Postdoctoral researcher - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Lund University is ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. Lund University GIS Centre at the Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science is one of the world’s leading institutions in the field of Geographical Information Science. Besides strong scientific networks in Sweden, the centre has extensive international networks in Europe, USA, Africa, Middle East and Australia. LU GIS Centre is and has been involved in several national and international projects funded or supported by e.g EU, Swedish research agencies, Sida, and international organizations such as WHO. The research groups active at the GIS Centre cover a multitude of research areas that also connect to Physical Geography and Ecosystem sciences, engineering and social sciences. Among them one group focus on Geographical Information Science in hydrological modelling, flood and disaster management. The aim of this call is to employ a researcher with a very high scientific competence to join this research group.

Tasks
The researcher will work closely with other researchers in a team. The main responsibilities will be:

• to analyze and model watershed hydrology with impact in areas with a variety of land uses and land covers. There will be an emphasis on urban areas, but some catchments with mixed land uses (a mosaic of forest, agriculture, and urban) are of interest as well.
• to test and evaluate different hydrological and hydraulic models, both commercial and research models
• to develop GIS and spatial methods for urban flood impact estimations. Methods should facilitate collection, modelling and analyses of data for flood and disaster management planning and decision-making in municipal use.
• to evaluate the shortcomings of present modelling schemes in order to direct future research of modelling strategies
• to develop methods in the interface of modelling and GIS applications to facilitate the communication of spatially distributed flood impacts with different bodies in the society.
• to develop methods in the interface of modelling and GIS applications to improve the representation of terrain in distributed models, and to facilitate the easy representation of GIS-based datasets (terrain and otherwise) in the landscape representation used by distributed models.

Qualifications
The applicant shall have a PhD in hydrology, geographical information science, geomatics engineering or hydrologic engineering.

 She/he must have very good knowledge in:

• advanced hydrologic and hydraulic modelling
• spatial analysis
• computer programming for applications in both modelling and GIS environments

 She/he must have experience in:

• modelling in an extended urban flood management context
• modeling catchment hydrology in general
• working with terrain data and digital terrain analysis methods
• disaster management

Having experiences in supervision of master or PhD students is an advantage.
The working language is English. The applicant must be fluent in writing as well as in speech. Written academic work should be documented and linked or attached to the application.