Postdoctoral Researcher on Decision Support for Flood Risk Reduction

You will work in a team at the Centre for Disaster Resilience (CDR) of the ITC Faculty on the societal challenge of engaging multiple stakeholders in effective flood-risk mitigation decisions. The goal of the project is to co-design, test, and implement a user-friendly interactive decision support tool for collaboratively defining flood-risk reduction interventions in a multi-stakeholder setting. The project will make use of facilities and tools of the Design and Interactive Space for Co-creating (DISC) at ITC.

You will conduct a literature review on flood hazard-related collaborative decision-making and stakeholder analysis for two international case studies. You will then develop and implement a co-design process to elicit features and functions of the collaborative flood risk decision support tool, and develop the decision support tool in an open-source software environment (a basic version of the tool, OGITO, has been developed in earlier projects).

You present and publish results and findings from the project in suitable peer-reviewed journals and at international conferences, support the development of EU, NWO, JPI, or Belmont Forum proposals in the field of disaster risk management and support the development of educational materials on flood risk reduction and collaborative decision making.

The Centre for Disaster Resilience (CDR), within the Faculty for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), focuses on a synergetic and common effort to increase the well-being and the global sustainable growth by significantly decreasing disaster risk. For more information about the CDR, ITC and UT please see the following links: CDR and ITC.

The CDR is committed to providing a working environment where everyone is valued, respected and supported to progress. Our priority is to ensure that no-one is disadvantaged based on their ethnicity, gender, culture, disability, LGBTIQA+ identities, family and caring responsibilities, age, or religion. We encourage everyone who meets the selection criteria and shares the CDR's values to apply.