💼 Full-Time Position

Doctoral candidate in cartography / geovisualization / storytelling

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Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation
📍 zürich, zürich, Switzerland
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Location
zürich, Switzerland
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Posted
June 30, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Doctoral candidate in cartography / geovisualization / storytelling

Posted:

Job reference: 248e35e12584f e209b025b2645

Job description

Your main task and responsibility is to develop a generic and descriptive approach, language, and programming library for describing and publishing digital story maps. The research and implementation should cover different types of story maps, such as “scrolling narrative”, “journey/guided tour”, “time‑based”, “camera/scale‑based”, or any other storytelling modes that emerge during the conceptual phase. In addition, a graphical user interface shall be developed to allow map editors to input multilingual story‑map content into this generic structure, describing the story and its map‑related interactions.

Qualifications

A MSc or MA degree in Geomatics, Geography, Computer Science, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or a similar program is required.

  • Expertise and interest in...