The Doctoral College Geographic Information Science at the University of Salzburg offers 8 PhD positions in the field of GIScience and Geoinformatics in cross-disciplinary research projects. These positions are supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

We are looking for highly skilled and enthusiastic young researchers to work in three interconnected, interdisciplinary, research fields:

Representations and Data Models
…is focused on research into the conceptual modelling of space, spatial features and phenomena, and provides a spatial view of various categories of physical and abstract information objects in order to reveal the potential power of the 'spatial perspective'.

Time and Process
…research leverages the increasing availability of real-time sensor data, the importance of process-oriented modelling, and will address the need for temporal modelling beyond simple discrete time slices.

Spatialization, Contextualisation and Society
…considers user perspectives and utilizes geospatial communication as a hypotheses generator for geospatial research: cognitive processes lead to mental maps which are highly relevant for actions, which in turn modify physical and societal spaces.

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