Jobs:Job-00092
Apply before: 5 February 2020
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Position: Postdoc position
Apply before: 5 February 2020
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The initial appointment will be for 1 year. An extension of an additional 3.5 years (i.e. the full remaining duration of the TRANSCEND project) is envisaged, subject to satisfactory work performance and positive evaluation. Remuneration will be according to the German TV-L scheme, at the E14 level and on a step commensurate with work experience. While this is a full-time position in principle, part time solutions are negotiable. Further career development will be supported. The position allows for pursuing a habilitation. The office is located in the centre of Munich, with excellent public transport links. Applications from suitably qualified women candidates are particularly encouraged. Severely disabled applicants are given preferential consideration in the event of equal qualification.
About us:
The research group around the chair for human geography works on risk, adaptation and transformation in the context of environmental hazards, climate change, urbanization and other dimensions of global change. The section develops, tests and imparts inter- and transdisciplinary methods for the assessment of future development paths and risk trends as well as for the multi-criteria evaluation of potential strategies for fos-tering sustainability and transformation, particularly in cities and newly urbanizing areas. While pursuing a global perspective, the sections empirical research is particularly focused on Asia, Africa and Europe. Next to fundamental research, the section is keen to deliver scientific knowledge that is of high practical and poli-cy relevance and provides decision support. The section therefore collaborates closely with decision makers and stakeholders from the local to the global level, e.g. urban administrations, United Nations programs and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
The TRANSCEND project (Transformation Decisions for the Adaptation and Sustainability of Cities in the Face of Environmental and Socio-economic Change) is a five-year transdisciplinary research undertaking. Focusing on high-risk coastal cities, it is composed of three interlocking work streams: (1) An integrated model will be developed which combines the assessment of future hazard trends with scenarios of future urban development trajectories and resulting exposure and vulnerability dynamics at the city to sub-city scale. (2) In close cooperation with practical partners, the range of adaptation options will be identified and evaluated, against a novel multi-criteria framework developed within the project. (3) Decision-support tools for the analysis and guidance of risk governance, balancing the interests in multi-stakeholder urban con-texts, will be developed. While Mumbai and Jakarta, two of the most rapidly growing and hazard exposed cities globally, will form the two pilot cities for the method development and analysis, the project aims to develop transferable tools whose application to other high-risk cities will be facilitated through multiplier activities in Asia and beyond.
Responsibilities and tasks:
- Support the chair in leading and synchronizing the different research streams within TRANSCEND;
- Under the supervision of the chair, take a leading role in managing TRANSCEND;
- Develop and implement own research activities within either of the TRANSCEND streams;
- Conduct field work in Mumbai and Jakarta;
- Supervise household surveys in Mumbai and Jakarta;
- Organize and implement workshops in Mumbai, Jakarta and Munich;
- Support the chair and local project partners in the local administration of the project in Mumbai and Jakarta;
- Supervise the integration of the different data and modelling streams within TRANSCEND;
- Ideally lead the activities on the urban growth, exposure and vulnerability modelling within TRANS-CEND;
- Contribute to scientific publications and communication materials of TRANSCEND;
- Help mentoring the three PhD students and two international fellows of TRANSCEND;
- Participate in national and international conferences as well as project events in Germany and glob-ally;
