Dear Climlist users,
a new vacancy has been open at the private company Amigo Climate.
Please more detailes here:
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https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/191982>
Job Summary
Amigo is currently looking for an experienced Researcher or a Post-Doc,
related to the prestigious call INNOSUP-02-2016: European SME innovation
Associate – pilot. This fellowship would lead to a 1 year (12 months)
post doctorate contract to perform top-notch research in an innovative
Italian SME in Rome working in the Climate Service Sector. The candidate
will contribute to the XCF project
(<
http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/it/xcf>) to develop proposals for
gaining access to climate financing linked to adaptation initiative to
the development of climate-resilient pathways. The candidate will work
on the development of a methodology for the detection of changes in the
frequency of extreme climate events
The main goal of the project is to identify a suitable metric for the
statistical significance of changes in the statistics of extremes in
order to provide the baseline for the design of that innovative
financial products and risk management tools can be constructed.
Job Description
The candidate will join the research team to develop new methodologies
for the detection of climate related changes in the frequency of extreme
events (e.g. drought, floods, heat-waves). The project is financed by
International Organizations and aims of identifying extreme event
distribution variability of an existing Extreme Climate Index.
The scope is to identify appropriate methods for measuring the
statistical significance of observed changes in the frequency of extreme
events on a time scale of a few years to decades, and to provide the
basis for the development of innovative financial products. The
candidate will work on long-term time series of atmospheric data and
climate scenarios. He will develop specific methodologies to identify
changes in the frequency of extreme events using state-of-the-art
science and develop software for automatic calculation and
identification of such changes. The second part of the program is
related to consolidation of the methodology in to a scheme that can be
adopted as the basis for the design of innovative financial products for
the risk management sector.
Eligibility criteria
The following criteria will have to be met by the associate:
i) PhD holder or equivalent,
ii) an expertise in line with the job advertisement;
iii) transnational mobility as defined in the mobility rule of the Marie
Slodowska Curie Actions (MSCA).
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