PhD Opportunities in Spatial Analysis in South Korea

North Carolina State University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics is recruiting doctoral students for three fully funded GeoAI fellowships beginning in Fall 2027. The opportunities are part of the PhD in Geospatial Analytics program and bring together geospatial science, artificial intelligence, environmental modeling, and decision support. The first fellowship focuses on autonomous AI for GIS and natural-hazard simulation . The student will develop an agentic GeoAI system able to plan and execu...

ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions in the SNSF-funded project “From Homes to Habitats – Swiss Housing Cooperatives as Agents of Socio-Ecological Transition.” The project investigates how housing cooperatives in Switzerland can support more sustainable ways of living. It moves beyond their established role in providing affordable housing to examine innovative social, spatial, and ecological practices a...

This doctoral project at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, focuses on remote sensing of landscape change in the Arctic . The work combines drone observations collected across the Arctic, a decade of multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and recent advances in machine learning and AI to study changes in Arctic land cover. The project is embedded in the department’s doctoral school and in local and international networks of Arctic researchers. The research aims to g...

This PhD project focuses on radar remote sensing for detecting logging in tropical forests , with the broader aim of supporting tools that help curb illegal timber trade. The successful candidate will work on a research project developing independent techniques to verify timber origin under new international legislation. You will process and analyse novel satellite radar data and develop remote-sensing methods to identify logging occurrence and logging intensity across pantropical forests. The p...

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...