Vacancies
Job opportunities:
- Every year, the University of Ferrara offers the opportunity to join the PhD programme in Earth and Marine Sciences (EMAS) in collaboration with the University of Cadiz on the following topics:
Coastal dynamics and management. This line covers those geological and oceanographical aspects most directly applied to the coastal processes and their consequences to the human activity. It includes fields such as the recent evolution and present trends of the coastline, coastal erosion processes and natural hazards on the coast, quantification and modelling of coastal erosion, transport and sedimentation processes, due to wave and wind action, environmental mapping of littoral zones, coastal defense works, coastal pollution modelling, and in general, coastal planning and risk and impact assessment of a wide range of human activities in the coastal zone, such as tourism, offshore drilling, offshore aquaculture, etc. An outstanding aspect of this line is that related to the analysis of socio-political strategies for a correct coastal management, by combining data from littoral dynamics with the activities and aims of the social agents responsible for the use of coastal resources. A further aspect is the reconstruction of past historical storminess and the prediction of future scenarios induced by climate change. Coastal dynamics also plays a key role for the conservation and management of the underwater cultural heritage.
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- SEARCH FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR A JOINT POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA (Italy) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CADIZ (Spain)
Under a joint collaboration between the COSTUF (http://fst.unife.it/it/ricerca/aree-di-ricerca-1/costuf) Research Group of the University of Ferrara (Prof. Paolo Ciavola), and the University of Cadiz (Dr Tomas Montblanc), we are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on a new project financed by the European Union under the H2020 Research Framework. The ECFAS Project (a proof-of-concept for the implementation of a European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System), coordinated by Dr Clara Armaroli of the IUSS-Pavia, will contribute to the evolution of the EU Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service. The project is due to start on 1 January 2021 and will run for two years. It involves 9 partners from 5 countries and is financed with a budget of 1.5 million euros under the H2020 LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 call (Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services).
