Postdoc: Dengue Forecasting with Emotions & Climate

Unist; Amsterdam; Ibrido; EUR 41.000 - 64.000; Part-time

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Salary: UFO Researcher 4 scale

8% holiday allowance

8.3% end-of-year bonus

Commuting contribution

Personalized benefits package

Descrizione del lavoro

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam seeks a researcher for the FEEL project to explore how emotions from news and social media can improve dengue forecasts alongside climate data. Based in the Institute for Environmental Studies, you will connect human behaviour, climate, and health through innovative modelling.

The role requires a PhD in a quantitative discipline, strong programming skills in Python or R, and experience with spatial-temporal data. 8 months, 0.8 FTE, temporary contract.

Competenze

• A PhD in climate science, environmental science, physics or a related quantitative discipline is required by start date.
• Experience with statistical modelling of climate impacts, health outcomes or social vulnerability.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R and experience combining spatial and temporal data.
• Willingness to learn text analysis and emotion detection methods; prior experience is welcome but not required.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across disciplines with strong written and spoken English.

Mansioni

• Develop and evaluate methods to derive indicators of human emotions from news and social media.
• Integrate emotion indicators with dengue surveillance records and climate data for forecasting.
• Build and validate forecasting models to test emissions of emotion indicators on predictions.
• Assess usefulness of indicators across locations and lead times; document methods and code.
• Prepare a scientific manuscript and contribute to reproducible research.

Conoscenze

Python

R programming

Statistical modelling

Spatial data analysis

English communication

Formazione

PhD in climate science, environmental science, physics or related quantitative discipline

Strumenti

Python

R

GIS

Descrizione del lavoro

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam seeks a researcher for the FEEL project to explore how emotions from news and social media can improve dengue forecasts alongside climate data. Based in the Institute for Environmental Studies, you will connect human behaviour, climate, and health through innovative modelling.

The role requires a PhD in a quantitative discipline, strong programming skills in Python or R, and experience with spatial-temporal data. 8 months, 0.8 FTE, temporary contract.