Phd: Modelling to Advance Climate Justice

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Amsterdam Zuid, Nederland Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Voltijd

**Jouw functie**:
Those who contribute the least to climate change are the first to suffer from its impacts. This is especially true for vulnerable and marginalized groups in coastal areas, who live in hazardous locations prone to flooding, salt intrusion or coastal erosion. Meanwhile, adaptation measures are often aimed at areas with high economic value, neglecting the most vulnerable and further increasing inequality. With your PhD thesis, you will improve our understanding of the drivers, conditions, and dependencies of household (in)equality in coastal climate risk, in relation to government adaptation decisions.

Furthermore, to bring science to society, you will develop an open-source modelling toolkit that can be used by societal partners to analyse the distribution of benefits from adaptation actions. During your PhD, you will have the opportunity to test the toolkits during workshops in the case-study areas outside of Europe.

**Your duties**
- you advance our scientific and societal understanding of equitable coastal adaptation for vulnerable households
- you set up and maintain professional contact with societal partners
- you disseminate your research findings through academic publications, conference presentations, and engagement with relevant stakeholders
- you contribute to teaching activities at the IVM

**Jouw profiel**:

- you enjoy using models to generate knowledge
- as DYNAMO is written in Python, your experience with Python is a Pré
- you feel connected to themes like climate justice, flood risk, and adaptive behaviour
- you completed a master degree in a related thematic field (such as Environmental Studies, Hydrology, Climate Science) or related methodological field (such as Computer Science, Econometrics, Complex systems science). This list is not exhaustive, if you feel your master degree fits, please apply

We realise that each individual brings a unique set of skills, expertise and mindset. Therefore we are happy to invite anyone who recognises themselves in the profile to apply, even if you do not fully meet all the requirements.

**Wat bieden wij**:
An interesting position in a socially engaged organisation. At VU Amsterdam, you contribute to education, research and service for a better world. And that is valuable. So in return for your efforts, we offer you:

- a salary of minimum € 2.901,00 (PhD scale 85.0) and maximum € 3.707,00 (PhD scale 85.3) gross per month in the fourth year, for a full-time employment.
- an employment contract of initially 1 year. If there is sufficient perspective, this will be extended to a total of 4 years. Your dissertation at the end of the fourth year forms the end of your employment contract.

We also offer you attractive fringe benefits and regulations. Some examples:

- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis. For part-timers, this is calculated pro rata.
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
- solid pension scheme (ABP)
- contribution to commuting expenses
- optional model for designing a personalized benefits package

Additionally, we also offer a PhD education programme including training for teaching assistants and courses that are part of the SENSE graduate school.

**Over ons**:
**Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)**
Established in 1971, IVM is a leading environmental research institute that is internationally recognised for its high quality research output in a range of environmental disciplines, as well as for its interdisciplinary work. The mission of the institute is to contribute to sustainable development and care for the environment through scientific research and teaching. IVM aims to do excellent problem-oriented research that is useful to a wide range of stakeholders in the Netherlands and internationally. A unique strength of our research is to understand sustainability problems in their social and economic context. IVM’s research community works within four departments: Environmental Economics; Environmental Geography, Environmental Policy Analysis; and Water and Climate Risk. Since 2001 IVM has been part of the Faculty of Science at VU Amsterdam (legal name Stichting VU).

The department of Water and Climate Risk studies hydrological and climate processes, and how these processes lead to risks and opportunities for society, the economy, and the environment. A defining characteristic of the department is a multi-disciplinary approach that combines expertise from natural sciences with knowledge from the fields of economics, e-Science and geography. This approach has led to a unique research portfolio of water and climate risk projects, and the department is a global leading institute in flood and drought risk assessment, and risk management research.

**Faculty of Science**
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