Researcher (Postdoc) in Satellite Hydrology
The University of Twente wants to be an organisation that successfully deploys diversity, talents, and capabilities in the labour market for now and in the future. In our diversity and inclusiveness policy framework, we strongly stimulate people with a (work) disability to apply for this position.
The University of Twente is committed to providing a working environment where everyone is valued, respected, and supported to progress. Our priority is to ensure that no one is disadvantaged based on their ethnicity, gender, culture, disability, LGBTQ+ identities, family and caring responsibilities, age, or religion. We encourage everyone who shares these values to apply.
Are you an emerging scholar driven by scientific curiosity to discover and learn? Are you interested in unraveling the intricate nexus between water-related risk and climate change? Are you passionate about analyzing uncertainty and investigating the accuracy of Earth Observation (EO) products, hydrological model predictions, and their integration?
Then you might be interested in joining us.
PCP-WISE, a Horizon Europe-funded project, aims to pre-operate Water management Innovations from Space for European Climate Resilience. PCP-WISE will investigate the utilities of EO-based hydrological services addressing a wide range of water-related crises in three thematic areas: floods, fires, and infrastructure impacts. Under the PCP-WISE you will be working with a team of experts on defining the verification and validation strategy of the proposed EO-based hydrological services. With verified EO and hydrological products, innovative model simulations, and field data, you will be testing and validating these services. A set of key performance indicators will be generated and communicated to partners using a standardized approach that is appreciated by various partners (scientists, water managers, service providers, and service buyers) and covers diverse hydrological services. Your verification/validation activities will be in three phases covering the three years of the project: 1) verifying the solution designs; 2) testing the prototypes using outputs from hydrological models, and 3) performing field validation by end-users testing services in different operational environments.
Information and application
For more information about the position, please contact Dr Suhyb Salama (email: s.salama@utwente.nl). We encourage you to visit [our homepage] (https://www.itc.nl) as well.
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Please submit your application before the 4th of November 2024. Your application should include:
- A motivation letter (maximum 2 pages of A4), emphasizing your specific interest, qualifications, and motivation to apply for this position
- Curriculum Vitae with a full list of publications, and two references with their contact details
- A short description (150 – 250 words) of your PhD research and a copy of your PhD diploma.
If you are in the final stage, then a letter from your PhD supervisor, stating the date of PhD defense, is also sufficient
Interviews will be held in the first half of December 2024. The position will start on the 1st of January 2025.
About the department
The Department of Water Resources (WRS) of the University of Twente studies water systems and their relationship with land use and climate through remote sensing, field instrumentation and modeling.
Our mission is to build communities of water professionals, scientists, and engineers with skills to contribute to a sustainable and resilient living environment using Earth Observations and Modelling of Water and Climate.
The world desperately needs people with these skills. Water-related challenges are everywhere. Some are caused by climate change, others by urbanization, infrastructure, land cover change, mining, discharge of polluted effluents, and sea level rise. They affect food security, biodiversity and health. Good water management starts with insight into the problem and access to accurate, (near-)real-time information. This requires a scientific data infrastructure and research capacity. We engage with social actors including policymakers, entrepreneurs and citizens to co-create sustainable and innovative solutions for the monitoring and management of freshwater and marine resources using Earth Observation. We focus on physical, chemical and biological processes on land and in aquatic systems, river basins, soils and plants. To study these, we develop, use and teach quantitative use of Earth observation and physically based models, and unravel linkages between water and food, energy, health and ecosystem security and sustainability.
About the organisation
The Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) provides international postgraduate education, research and project services in the field of geo-information science and earth observation. Our mission is capacity development, where we apply, share and facilitate the effective use of geo-information and earth observation knowledge and tools for tackling global wicked problems. Our purpose is to enable our many partners around the world to track and trace the impact – and the shifting causes and frontiers – of today’s global challenges. Our vision is of a world in which researchers, educators, and students collaborate across disciplinary and geographic divides with governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutes, businesses, and local populations to surmount today’s complex global challenges and to contribute to sustainable, fair, and digital societies.
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