Climate-Health Forecasting Researcher: Emotions & Dengue

EURAXESS Ireland; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 41,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fringe benefits

8% holiday allowance

8.3% end-of-year bonus

Commuting expense contribution

Job summary

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) invites applications for a temporary research position within the FEEL project, hosted at the Institute for Environmental Studies. You will explore whether emotions detected in news and social media can enhance dengue forecasts alongside climate data, contributing to climate-health research.

The role requires a PhD in a quantitative field, strong programming skills in Python or R, and the ability to work independently while collaborating across disciplines in

Qualifications

• PhD in climate science, environmental science, physics or a related quantitative discipline.
• Experience with statistical modelling of climate impacts, health outcomes or social vulnerability.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R and experience combining and analysing spatial and temporal datasets.
• Excellent written and spoken English; ability to communicate across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate methods to derive indicators of human emotions from news and public social media and integrate them with dengue surveillance records and climate data.
• Build and validate forecasting models to test whether emotion indicators improve predictions beyond climate and past dengue incidence.
• Assess the usefulness of these indicators across locations and lead times.
• Prepare a scientific manuscript and document your methods and code for reproducible research.

Education

PhD in climate science or related field

Tools

Python

R

Spatial analysis

Job description

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) invites applications for a temporary research position within the FEEL project, hosted at the Institute for Environmental Studies. You will explore whether emotions detected in news and social media can enhance dengue forecasts alongside climate data, contributing to climate-health research.

The role requires a PhD in a quantitative field, strong programming skills in Python or R, and the ability to work independently while collaborating across disciplines in