The Chair of Infrastructure Management at the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering, offers a PhD position in transport infrastructure resilience as part of the EU Horizon project SHIFTIN. The project 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.
Tasks
- Developing AI-supported surrogate models for infrastructure stress testing
- Linking surrogate models with agent-based and network-based simulations
- Assessing infrastructure interdependencies and recovery constraints
- Supporting resilience assessment across asset, corridor, and network scales
- Contributing to cost-benefit and decision-support analysis
- Addressing uncertainty, reliability, and explainability
- Integrating results with digital-twin and monitoring data
- Collaborating with the European project consortium
Requirements
- A Master’s degree in civil engineering, transport engineering, infrastructure systems, environmental engineering, computational engineering, data science, or a closely related field
- Strong quantitative and programming skills, preferably in Python, with experience in machine learning, statistical modelling, simulation, optimisation, data analysis, or geospatial/network analysis
- Excellent written and spoken English skills
- Knowledge of German or another European language is an asset but not required
Benefits
- Become part of ETH Zurich, which supports professional development and contributes to positive change in society
- Public transport season tickets and car sharing
- A wide range of sports offered by the ASVZ
- Childcare and attractive pension benefits
- Inclusive culture that promotes equality of opportunity and values diversity
- Commitment to sustainability and working towards a climate-neutral future
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Das Team
The position is within the Chair of Infrastructure Management, led by Professor Dr. Bryan T. Adey, and involves collaboration with academic, industry, infrastructure, and public-sector partners across Europe as part of the SHIFTIN project consortium.