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Environmental data scientist (master or post-doc level): water quality data mining
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The position is a 1 year data scientist position (1 October 2020 - 30 September 2021) at the Earth and Life Institute of the UCLouvain (https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/eli) within the SPGE funded program EGERIEC (Evaluation and Management of the Water Resource Risks of the Walloon Catchments based on modern data mining techniques and solutions oriented towards hydro-ecology and green infrastructure).
The overall objective of the EGERIEC program is to develop, test and promote innovative methodological approaches to characterize, predict and manage the pollution risks of water production plants (surface and groundwater) in Wallonia. The first specific objective of the 1 year position is to unravel the cause-effect relationships between possible pressures and water resources quality as described in a pressure-quality data base and this for 5 production plants in Wallonia. The second specific objective is to develop data based and site specific water quality models using advanced regression methods ("Machine learning").
Submission Deadline : 31 August 2020.
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UCLouvain/UNamur: 2 PhD positions
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In the context of an ARC project entitled “IMAL – Imperfect Data: From Mathematical fondations to Applications in Life sciences”.
The two open positions are linked to a large joint project between UCLouvain and UNamur with 6 promotors (Prof. C. Legrand, Prof G. Van Bever, Prof. A. El Ghouch, Prof. P. Lambert, Prof. E. Pircalabelu, Prof. I. Van Keilegom) and cover a wide range of subjects from more applied to more methodological research.
Submission Deadline : June 22, 2020
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UCLouvain: PhD positions
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The Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at the Université catholique de Louvain has multiple vacancies for PhD positions and post doctoral Research positions. research topics will focus on the application of operations research in power system operations and electricity market analysis, with a specific focus on sustainable growth through demand response and renewable energy integration. Candidates will specifically contribute to the execution of the research agenda of the ICEBERG ERC Starting Grant.
PHD positions and the POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH positions
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UCLouvain/KU Leuven: PhD student in industrial and environmental economics
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The research departmentof Economics and Corporate Sustainability (KU Leuven campus Brussels, CEDON) and the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (Université Catholique deLouvain, CORE) are looking for a motivated graduate student to carry outdoctoral studies in the field of industrial and environmental economics andcircular economy, starting preferably in October 2020.
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Doctoral researcher in the field of Development Economics / Political Economy
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The doctoral project aims to study policies to mitigate violent conflict using state-of-the-art geospatial and econometric techniques.
The candidate will write a doctoral thesis under the supervision of Joseph Gomes and co-supervision of Alex Armand (Nova Lisbon).
Interested applicants should email (with “PhD application: October 2020” in the subject line) a letter of motivation (max 2 pages), CV and academic transcripts (including exam results from Bachelors and Masters level) to joseph.gomes@uclouvain.be
Submission deadline: June 30, 2020