Research opportunities
These are research project proposals that have already received approval and funding and for which applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to undertake the research as a basis for preparing and submitting a PhD thesis.
Although there are relatively few such opportunities at any one time, candidates interested to study for a PhD may also apply for graduate registration at ITC to undertake research which he/she outlines and for which he/she separately seeks funding from a third party (e.g., scholarship provider, employment-related sponsorship, etc.).
Modelling of the African Lithosphere Combining GOCE and Seismology
This four-year PhD position is offered within the department of Earth Systems Analysis, Faculty ITC at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, in collaboration with Utrecht University, Pennsylvania State University (USA) and is conducted within the framework of the AfricaArray project.
The research is supported under NWO grant GO-AO/31 and part of the European Space Agency PI project GOCE4306.
Applications should arrive no later than 29 February 2012.
For more information and application.
Sensors, Empowerment, Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA)
The research programme "Sensors, Empowerment, Accountability in Tanzania (SEMA)" is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research under the WOTRO-Global Science for Development Programme. In the framework of this programme 3 PhD candidates, 1 Postdoctoral Scientist and 1 software developer will be recruited.
The research focuses on how ordinary citizens in Tanzania can directly exact accountability from water and public health providers with the human sensor web. The programme entails collaboration with stakeholders from government, community based organisations, and non-governmental organisations especially during the “deploy and learn” cycles of the SEMA prototype software. Detailed information on the research programme can be found in the open-access article “Sensors, Empowerment, Accountability in Tanzania: A Digital Earth view from East Africa”.
The research programme is jointly implemented by the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and the University Twente (The Netherlands). The Principal Investigators (PIs) are Dr. Juma Hemed Lungo, College of Information and Communication Technologies of University of Dar es Salaam (TZ) and Prof. Dr. Yola Georgiadou, Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University Twente (NL).
For this research programme we are recruiting:
- 3 PhD candidates,
- 1 Software Developer will be advertised in due course,
- 1 Postdoctoral Scientist.