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Dear Colleagues,

The School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University Belfast currently offers a fully funded PhD position (3 years with the possibility of a 1 year post-doctoral extension) as part of the UrbanARK project.

The UrbanARK project is an international multi-disciplinary collaboration between Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), University College Dublin (UCD) and New York University (NYU) funded under the US - Ireland Research & Development Programme.  The multinational project brings together leading researchers across the areas of geomatics, spatial data analysis, hydrology, computer science and risk communication to investigate innovative approaches for the collection and management of spatial data to refine flood risk assessments for urban coastal cities and to support immersive risk communication tools. 

The researcher will join the Centre for GIS and Geomatics and the Environmental Change & Resilience Research Group and will focus on the acquisition and analysis of mobile LiDAR Scanning and other Remote Sensing data in the urban environment and support the integration of these data into numerical flood risk models and immersive risk communication tools.  Research activities will include field-based activities in Belfast, Dublin and New York and data analysis in collaboration with collaborating research groups at UCD and NYU. 

Candidates are expected to hold a BSc/BEng 2(i) or higher and/or or an MSc/MEng in the areas of Geomatics, Geography, Geoscience, Environmental or Civil Engineering or related subject. Candidates should be numerate & familiar with IT; experience of Geographical Information Science (GIS) and digital data acquisition and analysis is advantageous.

For further details please refer to the below description and contact Dr. Jennifer McKinley ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Ulrich Ofterdinger ([log in to unmask]).

Please feel free to pass this opportunity on to any of your colleagues or students who may be interested.

Thanks, Ulrich

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Dr. Ulrich S. Ofterdinger

Queen's University Belfast
School of Natural and Built Environment
David Keir Building, Stranmillis Road,
Belfast BT9 5AG, Northern Ireland

Ph:  ++44-(0)28-90974517
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