Host offer for a MSCA-PF candidate

My name is Prof. Dr. Jorge Leandro and I am the head of the Research Institute for Water and Environment (Department of Civil Engineering) at the University of Siegen. As an experienced supervisor for young researchers, I would like to offer a joint proposal as part of the Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships and, if funded, to carry out the project at my chair. I primarily offer the possibility of a joint application within the framework of the European Fellowships, but possibly also as a return host of a Global Fellowship.

The mission of the chair is to contribute to the fulfilment of the Sustainable Development goals and implementation of the Sendai framework as defined by the UNDRR. Geographically we are ideally placed in Siegen-Wittgenstein to tackle these challenges regionally and in Germany. Our international network of partners allows us to extend our outreach globally. We focus mainly on five research areas for which our team has strengthened its expertise over the last 10+ years: 1. Urban flood forecasting and early warning systems 2. Risk-Resilience and cascading effects of critical infrastructure and health 3. Numerical modelling 4. Hydraulic engineering design 5. Hydraulic model experiments The development of an integration platform is the overarching goal of our research that connects our research areas. We are currently interested in expanding our team with a MSCA funded Postdoc who is fascinated by our vision and is keen to make a significant contribution.

If you are interested, please feel free to contact me by e-mail: jorge.leandro@uni-siegen.de For more details check the website of my institute: https://www.bau.uni-siegen.de/fwu/wb/index.html.en?lang=en

The University of Siegen is a young, modern, mid-sized institution of higher education (around 14,400 students) in Germany, located about 80 km east of Cologne. In Siegen, education and research, the core tasks of a German university, are performed by over 247 professors and 1,172 scientific employees who are supported by around 880 administrative staff. The University of Siegen focuses its human resource activities for researchers within the framework of the European Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R). In 2017 the HR Excellence Research label has been received from the European Commission. Our University mainly consists of 4 highly interdisciplinary faculties covering a wide range of scientific areas including humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, technology, healthcare, and wellbeing. We are interested in projects within the framework of our Profile and Areas of Competence: https://www.uni-siegen.de/en/research-profile