Two Postdoc postitions at New School, New York

The New School’s Urban Systems Lab seeks TWO post-doctoral research scientists to join our team and the U.S. National Science Foundation funded Urban Resilience to Extreme Weather-related Events Sustainability Research Network (URExSRN) project. The two NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellows will be associated with the Urban Systems Lab at The New School. The focus of the first NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship will be to co-lead the spatial modeling of extreme events and their impacts on the social, ecological and technological domains of URExSRN cities, including New York City, Phoenix, Baltimore, Hermosillo, Valdivia, San Juan, Syracuse, Portland (Oregon), and Miami. The focus of the second NSFPostdoctoral Fellowships will be to develop spatially explicit scenarios using a Cellular Automata land use change model together with other suite of spatial sub-models (e.g. demographics, flooding, heat, green projections) to analyze how urban system change under possible alternate future scenarios for URExSRN cities. The Fellow will work closely with the URExSRN Scenario Working Group and will play a key role in the spatial analysis of future scenarios. More information about the URExSRN can be found on the “Projects” tab at urbansystemslab.com and at URExSRN.net. Postdoctoral research will include exploring options and opportunities for building resilience in project cities, improving the way current spatial models capture the complexities of extreme events impacts on urban systems (including population as well as infrastructure and ecosystems); the synergies among multiple extreme events (i.e. cascading effects); as well as their potential future impacts and interaction to other urban processes (land use change, demographic changes, etc.). The NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellow will participate in an ongoing research program in the Urban Systems Lab at The New School, be tightly connected to related research through the URExSRN project, and will develop new research based on their interest and expertise with faculty at The New School and with external colleagues on the project. See more information and to apply here: https://careers.newschool.edu/postings/15949