{"data":{"id":181485,"slug":"postdoktor-inom-geografisk-informationsvetenskap-gis","type":"job","title":"Postdoctoral Researcher in Geographic Information Science (GIS)","description":"Lund University was founded in 1666 and is consistently ranked among the world's leading academic institutions. With approximately 46,000 students and 8,500 employees in Lund, Helsingborg, and Malm\u00f6, we are united in our mission to understand, explain, and improve our world and people's living conditions.\nThis position focuses on GIS and the resilience of transport systems in relation to extreme weather events, with particular emphasis on compiling and evaluating existing scientific knowledge. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to a knowledge overview of how extreme weather events affect transport infrastructure, mobility, accessibility, and transport-related vulnerability, as well as what methods and strategies exist to strengthen the resilience of transport systems.\n\nJob Responsibilities\nAs a postdoctoral researcher, your primary responsibility will be to conduct research. Teaching may be included in your duties, but not exceeding one-fifth of your working time. The position includes the opportunity for three weeks of university pedagogical training.\nSpecific responsibilities include:\nReview, assess, and synthesize existing research on how extreme weather events impact transport infrastructure, transport networks, travel behavior, mobility, and accessibility.\nDevelop a publicly accessible Web-GIS platform to explore and analyze the knowledge base by geography, type of weather-related hazard, infrastructure, population groups, and climate adaptation measures.\nConduct studies to assess and strengthen transport system resilience using GIS, complex network analysis, and machine learning.\nSimulate human mobility in response to extreme weather events (e.g., floods and heat waves) using agent-based modeling.\nPublish research results at scientific conferences and in high-impact scientific journals.\nSupervise bachelor's and master's theses.\nPerform administrative tasks related to the above responsibilities.\n\nQualifications\nTo be eligible for appointment as a postdoctoral researcher, you must hold a doctoral degree (PhD) or an equivalent foreign degree within the field of the position, obtained no more than three years before the date of the employment decision. If there are special circumstances, the doctoral degree may have been obtained earlier.\n\nAdditional Requirements:\nResearch competence in GIS, including documented knowledge of GIS, spatial analysis, spatial modeling, and GeoAI.\nExperience and competence in Web-GIS development and strong knowledge of central technologies in the field, such as web interface development, web cartography, spatial databases, and web services.\nExperience and competence in graph-based deep learning for intelligent transport infrastructure and transport systems.\nExperience and competence in simulation and prediction of human mobility using agent-based modeling and deep learning methods.\nVery strong Python programming skills for processing, modeling, and data mining of geospatial data.\nScientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals of high quality within a relevant research field, with particular emphasis on experience publishing scientific review articles.\nVery strong ability to express yourself orally and in writing in English.\nGood collaboration skills and ability to work in an interdisciplinary research environment.\nVery strong knowledge of English, both spoken and written.\n\nEvaluation Criteria\nThis is a research-focused merit-based position intended as an initial step in your career. The evaluation of applicants will primarily be based on their scientific merits and potential as a researcher.\nParticular weight will be given to scientific competence within the field.\nThe following will form the basis for evaluation when appointing a postdoctoral researcher:\nGood ability to develop and conduct high-quality research based on the above requirements.\n\nAdditional meritorious evaluation criteria include:\nKnowledge and experience in cloud technologies and solutions for monitoring and automation.\nExperience with foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs).\nTeaching experience in GIS-related courses at the bachelor's and master's levels.