Jobs:Job-00170
Apply before: 23 July 2020
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Position: PhD opportunities
Apply before: 23 July 2020
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Applications should be submitted online https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection by July 23 at 16:00 CET.
The above three topics are delineated below.
Grant 1 (proposed by Alberto Bellin)
Title: Risk analysis in surface and subsurface water bodies
This research program aims at developing a stochastic framework for modeling transport of contaminant in heterogeneous environments. Stochastic techniques will be combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to better reproduce the main environmental properties, such as the distribution of lithofacies in aquifers, as well as the boundary conditions and water uses, all affecting transport and transformation of contaminants in surface and subsurface water bodies. Artificial intelligence will be used as a way to filter out heterogeneities and drivers that influence only marginally the fate of the target contaminants.
To apply for this research topic please select curriculum A in the online application form: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
Grant 2 (proposed by Bruno Majone)
Title: Hydropower generation in the Italian Alpine region under a changing climate
The objective of this research program is to investigate the long-term evolution of hydropower generation in the Italian Alpine region by integrating the explicit simulation of (i) streamflow generation, (ii) human infrastructures present in the hydrological system, and (iii) electricity prices. The perspective PhD student will benefit from the existence of the large-scale hydrological model HYPERstreamHS recently developed by the Hydrology group of the University of Trento, a model which adopts a holistic approach to simulate hydrological processes in large river basins with streamflow altered by hydraulic infrastructures such as reservoirs and diversions.
To apply for this research topic please select curriculum A and then topic A1 (scholarship on reserved topics) in the online application form: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
Grant 3 (proposed by Giuseppe Formetta)
Title: Assessment of social and economic impacts caused by natural hazards in mountain regions
The objective of this research program is to investigate, implement, and apply novel approaches and local scale models for assessing impacts caused by natural hazards in mountain areas. The research will build on the existing Geoframe modeling system (http://abouthydrology.blogspot.com/2020/01/material-of-winter-school-2020-on.html), developing a rigorous framework for multi-hazard risk assessment that aims to:
- quantify the three fundamental component of the risk, i.e. hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, and to combine them in a multi-hazard framework, exploiting the most recent dataset and the more appropriate models;
- provide timely effective warnings (not just of the hazards but also) of the most probable sectorial impacts that may be triggered by multiple hazard conditions.
To apply for this research topic please select curriculum A and then topic A5 (scholarship on reserved topics) in the online application form: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1954/announcement-of-selection
The extended description of the research activities can be found at https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/538dd328-e905-4ba5-bb4a-9648228afb61/research%20subjects-36-ICAM.pdf.
Alberto Bellin (alberto.bellin@unitn.it)
Bruno Majone (bruno.majone@unitn.it)
