PhD research
ITC has a growing number of PhD researchers. The standard period for PhD research is three years, with a so-called qualifier period of maximum 6 months prior to that, during which the final research proposal is written, which has to be approved by the promotor and co-promotor.
Research is carried out within the ITC research themes. PhD research can be carried in several ways, although the two most popular version is the so-called sandwich PhD, in which the PhD research is carried out in collaboration with an organization in the researchers own country. Research is financed through fellowships from funding organisations, or on a cost-sharing basis. For more information on application procedures, please visit the Graduate (PhD) programme pages.
Currently, the following PhD researchers are enrolled in research projects under the School for Disaster Geo-Information Management:
- Carolina Sigaran (Costa Rica) Empirical relations from 2-D and 3-D topographic and geotechnical effects on soil response
- Ajay Kumar Katuri (India) Spatial Decision Support systems for urban vulnerability reduction
- Sekhar Lukose Kuriakose (India) Dynamic Modeling of Debris Flows in the Western Ghats with upscaling to a Regional Hazard Zonation using GIS and Remote Sensing
- Sabail Ghosh (India), Landslide hazard and risk mapping in Darjeeling Himalaya, India
- Pankaj Jaiswal (India), Use of dynamic modelling in GIS for landslide initiation and run out modelling in the Nilgizi area, Tamil Nadu, India
- Tapas Ranjan Martha (India), Landslide hazard and risk modelling and integration of rain fall data to the model in Garhwal Himalayas, India
- Sumbal Bahar Saba (Pakistan), Denudation, landsliding and seismic movement in the highly active tectonic areas of Balakot and Muzaffarabad
- Muhammad Shafique (Pakistan), Damage assessment of kashmir eartquake using GIS/remote sensing technologies
- Mila Ivanova Luleva (Bulgaria), Hyperspectral multi-temporal remote sensing for soil erosion modelling and prediction
- Ruamporn Moonun (Thailand), Fuzzy and neural network modelling for digital predictive soil mapping
- Thi Hai Nguyen (Vietnam), Geohazard and risk assessment for a Vietnamese mountainous municipality by combining participatory GIS and modelling - A case study in Yen Bai town, Vietnam
- Byron Quan (Guatemala), Quantitative risk assessment of hydro-geomorphological processess
- Shruthi B.V. Chalapathi (India), Integrating objects from high resolution image analysis and spatially dynamic erosion modelling