Jobs:Job-01849
Start reviewing process: 21 July 2025
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Posting:
Position: Ph.D. students
Start reviewing process: 21 July 2025
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- Climate migration
- Resilient and just disaster management
- Modeling and analyzing coupled natural-human systems (or socio-hydrological systems)
- Quantitative analysis of social/collective decision-making and social tipping involving climate/weather/climate change
Ideal candidate should hold a Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Complex Systems Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field. Priority will be given to those with research experience in system modeling, agent-based modeling, network theory, causal discovery, and geospatial data analysis in the proposed topics as well as experience in handling hydrological data.
If you are interested, please fill the Google form: https://shorturl.at/UfbiY. For more questions, please send an email to woisok.oh@uwaterloo.ca with the subject [Prospective student inquiry - NAME] (please send emails only for any further questions, not for stating your interest).
Brief information on my group
Woi Sok (Woi) Oh will be joining the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor in August, 2025. His new research group will explore diverse interdisciplinary topics in Societal and Environmental (and Hydrological) Systems, including human migration, armed conflict, clean energy adoption, water resource management, climate mitigation, climate justice. To understand the underlying mechanisms of human-environment interaction, his group will develop and apply computational techniques from complex systems approaches.
Best,
Woi
Woi Sok (Woi) Oh, PhD
Incoming Assistant Professor
University of Waterloo
Department of Systems Design Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
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