The National Institute of Education invites suitable applications for the position of Research Associate on a 3-month contract at the Humanities & Social Studies Education Department.
Project Title: Revealing the characteristics of the storm that caused the 2021 Malay Peninsula Flood and its outlook in the future
Project Introduction: The 2021-2022 Malaysian Floods brought severe casualties and economic loss, during which 50 people were reported dead or missing with a total of 125,000 people displaced. Understand the evolution of the precipitation process and the storm-hatching environment is the key to improve the short-term forecast and long-term outlook of such extreme event. By employing a state-of-the-art storm tracking algorithm, the proposal aims to 1) reconstruct the trajectory of the storms that brought the torrential rainfall over the peninsula; 2) explore the key meteorological drivers that are most conductive to the triggering, initiation, development, and dissipation processes of the flood-causing storm, and 3) estimate the coincidence probability of such key drivers through their independent occurrence frequency extracted from their respective historical records.
Requirements
- Master’s or doctoral degree in areas related to geography, computing and/or information science
- Proficiency in geographic information systems, remote sensing and statistics
- Proficiency in programming with R, JavaScript and Google Earth Engine
- At least 3 years of working experience in academia
- Experience in academic report writing or paper publication
- Experience with geography fieldwork
- Able to work independently and possess strong follow-through skills
- A team player in a multi-cultural environment
- Strong communication and organization skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and writing skills
Responsibilities
- Manage research project
- Liaise and work with research stakeholders and vendors
- Literature reviews to synthesize prior studies
- Propose, design, and implement appropriate research methodologies
- Remote sensing and field data collection, storage and archival
- Other general quantitative data analysis
- Writing of reports, publications, and presentation materials
- Planning and executing tasks to achieve key deliverables
- Administrative duties as assigned by Principal Investigators
Application
Applicants (external and internal) will apply via Workday. We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Workday Job Req ID: R00018339 (https://ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/NTU-Main-Campus-Singapore/Research-Associate--Humanities---Social-Studies-Education-Department---NIE-_R00018339)
Closing Date
Closing date for advertisements will be set to 14 calendar days from date of posting.
