PhD and Postdoc positions on Flood Resilience studies at LMU Munich

[Emlyn Yang]

Dear colleagues,

I would very much appreciate it if you could help distribute the job announcements:

PhD and Postdoc positions on Flood Resilience studies in the ERC funded project STORIES at LMU Munich

The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) is one of the largest and most renowned universities in Germany. The Chair in Human Geography at the Department of Geography offers a PhD student position and a postdoctoral researcher position to support the research activities in the context of the European Research Council (ERC) project STORIES (ID: 101040939), led by Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang. This is a 5-year research project funded with 1.5M€ that will investigate the dynamic interactions of flood impacts and social resilience in the Mekong River basin. Based on the project, a small team will be established to do pioneering and impactful science on climate resilience.More about the project: https://www.geographie.uni-muenchen.de/department/fiona/forschung/projekte/index.php?projekt_id=342

Job announcement
→ A Postdoc position up to 3 years on methodological development for modeling flood resilience mainly using Agent-Based Model and/or Social Network Analysis. Application deadline on January 08, 2023.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/1b2f6b6f4b2d426735880cac3c6678040e00d3ad0?ref=homepage

→ A PhD student position focusing on case studies of flood resilience at the Mekong upstream areas in Southwest China (The Tea-Horse Road region in Sichuan and Yunnan Province). Application deadline on January 08, 2023.
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/d6daf26e9d46fd1d0ba756a7260918919ffc6b200?ref=homepage

→ A PhD student position in historical geography, to investigate past social resilience to flood hazards and its changes over a long historical period by collecting and analyzing various documented archives. This position targets Chinese applicants. Application deadline on January 15, 2023.
https://www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu/international-network/lmu-csc-scholarship-program/open-doctoral-positions/modeling-social-vulnerability-and-resilience-to-flood-hazards-garschagen-yang/index.html

For further information about the project or to discuss the positions please contact Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang by email (emlyn...@lmu.de).

With best wishes,
Emlyn
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Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang (杨亮, 字也明)
Research Group of Human-Environment Relations
Department of Geography
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)