In today’s intricate socio-technological world, assessing the risk of metropolitan areas (e.g., Milan) to natural hazards induced by climate change is an important and challenging problem.In this context, the scope of this research will promote a paradigm shift in the design and management of urban solutions that offer services to society: shitfting to sustainability analysis based on the assessment of the associated systemic and integrated risk. The research should address a cost benefit analysis based on the parameterization of the total costs of implementing the solutions (also in relation to the actions of the Air and Climate Plan of the Milan Municipality), calculate the risk for different scenarios, estimate the benefit obtained from the reduction of the risk and seeking the solution that offers the minimum cost/benefit ratio and the most suited to social expectations. The research will progress on the activities at IUSS on holistic approach (Arosio et al., 2020, doi:10.5194/nhess-20-521- 2020) that allows to analyze systemic risk based on a graph, in particular to assess properties, to propagate the damage and account for the resilience characteristics. The candidate needs:- to critically review the recent literature, tools and database- to develop a risk-based approach for a sustainable design and management of hard and soft urban solutions- to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary context of IUSS research team and the Urban Resilience Dept. of Milan municipality

The ideal candidate will have experience with most of these topics: quantitative risk assessment, statistical analysis and large dataset. The candidate should be passionate on research topics, hardworking, self-motivated, have an open-mindedness to look for new ideas of doing things and creativity in analytical thinking to extract meaning from sets of data. The candidate should desire to join a inter-disciplinary research team, open to learn new topics from other sectors and effectively communicate to colleagues with different background. Competence on programming languages is preferable. Fluency in Italian is preferable, due to the tight collaboration with the Municipality of Milan.

IUSS mission is to provide advanced education to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as fundamental and applied research. At IUSS, PhD candidates will find an open multidisciplinary environment offering real opportunities for developing academic and professional tools and he/she will join the research centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement (CARISMA). The team is composed by STEM and Social scientists working in the prism of CC on data analysis/modelling of Earth and economic system processes; impact/risk assessment of extreme events.For this scholarship a period of internship is planned at theUrban Resilience Dept. of Milan municipality.