Are you excited to use data and simulation models to design healthier, more active cities? Join the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences!

Are you excited to use data and simulation models to design healthier, more active cities? Join the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) as a PhD candidate “Designing for movement: modelling physical activity in urban environments using Agent-Based simulation”! You will explore how urban environments shape physical activity and health.

Your job

In collaboration with the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), you will develop agent-based models (ABM) to simulate how people move, make activity choices, and interact with their environment; ultimately helping to design equitable, active, and healthy urban spaces. Besides that, you will:

• extend an existing spatial transport ABM by incorporating a physical activity module to study how urban design, environmental stressors ...