Uppsala University is a comprehensive research-intensive university with a strong international standing. Their goal is to conduct education and research. The university has over 54,000 students, more than 7,500 employees and a turnover of around SEK 8 billion.
The postdoc will contribute to the Department’s strategic research area of Natural Hazards, and specifically to the development of new data-driven approaches for a better quantification of natural hazard-related impacts. A broad range of natural hazards will be investigated, including extreme climate and hydro-logical events, volcanic and seismic disasters and cascading events. A specific interest is the automated collection and analysis of data on impacts of natural hazards from text-based sources, although other relevant approaches may also be considered.
The Centre of Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS), with which the researcher will be affiliated, is a research center that brings together social, engineering and earth scientists from different departments at Uppsala University, Swedish Defense University, and Karlstad Universit.
Duties
The postdoc will contribute to the Department’s strategic research area of Natural Hazards, and specifically to the development of new data-driven approaches for a better quantification of natural hazard-related impacts. A broad range of natural hazards will be investigated, including extreme climate and hydro-logical events, volcanic and seismic disasters and cascading events. A specific interest is the automated collection and analysis of data on impacts of natural hazards from text-based sources, although other relevant approaches may also be considered.
Requirements
PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Meteorology, Geophysics, Geology, Hydrology or related disciplines or a foreign degree equivalent to a PhD degree. The degree needs to be obtained by the time of the decision of employment. Those who have obtained a PhD degree three years prior to the application deadline are primarily considered for the employment. The starting point of the three-year frame period is the application deadline. Due to special circumstances, the degree may have been obtained earlier. The three-year period can be extended due to circumstances such as sick leave, parental leave, duties in labour unions, etc. The applicants must be proficient in spoken and written English.)
Additional qualifications
Prior experience in natural language processing, automated extraction of information from textual sources or implementation of machine learning algorithms will be evaluated positively, as well as ability to interact effectively in a multi-disciplinary research environment.
The application should contain:
- A Curriculum Vitae.
- A short research statement (maximum 1 page) describing how the candidate’s past experience is relevant to the topic of the project and what approaches the candidate proposes towards the automated collection of data on impacts of natural hazard events from textual sources.
- A list of publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Please only include accepted/published papers and not papers to be submitted or in review.
- Two references (names and full contact details, including telephone number). Please do not include support letters.
About the employment
The employment is a temporary position of 2 years according to central collective agreement. Scope of employment 100 %. Starting date 15-03-2023 or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala.
For further information about the position, please contact:
Gabriele Messori (gabriele.messori@geo.uu.se), Abigail Barker (abigail.barker@geo.uu.se) or Björn Lund (bjorn.lund@geo.uu.se)
Please submit your application by 16 December 2022, UFV-PA 2022/3997.
More information can be found here.
