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PhD position in Agent-based Modeling for Inspection Simulations

 Join our exciting research project as PhD candidate at Utrecht University and become part of the research collaboration AI4Oversight lab 

 which is part of the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) 
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The Dutch government inspectorates play a critical role in safeguarding public interests such as food safety, a clean environment, fair working conditions or quality of education. To ensure effective supervision with a limited capacity at strategic and operational level, inspectorates need to work in a data-driven way and embed AI technology in their primary processes. The amount of information is too large and complex to be fully covered by human resources. At the same time, society rightly expects AI to be used in a responsible manner.

With joining the AI4Oversight ICAI lab, you join a community that collaborates to address AI challenges specific to the inspection domain leading to scientifically assured methods. The AI4Oversight lab connects the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT), the Netherlands Labour Authority (NLA), the Inspectorate of Education (IvhO), Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht University and Leiden University. Collaboration between these organisations is seen as an essential element of our lab. Working together allows not only to develop new knowledge, but also to use each other’s expertise, to experiment together, to learn from each other and to bring theory to practice.

The execution of the research will be highly participatory. You will spend time at the offices of funding partners and have the opportunity to dive into the practical challenges and way of working of the partners. You will work together with data scientists of the practical partners, who will contribute with practical experiences and use cases. The AI4Oversight Lab hosts at least 6 PhD students and knowledge exchanges will be held regularly to promote collaboration. We are currently recruiting for 3 PhD positions simultaneously for this lab. We invite you to also check out the other interesting vacancies 

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In this PhD position you will focus on simulating the inspection processes. Strategies that inspectorates use for selection of targets and enforcement in response to non-compliances invoke changes in the behaviour of the target population. In turn these changes invoke updates in the strategies of the inspectors. It is difficult—if not impossible—to study and test the interactions between an inspectorates’ actions and the behaviour of inspectees outside of a lab setting because of practical and ethical constraints. In this project we aim to develop data-driven agent-based models to study these behavioural dynamics in a synthetic environment, and thereby enabling the evaluation of (data-driven) inspection strategies before field deployment, while testing for effectiveness, robustness, and fairness of target selection strategies.

Key responsibilities:

  • Conduct original and novel research in the field of data-driven simulations and large-scale agent-based modelling in the domain of government oversight;
  • Publish and present scientific articles at international journals and conferences;
  • Collaborate with other PhD candidates in the AI4Overisight lab, researchers at the partners’ data science labs, and the intended users and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

You have a desire to work on applied and societally relevant problems, and bring:

  • an MSc degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data science, Mathematics, Computer science, or a related field;
  • good programming skills in e.g., Python and Java;
  • preferably a solid experience with agent-based modelling and/or simulations;
  • excellent written and oral communication skills in English, Dutch 
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     proficiency or willingness to learn is a plus;
  • ability to work with diverse stakeholders, e.g., industry professionals, academic researchers.

As we are selecting multiple positions for this research lab, we may request to consider your application for another research track. We will contact you if we do so.

Offer

We offer:

  • a position for 4 years;
  • a full-time gross salary ranging from €2,770 to €3,539 in scale P;
  • 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
  • a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

In addition to the employment conditions 

 from the CAO for Dutch Universities, Utrecht University has a number of its own arrangements. These include agreements on professional development 
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, leave arrangements, sports and cultural schemes 
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 and you get discounts on software and other IT products. We also give you the opportunity to expand your terms of employment through the Employment Conditions Selection Model. This is how we encourage you to grow.

For more information, please visit working at Utrecht University 

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About the organisation

A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At Utrecht University 

, the various disciplines collaborate intensively towards major strategic themes 
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. Our focus is on Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences and Pathways to Sustainability. Shaping science, sharing tomorrow 
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At the Faculty of Science 

, there are 6 departments to make a fundamental connection with: Biology, Chemistry, Information and Computing Sciences, Mathematics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Physics. Each of these is made up of distinct institutes that work together to focus on answering some of humanity’s most pressing problems. More fundamental still are the individual research groups – the building blocks of our ambitious scientific projects. Find out more about us on YouTube. 
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The Department of Information and Computing Sciences 

 is nationally and internationally known for its research in computer science and information science. The Department provides and contributes to a number of undergraduate and research Master programmes in the fields of Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. It employs over 200 people in four divisions: Artificial Intelligence & Data Science, Algorithms, Interaction, and Software. The atmosphere is collegial and informal.

