PhD: How Flood Risk Shapes Where Danes Live

Technical Sciences - Institut for Miljøvidenskab; Roskilde; On-site; DKK 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Aarhus University invites applications for a PhD fellowship in the Environmental Science programme. The project studies dynamic flood exposure in Denmark and how household location decisions shape risk and costs for climate adaptation.

The position starts 01 January 2027 or later. The work combines econometrics with register data, a discrete choice experiment, and agent-based modelling, with co-financing by DMI.

Qualifications

• M.Sc. in economics or spatial data analyses or a closely related quantitative field.
• Training in econometrics and experience with R, Python or Stata
• Good written and oral English

Responsibilities

• Conduct register-based analyses of who lives in flood-prone areas in Denmark.
• Develop hedonic price analyses of how flood risk is capitalized in housing prices.
• Estimate how households respond to explicit risk information using discrete choice methods.
• Integrate results into an agent-based model to project exposure trajectories under different scenarios.

Skills

Econometrics

R/Python/Stata

English proficiency

Education

M.Sc. in economics or spatial data analyses

Tools

R

Python

Stata

Job description

Aarhus University invites applications for a PhD fellowship in the Environmental Science programme. The project studies dynamic flood exposure in Denmark and how household location decisions shape risk and costs for climate adaptation.

The position starts 01 January 2027 or later. The work combines econometrics with register data, a discrete choice experiment, and agent-based modelling, with co-financing by DMI.