Researcher - Sea-City Interface Research Project (C3183)

ETH Zurich is one of the leading universities of the world with a strong focus on science and engineering. In 2010 it established the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) in collaboration with the National Research Foundation (NRF) to do interdisciplinary research on pressing problems.

The centre currently runs several research programmes with the Future Cities Laboratory Global (FCL) as one of the programmes. It is home to a community of over 100 PhD, postdoctoral and Professorial researchers working on diverse themes related to sustainable cities and resilient infrastructure systems. In the course of their work, researchers actively collaborate with universities, research institutes, industry, and government agencies with the aim of offering practical solutions.

The Sea-City Interface research project forms part of the FCL Global research programme. The project focuses on mitigating climate impacts at the sea-city fringes in rapidly urbanising cities in tropical Asia. Tropical coastal megacities are particularly vulnerable to extreme climate like heavy rainfall, hot weather, storm surges and rising seas, and at the same time they are also growing in size and population. In the future, as these climatic extremes are expected to increase worldwide due to climate change, such cities need new design ideas and science-informed adaptation plans, including the exploration of simple solutions.

The Sea-City Interface project specifically studies measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change, reduce climate change and urban-heat-island effects, and alleviate flooding, through improved approaches to urban design and planning, water-sensitive design, soil engineering, and environmental science. It also considers the interplay with an ageing population, and emerging economic developments, to promote current and future liveability.

You will be leading efforts on a generative approach to urban design and planning using AI support. Hereto, you will collaborate with and provide guidance to one other Researcher. You will also co-tutor architecture students in exploring and applying generative AI.

The candidate should have:

• Master's degree in architecture or a strongly related field from a reputable university.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant working experience.
• Expertise in the applicationof AI techniques to generative architecture is required.
• Competence in the application of Graph Neural Networks would be desirable
• Teaching experience would be desirable.

The Singapore-ETH-Centre is an equal opportunity and family-friendly employer. All candidates will be evaluated on their merits and qualifications, without regards to gender, race, age or religion.