PhD positions at the University of Waterloo, Canada

[Woi Sok Oh]

Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting.

I am seeking fully funded Ph.D. students to join my new research group in the Dept. of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, starting as early as January 2026 (up to September 2026). I am looking for highly motivated students with strong computational and quantitative backgrounds who are interests in:

1. Climate migration
2. Resilient and just disaster management
3. Modeling and analyzing coupled natural-human systems
4. 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. 

If you are interested, please fill the Google form: https://shorturl.at/UfbiY. For more questions, please send an email to wois...@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 Systems, including human migration, armed conflict, clean energy adoption, 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 

 

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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

 

https://woisokoh.com