Research Associate in Transportation (CIRCLE)

Overview

The CIRCLE (Community and Infrastructure Resilience to Climate-geological Long-term Effects) project at the University of Bristol is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to contribute to Task 2. The role focuses on quantitative impact assessments of communities and interdependent infrastructure networks under multi-hazard stress-testing scenarios, including tsunamis, cascading failures, and coastal hazards. The successful candidate will lead the development and implementation of agent-based models to simulate evacuation behaviours through transportation networks under tsunami scenarios and integrate these models into broader multi-hazard resilience stress tests.

Responsibilities

• Design and calibrate evacuation models for coastal communities (Canada and Indonesia).
• Incorporate geospatial, demographic, and hazard data to simulate realistic human behavior and infrastructure response under stress.
• Model interdependencies among infrastructure systems (e.g., roads, power, communications, emergency services) that influence evacuation outcomes and community resilience.
• Conduct scenario-based analyses under varying hazard intensities and infrastructure disruptions.
• Produce performance and resilience metrics (e.g., evacuation delays, network failures, access to essential services).
• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary research team and engage with community stakeholders to ensure models reflect local conditions and priorities.

Qualifications

Additional information

For informal queries please contact : Raffaele de Risi - raffaele.derisi@bristol.ac.uk

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Contract and role details

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