Environmental Intelligence Lab

Homepage: https://www.ei.deib.polimi.it/

The Environmental Intelligence for Global Change Lab at Politecnico di Milano invites applications for a PhD scolarship (3 years) funded by the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (the Italian version of the European ERC grants) on the research project BERLIN – BEhavioRaL INtelligence for evidence-based adaptation policies, which is expected to start in Fall 2025. More details are available HERE

This position will focus on understanding how stakeholders perceive and respond to changing environmental and climatic conditions, form expectations about the uncertain future, and adapt their behavior under different scenarios. For this purpose, stakeholders’ mapping will be conducted in tandem with semi-structured interviews, group discussions, and collective workshops to identify climate risk narratives and behaviors, followed by a structured questionnaire for evaluating roles, functions, influence, and interactions between stakeholders when addressing climate risk.

Qualifications for these positions include a MSc in social sciences with a robust qualitative research and stakeholders analysis background, including environmental sociology, human geography, political ecology and related fields. Alternatively, candidates experienced in water governance, hydrosocial research and behaviour modelling are also encouraged to apply. Inter- and transdisciplinarity expertise together with strong social computing, system dynamics and mixed methods are required as well as advanced English language skills both in oral and written communication.

The application package should be sent using the form HERE

Interviews will begin on 15 May 2025.