\nExperience supervising bachelor's and master's theses.\n\nConsideration will also be given to good collaboration skills, initiative and independence, and how your experience and competence are assessed to complement and strengthen ongoing research within the department and contribute to its future development.\n\nTerms of Employment\nThe position is time-limited to a maximum of 2 years at 100% full-time. The employment is time-limited in accordance with the agreement \"Agreement on Time-Limited Employment as a Postdoctoral Researcher,\" between labor market parties dated 2022-02-01 (Swedish Agency for Government Employers, OFR's, and Saco-S). Desired start date: 2026-11-01.\n\nApplication Instructions\nApplications should be written in English and include:\nMerit list\/CV including publication list.\nA general description of previous research work and future research interests (maximum three pages).\nContact information for at least two references.\nCopy of your doctoral degree certificate and any other certificates\/grades you wish to reference.\n\nWe welcome your application!\nAt the Faculty of Science, research and education are conducted in astronomy, biology, physics, geosciences, chemistry, mathematics, medical radiation physics, environmental science, and physical geography. Activities are carried out in the northern university area. The Faculty has approximately 1,900 students, 330 doctoral students, and 730 employees.\nDue to government procurement regulations, we do not accept contact from advertising agents, recruitment, and staffing companies.\n\nOpen to Everyone\nWe focus on your competence, not your other circumstances. We are open to adapting the role or workplace to suit your needs.","language":"sv","is_translated":true,"title_original":"Postdoktor inom Geografisk informationsvetenskap (GIS)","description_original":"Lunds universitet grundades 1666 och rankas \u00e5terkommande som ett av v\u00e4rldens fr\u00e4msta l\u00e4ros\u00e4ten. H\u00e4r finns omkring 46 000 studenter och 8 500 medarbetare i Lund, Helsingborg och Malm\u00f6. Vi f\u00f6renas i v\u00e5r str\u00e4van att f\u00f6rst\u00e5, f\u00f6rklara och f\u00f6rb\u00e4ttra v\u00e5r v\u00e4rld och m\u00e4nniskors villkor.\nTj\u00e4nsten \u00e4r inriktad p\u00e5 GIS och transportsystemens resiliens i samband med extrema v\u00e4derh\u00e4ndelser, med s\u00e4rskilt fokus p\u00e5 att sammanst\u00e4lla och utv\u00e4rdera befintlig vetenskaplig kunskap. Postdoktorn kommer att bidra till en kunskaps\u00f6versikt \u00f6ver hur extrema v\u00e4derh\u00e4ndelser p\u00e5verkar transportinfrastruktur, mobilitet, tillg\u00e4nglighet och transportrelaterad s\u00e5rbarhet, samt vilka metoder och strategier som finns f\u00f6r att st\u00e4rka transportsystemens resiliens.\nArbetsuppgifter\nI arbetsuppgifterna som postdoktor ing\u00e5r fr\u00e4mst att bedriva forskning. Undervisning kan ing\u00e5 i arbetsuppgifterna, dock h\u00f6gst en femtedel av arbetstiden. Inom ramen f\u00f6r anst\u00e4llningen ska det ges m\u00f6jlighet till tre veckors h\u00f6gskolepedagogisk utbildning.\nDe specifika arbetsuppgifterna omfattar:\nGranska, bed\u00f6ma och syntetisera befintlig forskning om hur extrema v\u00e4derh\u00e4ndelser p\u00e5verkar transportinfrastruktur, transportn\u00e4tverk, res beteende, mobilitet och tillg\u00e4nglighet.\nUtveckla en publikt tillg\u00e4nglig Webb-GIS-plattform f\u00f6r att utforska och analysera kunskapsunderlag utifr\u00e5n geografi, typ av v\u00e4derrelaterad fara, infrastruktur, befolkningsgrupper och klimatanpassnings\u00e5tg\u00e4rder.\nGenomf\u00f6ra studier f\u00f6r att bed\u00f6ma och st\u00e4rka transportsystemens resiliens med hj\u00e4lp av GIS, komplex n\u00e4tverksanalys och maskininl\u00e4rning.\nSimulera m\u00e4nniskors mobilitet som respons p\u00e5 extrema v\u00e4derh\u00e4ndelser (t.ex. \u00f6versv\u00e4mningar och v\u00e4rmeb\u00f6ljor) med hj\u00e4lp av agentbaserad modellering.\nPublicera forskningsresultat vid vetenskapliga konferenser och i vetenskapliga tidskrifter med h\u00f6g genomslagskraft.\nHandleda kandidat- och masteruppsatser.\nUtf\u00f6ra administrativa arbetsuppgifter kopplade till ovanst\u00e5ende arbetsuppgifter.\n\nBeh\u00f6righet\nBeh\u00f6rig att anst\u00e4llas som postdoktor \u00e4r den som avlagt doktorsexamen, eller utl\u00e4ndsk examen som bed\u00f6ms motsvara doktorsexamen, inom anst\u00e4llningens \u00e4mnesomr\u00e5de och som avlagts h\u00f6gst tre \u00e5r f\u00f6re datum f\u00f6r anst\u00e4llningsbeslut. Om det finns s\u00e4rskilda sk\u00e4l kan doktorsexamen ha avlagts tidigare.\n\u00d6vriga krav:\nForskningskompetens inom GIS, inklusive dokumenterade kunskaper inom GIS, rumslig analys, rumslig modellering och GeoAI.\nErfarenhet och kompetens inom Webb-GIS-utveckling samt goda kunskaper om centrala tekniker inom omr\u00e5det, s\u00e5som utveckling av webbgr\u00e4nssnitt, webbkartografi, rumsliga databaser och webbtj\u00e4nster.\nErfarenhet och kompetens inom grafbaserad djupinl\u00e4rning f\u00f6r intelligenta transportinfrastrukturer och transportsystem.\nErfarenhet och kompetens inom simulering och prediktion av m\u00e4nsklig mobilitet med hj\u00e4lp av agentbaserad modellering och djupinl\u00e4rningsmetoder.\nMycket goda kunskaper i Python-programmering f\u00f6r bearbetning, modellering och datautvinning av geospatiala data.\nVetenskapliga publikationer i internationella sakkunniggranskade tidskrifter av h\u00f6g kvalitet inom ett relevant forskningsomr\u00e5de, med s\u00e4rskild vikt vid erfarenhet av att publicera vetenskapliga \u00f6versiktsartiklar.\nMycket god f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att uttrycka sig i tal och skrift p\u00e5 engelska.\nGod samarbetsf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga och f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att arbeta i en tv\u00e4rvetenskaplig forskningsmilj\u00f6.\nMycket goda kunskaper i engelska, i tal och skrift.\n\n\u00a0\nBed\u00f6mningsgrunder\nDetta \u00e4r en meriterings anst\u00e4llning fr\u00e4mst inriktad p\u00e5 forskning. Anst\u00e4llningen \u00e4r t\u00e4nkt som ett inledande steg i karri\u00e4ren och bed\u00f6mningen av de s\u00f6kande kommer i f\u00f6rsta hand att baseras p\u00e5 deras vetenskapliga meriter och potential som forskare.\nS\u00e4rskild vikt kommer att f\u00e4stas vid vetenskaplig f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga inom \u00e4mnesomr\u00e5det.\nVid anst\u00e4llning av postdoktor ska f\u00f6ljande utg\u00f6ra grund f\u00f6r bed\u00f6mning:\nGod f\u00f6rm\u00e5ga att utveckla och genomf\u00f6ra forskning av god kvalitet, baserat p\u00e5 ovanst\u00e5ende krav.\n\nYtterligare meriterande bed\u00f6mningskriterier \u00e4r:\nKunskap och erfarenhet inom molnteknik samt l\u00f6sningar f\u00f6r \u00f6vervakning och automatisering.\nErfarenhet av grundmodeller (foundation models) och stora spr\u00e5kmodeller (Large Language Models, LLM).\nErfarenhet av undervisning i GIS-relaterade kurser p\u00e5 kandidat- och masterniv\u00e5.\nErfarenhet av handledning av kandidat- och masteruppsatser.\n\n\nH\u00e4nsyn kommer ocks\u00e5 att tas till god samarbetsf\u00f6rm\u00e5ga, driv och sj\u00e4lvst\u00e4ndighet samt hur den s\u00f6kande genom sin erfarenhet och kompetens bed\u00f6ms komplettera och st\u00e4rka p\u00e5g\u00e5ende forskning inom institutionen samt bidra till dess framtida utveckling.\nVillkor\nAnst\u00e4llningen \u00e4r tidsbegr\u00e4nsad till max 2 \u00e5r och avser 100% heltid. Anst\u00e4llningen tidsbegr\u00e4nsas enligt avtal, \u201cAvtal om tidsbegr\u00e4nsad anst\u00e4llning som postdoktor\u201d, mellan arbetsmarknadens parter daterat 2022-02-01 (Arbetsgivarverket, OFR:s, och Saco-S). \u00d6nskat startdatum 2026-11-01.\n\u00a0\nInstruktioner f\u00f6r ans\u00f6kan\nAns\u00f6kan ska skrivas p\u00e5 engelska och inneh\u00e5lla:\nMeritf\u00f6rteckning\/CV inklusive publikationslista.\nEn generell beskrivning av tidigare forskningsarbete och framtida forskningsintressen (max tre sidor).\nKontaktuppgifter till minst tv\u00e5 referenser.\nKopia av examensbevis f\u00f6r doktorsexamen samt ev. andra intyg\/betyg som du \u00f6nskar \u00e5beropa.\n\nV\u00e4lkommen med din ans\u00f6kan!\nVid Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten bedrivs forskning och utbildning inom astronomi, biologi fysik, geovetenskap, kemi, matematik, medicinsk str\u00e5lningsfysik, milj\u00f6vetenskap och naturgeografi. Verksamheten bedrivs inom norra universitetsomr\u00e5det. Fakulteten har ca 1 900 studenter, 330 forskarstuderande och 730 anst\u00e4llda.\nVi undanber oss alla kontakter fr\u00e5n annonsf\u00f6rs\u00e4ljare, rekryterings- och bemanningsf\u00f6retag p\u00e5 grund av statliga upphandlingsregler.\n\n\u00d6ppen f\u00f6r alla\nVi fokuserar p\u00e5 din kompetens, inte dina \u00f6vriga f\u00f6ruts\u00e4ttningar. 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