PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Quantifying compounding and cascading physical climate risk to UK…

Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

Institution: University of Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Earth, environment and agriculture
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 The studentship will provide funding of fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.
Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

About this position

Climate change is intensifying hazards, such as flooding, heat, drought, storms, that threaten the resilience of UK infrastructure. Most existing risk assessments treat these hazards in isolation and for single asset classes, missing two critical realities: hazards compound (e.g. heat and drought together) and cascade across interdependent systems (e.g. flooding disrupts power, which disrupts water treatment and transport). This project will develop a UK infrastructure risk assessment that starts with rigorous hazard damage modelling for a single infrastructure sector, then extends this to qua

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTL051/phd-studentship-quantifying-compounding-and-cascading-physical-climate-risk-to-uk-infrastructure

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