Additional information

If you have any questions that you’d like us to answer, please contact Professor Mehdi Dastani 

 at M.M.Dastani@uu.nl 
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Do you have a question about the application procedure? Please send an email to science.recruitment@uu.nl 

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For more information, please visit working at the Faculty of Science 

Apply

As Utrecht University, we want to be a home 

 for everyone. We value staff with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and identities, including cultural, religious or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strive to create a safe and inclusive environment in which everyone can flourish and contribute.

If you are enthusiastic about this position, just apply via the "Apply" button. Please enclose:

  • your letter of motivation, as separate PDF file, named [Your Family Name]_Coverletter.pdf;
  • your curriculum vitae, as separate PDF file, named [Your Family Name]_CV.pdf;
  • a copy of your Master's diploma and transcripts, as PDF file(s), again with your family name as prefix and a suffix indicative of the type of degree/transcript (e.g., Master, Bachelor);
  • a copy of your Master's thesis, as PDF file named [Your Family Name]_Thesis.pdf;
  • if you have accepted or submitted publications, state this in the letter of motivation and list them with bibliographic information (including DOI) in the CV;
  • in the CV, state the names, affiliation, telephone numbers, and email addresses of at least two referees who have agreed to be contacted.

A background check may be part of the selection procedure.

If this specific opportunity isn’t for you, but you know someone else who may be interested, please forward this vacancy to them.

Some connections are fundamental – Be one of them 


#FundamentalConnection

The application deadline is 7 January 2024.

Fully funded PhD position Crossing the divide: sediment exchange between basins and sub-basins

 The Department of Physical Geography at Utrecht University and Royal NIOZ are seeking a PhD candidate for WadSED, a large project on the Wadden Sea tidal basins and the Western Scheldt estuary.

We seek to understand these systems and predict their long-term morphological development under influence of natural dynamics, human interference and sea-level rise. Morphological change involves fluxes of sediment across the tidal inlet and across the tidal divides that separate the tidal basins. At a more detailed level, within basins subdivides are present that separate sub-basins, areas within a basin that are believed to have small exchange of water and sediment during normal tidal conditions. However, during wind events tidal (sub)divides are often flooded and sediment is exchanged. This raises the question to what extent they can be considered isolated systems. The main aim of this PhD project is to quantify the sediment transport across tidal (sub)divides, to understand its sensitivity to the external forcing conditions and to study how these transports can possibly change under influence of sea-level rise and human interventions. Therefore, you will gather new field data, analyse new and existing field data and use models to systematically study sediment transport across tidal (sub)divides. Your outcomes will be used by other PhD candidates, for example in setting up sediment budgets of the tidal basins of the Wadden Sea. You will also learn, in close collaboration, how to communicate your results to expert and non-expert partners in the project that wish to use these results and apply these methods.

You will be based at Utrecht University and NIOZ Yerseke. As WadSED project team we will collectively gain system understanding, have fun doing science, and be relevant for societal partners. We collaborate with a professional attitude towards our work, our colleagues and partners and communicate in an open and constructive way.

At Utrecht University you will become member of a vibrant PhD community and of a department with renown expertise in tidal systems. At NIOZ, you will be likewise welcomed in the Department of Estuarine and Delta Systems (EDS), Yerseke. You will be welcomed in our team of experts in the WadSED project, and you will present your work at project meetings, for the societal partners, and at international scientific conferences. You will gain skills in science communication for interdisciplinary collaboration and for explaining your results to societal partners that intend to use the new knowledge.

This PhD project includes courses for academic writing and presentation, responsible academic conduct and, as part of our project, in-depth training and coaching for transdisciplinary communication and public science communication.

