Doctoral student: in risk communication and AI — ETH Zürich
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- fixed-term
- Posted
- 46 days ago
Role overview
Doctoral student: in risk communication and AI 100%, Zurich, temporary Printed Printing How can people make informed decisions in the event of an incident?
How do you inform the population, authorities and emergency agencies about the likelihood of further shocks after an earthquake?
Become part of the risk communication research group at the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) at ETH Zurich and help us answer these questions.
- Doctoral student: in risk communication and AI 100%, Zurich, temporary Printed Printing How can people make informed decisions in the event of an incident?
- How do you inform the population, authorities and emergency agencies about the likelihood of further shocks after an earthquake?
Application process
- This gives you the opportunity to combine theory and practice and to incorporate your research directly into real applications.
- Project background After each major earthquake, the probability of a similarly large or even a larger quake increases in the short term.
- Although the probability increases significantly, the absolute values often remain small.
- This makes comprehensible and addressable communication challenging.
- In the earthquake probability project, you will investigate how to comprehend such information in a comprehensible, helpful and appealing way for various applications.
- In addition, you are involved in the European project EARTH-AID, where we develop agent-based AI to support the assessment of geological hazards.
- You investigate how different users use and assess them. Job description
- You systematically investigate how different contents and formats influence the perception, comprehensibility, acceptance and willingness of users:
Additional details
- You investigate how different users use and assess them.
- The job is on the 1st. November 2026 or by arrangement Profile
Notes and original content
- Job description
- The job is on the 1st.
- November 2026 or by arrangement Profile
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