英国布里斯托大学招聘自然灾害方向博士后

This post is for a highly motivated individual wishing to join the Water and Environmental Management Research Centre (WEMRC) as a Postdoc Research Assistant (PDRA). You will work on a project jointly funded by NERC and ESRC in the UK and NSFC in China. The purpose of this role is to develop a holistic thinking framework and the next generation systems modelling platform for sustainable economic development considering social welfare and well-being to increase resilience to natural hazards in earthquake prone regions in China. You will liaise with the collaborating partners in China, make frequent fields trips in the earthquake regions in China (to communicate with local communities using a bilingual skill of Chinese and English), collect and analyse hazard information, study structural and non-structural mitigation measures, and implement a holistic decision support system in the pilot study site.

In particular, you will have the following responsibilities: 1) to develop a Disaster Risk Information System; 2) to study mechanisms and processes of interacting multi-hazards influenced by earthquakes, climate change and human activities; 3) to analyse holistic disaster risk assessments and mitigation measures; and 4) to develop a whole systems resilience modelling platform for sustainable economic development and social welfare.

This post is offered on a full time, open ended contract with funding for 3 years and a start date on 18th January 2016 or earlier.