seeking graduate students for research in urban animal cognition, wildlife behavior, movement ecology, and human-wildlife interactions . The research group led by Dr. Lauren Stanton examines how animals perceive, learn about, and respond to human-altered environments, with particular interest in individual differences, early-life experience, social learning, cultural transmission, and strategies for coexistence between people and urban wildlife. Both openings are con...

This PhD project is part of VERTICAF (Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities) , a comparative research initiative on urban verticalization in African cities. Based at EPFL Lausanne and linked to partnerships with the Universities of Dakar, Kigali, and Luanda, the project examines how cities in Africa are changing through vertical growth and what this means for urban futures. The doctoral researcher will focus on developing and applying methods ...

The Julius Kühn Institute in Germany is advertising two research positions in agricultural and environmental modelling: a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD researcher. The postdoctoral project will develop a hybrid suitability and risk assessment framework. The work will integrate crop model outputs with soil and climate data, then use GIS-based mapping and spatial analysis to evaluate agricultural suitability and risk across space. The PhD project focuses on process-based crop modelling using D...

The Julius Kühn Institute in Braunschweig, Germany, is recruiting researchers for the new LeguMap project within an international Cropping Systems Research team. LeguMap investigates where and under which conditions major grain legumes—including field pea, faba bean, soybean and narrow-leafed lupin—can be grown successfully across Germany. The project will translate research findings into practical, publicly accessible decision-support maps supporting more diversified, climate-resilient and sust...

Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar is seeking a PhD candidate to join a research team working on an innovative independent localization and georeferencing system based on high-resolution LiDAR datasets. The doctoral research will address the processing of LiDAR point clouds and the creation of accurate 3D maps for autonomous localization. The project includes methods such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), scan matching, and map-based localization, with emphasis on developing sy...