项目介绍

2026年10月15日

Job description

• Analyse how missing complex mountain processes in global precipitation products and hydrological models affect water availability estimates.
• Quantify the importance of mountainwater for agriculture and ecosystems globally, by analyzing how meltwater flows interact with crop growing seasons and environmental flow requirements in basins with large irrigation demand and high meltwater flows.
• Run the hydrology-crop model in combination with mountain streamflow (from high resolution mountain hydrology models) for selected basins to analyse mountain water contributions to downstream river flow, agricultural water use, and sustaining ecosystems for hotspot areas.
• Using a global mountain reanalysis dataset to evaluate for all mountain areas globally their contribution to downstream river flows, agriculture and ecosystems.

Requirements

• enthusiasm for the research topic;
• a MSc degree in the field of Hydrology, Crop Science, Earth System Science, Environmental Science, Climate Science, or a related field;
• a MSc thesis related to quantitative assessment of water- and/or food security;
• demonstrated experience in working with large datasets and large-scale numerical modelling in context of global change;
• experience with scripting and programming, eg in R, Python or Matlab and the willingness to learn a new programming language (C);
• creativity in communication and visualisation of model results in maps and figures;
• some experience with numerical modelling on High Performance Computing Platforms is a pre;
• willingness to work in multidisciplinary and internationally teams;
• a high level of English, both oral and written.

Conditions of employment

Fixed-term contract: 18 months.

• Partially paid parental leave;
• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

Employer

Wageningen University & Research

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