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Investigate prehistoric landscape connectivity and human movement.
- Part of a project investigating contacts and interactions between hominins in Late Pleistocene Europe.
- Implement a movement modelling framework to reconstruct geography-driven movement architecture.
- Simulate autonomous agents using a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster.
- Identify movement corridors, bottlenecks, and barriers that emerge solely from landscape structure.
- Compare predicted movement pathways with the archaeological record.
What you do
- Adapt the agent-based movement model to reconstruct prehistoric landscape connectivity.
- Build and process palaeoenvironmental and geospatial datasets for multiple Middle and Late Pleistocene time slices using GIS and R.
- Run computationally intensive agent-based simulations on an HPC cluster and analyse predicted movement corridors and connectivity patterns.
- Compare predicted movement corridors and connectivity networks with archaeological datasets.
- Produce reproducible datasets and code, and contribute to one scientific publication and one scientific presentation.
- Engage with the Faculty community through discussion meetings, journal clubs, and other events.
What they ask
- PhD degree completed by the time of appointment in Archaeology, Geography, Geosciences, Ecology, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Experience with GIS, spatial analysis, and processing large raster and vector geospatial datasets.
- Programming experience in R (preferred), or Python or another language suitable for spatial analysis and simulation.
- Experience with agent-based modelling or spatial simulation is an advantage.
- Ability to work independently, manage time effectively, and deliver project milestones within a short-term appointment.
- Excellent written and spoken English and strong communication skills.
Practical
- The position can be carried out remotely.
- The postdoctoral researcher will work independently while maintaining regular contact with the project team through scheduled online meetings.
- Progress will be monitored through agreed milestones and deliverables.
- Expected deliverables:
- Reproducible European palaeogeographic datasets for multiple Pleistocene time slices.
- Connectivity maps identifying emergent movement corridors, bottlenecks and barriers.
- Comparison of predicted corridors with archaeological site distributions.
- Reproducible R code and documentation.
- Draft manuscript suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
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