PhD Researcher Positions in Quantitative Past Urban Studies (f/m/d)

PhD Researcher Positions in Quantitative Past Urban Studies (f/m/d) The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany is pleased to announce vacancies for PhD Researcher positions in the area of quantitative, historical and archaeological urban research. Particular focus in the position will be on analyzing urban patterns and processes across large past datasets within the URBank ( https://urbank.earth ) initiative.

The full-time position will be for a period of 3 years, with the possibility of a 1-year extension, and based in Jena, Germany. The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization studies the long-term interaction between cities (and their non-urban counterparts), land use, and the Earth system.

Through state-of-the-art fieldwork, computation analysis, and laboratory research, as well as data compilation, it connects observations from the deep past to present planning and future predictions and explore urbanisation as a non-linear, dynamic process, answering questions such as: Is human urbanisation unique or part of general human evolutionary processes of social aggregation and connectivity? Are the