Phd Position Explainable Decision Support for Urban

4 maanden geleden

Delft, Nederland TU Delft Voltijd

PhD Position Explainable Decision Support for Urban Climate Extremes-
Job description

Increasing heat stress and environmental degradation affect urban lives and livelihoods across Europe and globally. Environmental injustice and climate change often affect the poorest, and extreme weather patterns cause billions of losses. While digital twins offer the opportunity to put advances in science and technology to use for improved decision making for climate
- and hazard preparedness, a gap is in translating the modelling results into contextualised decision support that takes into account the cognitive and behavioural aspects of decision-making.
- and long-term implications. Often, especially hard to quantify aspects such as quality of life in a city are neglected in favour of quantitative measures such as cost. In addition, efforts to make complex models or multiple scenarios palatable to decision-makers often lead to over-simplification or over-fitting, neglecting important nuances and trade-offs. Finally, while many decisions in practice are made in groups, models and efforts to establish explainable tools often focus on supporting a single decision-maker. What is missing are systematic approaches that (a) allow groups of decision-makers explore moral dilemmas within urban climate problems; and (b) systematic approaches that balance the complexity of the model results and scenarios with the decision context.

This PhD position is embedded in the EU project Urban Air with almost 20 partners across Europe from academia, policy and practice. Within Urban Air, we pursue an ambitious and extensive programme that considers climate change, urban planning and digital

**Requirements**:

- A Master’s degree (or nearly finished) in Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics/Mathematics, Policy Analysis, or a related field (essential).
- Experience working with empirical datasets, models and (geospatial) programming skills (e.g. preferably Python or R) (essential).
- Excellent study results and excellent command of English (essential).
- Strong motivation to do scientific research on urban analytics and especially equity and moral aspects of heat and air quality (essential).
- A willingness to work in a multidisciplinary research environment, and interest to conduct empirical research with stakeholders and communicate results to policymakers (essential).
- A demonstrable interest in, or knowledge of, integrating problem structuring techniques and different preferential models or xAI within quantitative modelling frameworks (desirable).

Conditions of employment

The TU Delft offers a customisable compensation package, discounts on health insurance, and a monthly work costs contribution. Flexible work schedules can be arranged.

For international applicants, TU Delft has the Coming to Delft Service. This service provides information for new international employees to help you prepare the relocation and to settle in the Netherlands. The Coming to Delft Service offers a Dual Career Programme for partners and they organise events to expand your (social) network.

TU Delft (Delft University of Technology)

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

Challenge. Change. Impact

Faculty Technology, Policy and Management

The Faculty of TPM provides an important contribution to solving complex technical-social issues, such as energy transition, mobility, digitalisation, water management and (cyber) security. TPM does this with its excellent education and research at the intersection of technology, society and policy. We combine insights from both engineering and social sciences as well as the humanities. TPM develops robust models and designs, is internationally oriented and has an extensive network of knowledge institutions, companies, social organisations and governments.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management.

Additional information

The department Engineering Systems and Services (ESS) offers a 4-year PhD position on developing decision support for urban climate extremes in the context of the EU project Urban Air.

Application procedure
- Curriculum Vitae (CV);
- Two-page motivation letter indicating your research interests and experience, and how you bring both to this project. We invite you to also record a short video, in which you can explain your motivation and background.
- Diplomas/degrees including a grade transcript of previous education at Bachelor and Master level (or preliminary grade transcrip

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