Research Associate - Oxford, United Kingdom - University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Oxford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Research Associate - Geospatial Data Analytics will join our dynamic research group within the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS).

You will provide geospatial expertise to enable us to advance our research, generate new research results and provide worthwhile insights for decision-makers.

Working with domain specialists, you will access innovative data sources, write code and produce analysis and visualisations that assist our research and impact activities.

For example, you will work with rapidly emerging global datasets of infrastructure, including databases of power plants, highways, railways, ports, airports and flight schedules, cable connections, mobile connectivity and large dams, along with multi-sector, multi-region economic datasets.

Alongside this you will make use of global economic and population scenarios and datasets of global production sites and supply chains which you will associate with infrastructure networks.

The post-holder will fulfil a variety of duties as listed below.

These will evolve with our portfolio of projects, so the post-holder will find themselves working with different colleagues at different times and sometimes on multiple projects at the same time.

We anticipate that this will involve:
Researching, accessing and evaluating novel geospatial datasets.

Developing innovative tools to combine and clean multiple geospatial datasets related to economic activity and combine them to create novel datasets useful for infrastructure sustainability and risk analysis.

Contributing to a growing number of international projects which have applied OPSIS' software tools and analytics for sustainable and resilient infrastructure planning.

Development of user interfaces and visualisation to enable use of our models and understanding of the results.

Working with sector specialists in in infrastructure modelling to develop novel, robust analytical methods and results.

Working with other researchers on cleaning and standardising large-scale spatial datasets that require combining information for different sources and across different data formats.

The post-holder will report to Tom Russell, who is Senior Research Software Engineer in the OPSIS group.

They will interact with researchers in other groups in Oxford, other UK universities and internationally, with whom we are collaborating.

There are 2 vacancies one for 12 months and the other for 18 months.