Responsibilities
Essential Duties: The primary duties entail: 1) the development of analytical and computational models of coupled infrastructure systems; 2) working with other team members to integrate information from empirical cases from physical infrastructure networks and governance protocols into the modelling project; and 3) implementing a stylized model of coupled infrastructure systems to analyse resilience for various types of scenarios for a country.
Skills
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: At the time of appointment, the successful candidate must have earned doctorate in an interdisciplinary human-environment program, or in a field in the natural sciences, computer science, engineering or statistics that focuses on systems analysis at the time of appointment. He/she must demonstrate experience in analytical and computational modelling, experimental design, network analysis, text analysis and/or systems analysis.
Programming skills in the following systems are essential:
- Statistical Programming: R
- Scripting Languages: Python (or other languages, PHP, Javascript, Perl)
- Database Management: MySQL
- Geographical package: QGIS, GRASS GIS
Skills or experience in using the following systems would be an advantage:
- Crowd-computing (e.g. AWS)
- Big-data analysis
- Natural language processing
- Compiled language programming (e.g. Java, C++, C#)