Postdoc: Forecasting Dengue with Climate and Public Sentiment

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Amsterdam; In loco; EUR 41.000 - 64.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Holiday leave 232 hours/year (38h week

8% holiday allowance

8.3% end-of-year bonus

ABP pension

commuting expenses

Personalized benefits package

Descrizione del lavoro

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam invites applications for a position in the FEEL project to investigate whether emotions expressed in news and public social media can improve dengue forecasts alongside climate information. The role is based at VU Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies and runs for eight months.

The duties include developing emotion-derived indicators, integrating them with surveillance data, building forecasting models, and documenting methods for reproducible research.

Competenze

• PhD in a quantitative discipline relevant to climate, environment or health.
• Experience with statistical modelling of climate impacts, health outcomes or social vulnerability.
• Strong programming skills in Python or R; experience with spatial/temporal data integration.
• Willingness to learn text analysis and emotion detection methods.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate across disciplines; excellent 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 and climate data.
• Build and validate forecasting models to test predictive value of emotion indicators.
• Assess usefulness of indicators across locations and lead times; document methods and code.

Conoscenze

Python or R programming

Statistical modelling

Spatial data analysis

Independent collaboration

English proficiency

Formazione

PhD in climate science

PhD in environmental science

PhD in physics or related quantitative discipline

Descrizione del lavoro

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam invites applications for a position in the FEEL project to investigate whether emotions expressed in news and public social media can improve dengue forecasts alongside climate information. The role is based at VU Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies and runs for eight months.

The duties include developing emotion-derived indicators, integrating them with surveillance data, building forecasting models, and documenting methods for reproducible research.