PhD student wildfire risk assessment and fire propagation

Background
The (CMK) is a multidisciplinary research institute bringing together 227 researchers from 38 nationalities across six research groups. CMK focuses on fundamental and applied environmental research, as well as industrial collaboration, to address complex societal challenges that require interdisciplinary approaches. Research at CMK spans multiple domains, including understanding environmental influences on organisms, developing and assessing sustainable technologies to mitigate environmental impacts, and monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services under stress conditions such as climate change.

Job content
Wildfires have significant socio-economic and ecological impacts, posing risks to human lives, buildings, ecosystem services and biodiversity values. In Europe, areas with increased danger are being pushed north by climate change. Even though many industrialized countries have implemented fire management strategies, formal risk assess...