You can find more about this job position at the following link: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/738131
Deadline: May 15, 17:00 EEST (Cyprus Time)
The KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (www.kios.ucy.ac.cy) at the University of Cyprus (https://www.ucy.ac.cy) announces two research positions, for full-time employment. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to conduct research with Prof. Marios Polycarpou toward the goals of the flagship ERC Synergy Grant entitled Water-Futures: Designing the Next Generation of Urban Drinking Water Systems (https://waterfutures.eu).
The required skills and expertise for the announced positions include one or more of the following areas:
- Fault Diagnosis
- Systems and Control Theory
- Optimization
- Machine Learning
- Water Distribution System Analysis/Hydroinformatics
ERC Synergy Grant Water-Futures
The world population living in urban areas is expected to increase to 70% of 9.7 billion by 2050. Historically, as cities grew, new water infrastructures followed as needed. However, these developments had less to do with real planning than with reacting to crisis situations and urgent needs, due to the inability of urban water planners to consider long-term, deeply uncertain and ambiguous factors affecting urban development and water demand. These, coupled with increasingly uncertain climate conditions, indicate the need for a more holistic and intelligent decision-making framework for managing water infrastructures in the cities of the future.
This project aims to develop a new theoretical framework for the allocation and development decisions on drinking water infrastructure systems, so that they are socially equitable, economically efficient and environmentally resilient, as advocated by the UN Agenda 2030, Sustainable Development Goals. The framework will integrate real-time monitoring and control with long-term robustness and flexibility-based pathway methods, and incorporate economic, social, ethical and environmental considerations for sustainable transitioning of urban water systems under deep uncertainty with multiple possible futures.
The Water-Futures team will build on synergies from the four research groups, transcending methodologies from water science (Prof. Dragan Savic, KWR/Exeter), systems and control theory (Prof. Marios Polycarpou, KIOS CoE/UCY), economics and decision science (Prof. Phoebe Koundouri, AUEB), and machine learning (Prof. Barbara Hammer, BU), into an integrated decision and control framework.
Our research team at the University of Cyprus focuses on the theory and application of monitoring and control in urban water distribution systems while considering their evolution in time, unpredictable events such as contamination, device faults, and failures, as well as the evolution of risk in the system and the presence of humans-in-the-loop.
