Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Spatial Analysis/Urban Modelling (M/F)
The University of Luxembourg has the following vacancy in its Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre, IPSE Research Unit, Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education.
http://geo.ipse.uni.lu/
Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Spatial Analysis/Urban Modelling (M/F)
- 3-year fixed term contract, renewable once, 40 hours/week
- Ref: F3-120008 – Online Offer UOL00063
- Student AND employee status
Doctoral candidate (PhD student) in Spatial Analysis/Urban Modelling (M/F)
- 3-year fixed term contract, renewable once, 40 hours/week
- Ref: F3-120008 – Online Offer UOL00063
- Student AND employee status
Tasks
Profile
Our offer
Additional Information
Please apply online until February 14th, 2012 at http://recruitment.uni.lu/
- Prepare a doctoral thesis in Geography, particularly within the following fields:
- - Spatial econometrics and statistics for urban processes
- - Exploratory spatial data analysis and data mining for urban data
- - Urban simulation models (agent-based, cellular-automata, dynamic systems)
- - Urban economics
- - Landscape and urban patterns analysis
- - Advanced computer cartography, geovisualisation and geoanalytics
- Assist in teaching activities, one to three hours per week.
- Contribute to tutoring Master students (especially from www.spatial.uni.lu)
Profile
- Master in Geography, Urban/Regional Economics or Urban Planning, or a Master in Science (Environmental, Mathematics, Physics…) with experience in geographical issues
- Strong interest in developing/using models and quantitative methods in Social Science with geographical perspective
- Proficient in Mathematics, Statistics, and GIS/cartography
- Experience with standard statistical software (R, Stata,…) and geographical packages (spdep, geoDA, PySAL, …) and/or mathematical software (Mathematica, Matlab, Scilab,…) and/or proven programing skills
- Interest for interdisciplinary work
-Good command of English. (Knowledge of French or German is a plus)
Our offer
- Opportunity to participate in the development of a newly created university
- An exciting international environment
- A competitive salary
- Well-equipped research facilities
Additional Information
- Applications (in English) should contain the following documents:
- - A detailed curriculum vitae
- - Copies of Master Diploma
- - Motivation Letter
- - Support letter from at least one recent scientific advisor/professor
- - A phD proposal (min 2000, max 2500 words excluding bibliography) using the following format:
- - - 1. Introduction and literature review
- - - 2. Research objectives and expected contribution to the field
- - - 3. Innovation/originality
- - - 4. Methodology (including intended dataset to be used if empirical analysis)
- - - 5. Work plan and expected timetable
- - - 6. Bibliography
Please apply online until February 14th, 2012 at http://recruitment.uni.lu/
See offer UOL00063
