1 Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Growth and Evolution of City Infrastructure in Singapore | The Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC)

The Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) was established in Singapore in 2010 as a joint initiative between ETH Zurich and Singapore’s National Research Foundation (NRF), as part of the NRF’s CREATE campus. The SEC is an institution that frames a number of research programmes, the first of which is the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) , followed by the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) in 2011. The FRS addresses the challenges with critical infrastructure systems that provide essential services to modern societies, which is of particular importance to innovation-driven economies like Singapore and Switzerland. For the division of social and behavioural factors in decision-making, the FRS is announcing the following job opening:

Postdoctoral Fellow Position in Growth and Evolution of City Infrastructure

We are facing a rapid, world-wide urbanization, in particular in megacities. Urban growth is going along with an increase with infrastructure density, resulting in complex, interwoven systems that are ulnerable to disruptions. The problem is that our understanding how infrastructure systems grow is quite limited. The scaling law approach has been promising in improving our insights, and it will be the guiding idea for studying (1) the growth mechanism and dynamics of urban infrastructure systems with historical data, and (2) exploring the explanatory power of the scaling law approach. The project aims to investigate the cases of Zurich, Singapore and other Ascian cities for several infrastucture systems, and to develop scaling-law based models to model the development of infrastructure systems in time. The work place is at Singapore-ETH Centre, CREATE Tower in Singapore.

The successful candidate has a PhD degree, preferably in Geography, GIS or Geographical Economics, excellent skills in GIS and mathematical statistics and is willingness to work in a large team.