Postdoctoral researcher in urban verticality and geospatial digital observatory — EPFL
- Location
- Lausanne
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
Role overview
EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of Europe’s most dynamic university campuses and ranks among the world’s top universities.
With more than 6,500 employees, EPFL advances its core missions of education, research and innovation within an international community of over 18,500 people, including more than 14,000 students and 4,000 researchers from over 120 countries.
Within this stimulating and international research environment, the Communauté d’études pour l’aménagement du territoire (CEAT) at EPFL is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher in urban verticality, Earth Observation, environmental modelling and geospatial data science.
- EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of Europe’s most dynamic university campuses and ranks among the world’s top universities.
- With more than 6,500 employees, EPFL advances its core missions of education, research and innovation within an international community of over 18,500 people, including more than 14,000 students and 4,000 researchers from over 120 countries.
- and responsibilities WP1
- Environmental indicators and remote sensing
Main responsibilities
- and responsibilities WP1
- Environmental indicators and remote sensing
- Develop and harmonise Earth Observation workflows using Sentinel-1/2, Landsat, MODIS, GHSL, Open Buildings 2.5D, OpenStreetMap, Copernicus and other available datasets to characterise urban morphology, verticalisation and land-surface change, including the reconstruction of temporal dynamics through multi-temporal imagery and change-detection approaches.
- Derive and analyse urban and environmental indicators related to verticalisation, including building height and density, built volume, vegetation and NDVI, imperviousness, albedo, Land Surface Temperature, climatic com
Additional details
- We are looking for a full time postdoctoral researcher at EPFL Lausanne. Contract duration: 48 months
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL, CEAT), with fieldwork assignments in Kigali, Dakar and Luanda Start date : 02/2027
- Scientific supervisor: Prof.
- The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to measuring urban verticality and its environmental impacts (WP1), while providing scientific coordination for the geospatial, modelling and digital observatory components of the project (WP4). Tasks and responsibilities
Notes and original content
- We are looking for a full time postdoctoral researcher at EPFL Lausanne.
- Information
- Contract duration: 48 months
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland (EPFL, CEAT), with fieldwork assignments in Kigali, Dakar and Luanda
- Activity rate: 100 %
- Start date : 02/2027
- Jérôme Chenal
- Project context
- The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to measuring urban verticality and its environmental impacts (WP1), while providing scientific coordination for the geospatial, modelling and digital observatory components of the project (WP4).
- Research Focus
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