PhD Position in AI-Supported Resilience Assessment of Climate-Neutral Transport Infrastructure

The Chair of Infrastructure Management, led by Professor Dr. Bryan T. Adey within the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, has an opening for a PhD student in transport infrastructure resilience. The position is part of the EU Horizon project SHIFTIN, which aims to accelerate the transition towards climate-neutral, resilient, and biodiversity-friendly transport infrastructure by 2050.

The doctoral research will focus on developing AI-supported stress-testing and surrogate-modelling methodologies to assess the resilience of interdependent transport infrastructure systems under climate-related and multi-hazard scenarios. The work will support rapid, evidence-based evaluation of design, retrofit, maintenance, and recovery strategies at asset, corridor, and network scales.