Postdoc: Climate-Resilient Hydrology & Infrastructure Design

DTU - Technical University of Denmark; Kongens Lyngby; On-site; DKK 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel budget

Job summary

DTU Sustain invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to advance risk-based design of climate-resilient water systems across hydrological scales and hazards. You will work in the Water Systems Section at the Lyngby campus, contributing to the CEBE programme and collaborating with Danish and international partners.

You will develop and apply statistical and machine‑learning methods for extremes, engage stakeholders, publish in leading journals, and supervise junior researchers.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in civil or environmental engineering, hydrology/earth sciences, data science/applied statistics or similar.
• Experience with extreme value statistics and machine learning for modeling spatial/temporal variability.
• Interdisciplinary, international collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Strengthen competencies in hydrological extremes and data science across scales and hazards.
• Develop and harmonise statistical and ML methods for extreme value analysis and regionalisation.
• Engage with industry and government stakeholders to ensure relevance of outputs.
• Access and publish standardized data sets on hydrological extremes in collaboration with colleagues.

Skills

Hydrological extremes

Data science

Python scripting

Non-stationarity analysis

Education

PhD in civil or environmental engineering

Tools

INLA-SPDE

Graph Neural Networks

Job description

DTU Sustain invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to advance risk-based design of climate-resilient water systems across hydrological scales and hazards. You will work in the Water Systems Section at the Lyngby campus, contributing to the CEBE programme and collaborating with Danish and international partners.

You will develop and apply statistical and machine‑learning methods for extremes, engage stakeholders, publish in leading journals, and supervise junior researchers.