As reported on ITU’s frontpage, Vedran Sekara has just won an Independent Research Fund Denmark grant (a “DFF 1”) of DKK 3.1 million (~EUR 415,000) for a project to understand how climate change affects our collective behaviour – especially our movement patterns. Congratulations Vedran for this “big catch”! 🥳

The project ClimateAdapt will work with large volumes of anonymised GPS data from countries like the US and countries in Europe. These datasets reveal how millions of people move through their daily lives – working, shopping, doing social activities. By matching these movement patterns with local climate events such as heatwaves, cloudbursts, and changing humidity levels, Vedran and his team aim to map out how behaviour changes. Read more in the ITU news.

Vedran’s ClimateAdapt project will soon open calls for PhDs/Postdocs.. stay tuned!