Call for 2 Post-doc Fellowships for Climate Change Research

Call for 2 Post-doc Fellowships for Climate Change Research

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA)

‘Maria de Maetzu’ Unit of Excellence

The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) offers 2 18-month post-doc fellowships for research on climate change within the ICTA-UAB Unit of Excellence ‘María de Maeztu’.

Minimum requirements are a Ph.D. degree obtained before the beginning of the contract, with a maximum of seven years since completion of the PhD (not including maternity leaves or other health-related breaks of career). Only very strong candidates with a very promising research trajectory and excellent capabilities will be considered. The successful applicants will become core members of the ‘Unit of Excellence’ funding programme (which includes research supervisors, 19 PhD students, 5 postdoctoral researchers, and a research manager). They will have a competitive salary for Spanish standards (30.100 Euros gross per annum, candidates for up to three years’ experience; 32.000 Euros per annum, candidates with experience from three to seven years) and a travel budget with possibility for visiting research stays.

The call is open to candidates from all disciplines but special preference will be given to engineering and natural science backgrounds. Candidates will be evaluated based on their academic record and the strength of their research proposal to meet the objectives of this call, which are as follows:

Within the over-arching theme of Maria de Maeztu (please visit website for specifics) the project proposed should address one of the following:

-New technological solutions for transition to a low-carbon economy.

-Complex systems approach (e.g. network theory or other mathematical analysis) to social, technological or ecological dynamical systems, in the context of climate change



-Global modeling and/or data analysis of direct interactions between humans and the ocean ecosystem (e.g. fishing fleets, plastic production)

The applicant must include a specific deliverable addressing one of the proposed topics just described, which should be submitted at the end of the postdoc position. The deliverable could be a scientific article, a report, etc.

The application includes: