Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demography
iacchos | Louvain-la-Neuve
Main location: Louvain-la-Neuve
Full-time contract (100%) for a fixed term of 24 months
Start date: 1 March 2026
Application deadline: 15 February 2026, 12:00 noon (Europe/Brussels)
About the project
The project aims to evaluate cause-specific mortality attributable to temperature under different future climate and population scenarios at high spatial and temporal resolution. TEMPUR is a collaborative initiative involving UCLouvain, Ghent University, the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, Sciensano, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The postdoctoral researcher will be based at UCLouvain and will contribute to the design of population projections aligned with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) for Belgium. This will involve surveying experts and stakeholders to inform demographic assumptions and translating these into population projections using both the cohort-component method and microsimulation techniques.