For more information on the project and subprojects see WadSED 

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To support academic and personal development, PhD candidates follow courses and assist in teaching Earth Sciences at Bachelor's and Master's level. Together these activities amount to twenty percent of the contracted time.

Qualifications

We look forward to your application if you have the following qualifications:

  • a Master’s degree (MSc) in physical geography, physical oceanography, earth sciences, coastal or civil engineering, spatial data science, or a related field;
  • affinity with and skills in quantitative data analysis. Familiarity with Python and/or Matlab would be convenient;
  • experience in using full numerical hydrodynamic and sediment transport models, like Delft3D or GETM;
  • an interest to do field work (sea-going campaigns);
  • motivation to work in a transdisciplinary team with geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, engineers, ecologists, and with policymakers in science and in society;
  • a professional attitude towards work, coworkers and partners and communicate in an open and constructive way;
  • good English oral and writing skills: English at C1 level or better (comparable to level 3 of the Lecturer Assessment Grid) qualifies.

Offer

We offer:

  • a position (1.0 FTE) for 1 year, with an extension to a total of four years upon successful assessment and with the specific intent that it results in a doctorate within this period;
  • a full-time gross salary between €2,770 in the first year and €3,539 in the fourth year of employment in scale P of the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities (CAO);
  • 8% holiday bonus and 8.3% end-of-year bonus;
  • a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, and flexible employment conditions based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

In addition to the employment conditions 

 from the CAO for Dutch Universities, Utrecht University has a number of its own arrangements. These include agreements on professional development 
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, leave arrangements, sports and cultural schemes 
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 and you get discounts on software and other IT products. We also give you the opportunity to expand your terms of employment through the Employment Conditions Selection Model. This is how we encourage you to grow. For more information, please visit working at Utrecht University 
external link
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About the organisation

A better future for everyone. This ambition motivates our scientists in executing their leading research and inspiring teaching. At Utrecht University 

, the various disciplines collaborate intensively towards major strategic themes 
external link
. Our focus is on Dynamics of Youth, Institutions for Open Societies, Life Sciences and Pathways to Sustainability. Sharing science, shaping tomorrow 
external link
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Utrecht University's Faculty of Geosciences 

 studies the Earth: from the Earth's core to its surface, including man's spatial and material utilisation of the Earth - always with a focus on sustainability and innovation. With 3,400 students (BSc and MSc) and 720 staff, the Faculty is a strong and challenging organisation. The Faculty of Geosciences is organised in four Departments: Earth Sciences, Human Geography & Spatial Planning, Physical Geography, and Sustainable Development.

The team of the Department of Physical Geography excels in research and education on BSc, MSc and PhD level. We research processes, patterns and dynamics of Earth’s systems from the mountains to the sea, and the interaction in between. This knowledge is essential for the sustainable management of our planet and to guarantee the availability of resources for the next generations.

We are a lively department that hosts an active early career community (PhD candidates, researchers and lecturers). We organise a warm welcome for every new member.

Additional information

For more information about this position, please contact Dr. Maarten van der Vegt 

 (Associate professor), via m.vandervegt@uu.nl 
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 or Dr. Theo Gerkema (Senior scientist), via theo.gerkema@nioz.nl. 
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The interviews in the first round are on 01/02/2024. The second round is mid February 2023. The first round may be online via MS Teams. Preferred starting date is April 2024.

If you have an international (not Dutch) Master diploma you can be requested to send your BA- and MA-diplomas and gradelists.

Apply

As Utrecht University, we want to be a home 

 for everyone. We value staff with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and identities, including cultural, religious or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strive to create a safe and inclusive environment in which everyone can flourish and contribute.

To apply, please send your curriculum vitae, including a letter of motivation via the 'apply' button.

The application deadline is 14 January 2024.

Utrecht University in Netherlands invites application for vacant (30) PhD, Postdoctoral and Academic jobs

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway invites application for vacant (53) PhD, Postdoctoral and Faculty Positions

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