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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
The climate needs bright minds. The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. It is one of the world's leading research institutions in its field and offers natural and social scientists from around the world an inspiring environment for excellent interdisciplinary research.
For the project DIPOL (Deep Transformation Scenarios for Informating Climate Policies) as part of the “Economics of Climate Change” program PIK is offering
PhD research position
in the field of Integrated Assessment Modeling, starting as soon as possible
Reference: RD3-Phd position DIPOL-29-2018
The position
is limited until 31 August 2021. Remuneration is in accordance with German public tariff scheme (TV-L Brandenburg), salary group E13. This is a part-time position with a weekly working time of 26 hours per week.
Key responsibilities:
• Review of policies in support of bioenergy deployment and regulations of its use;
• Implementation of bioenergy related policies and regulations into the model REMIND-MAgPIE;
• Review of techno-economics literature on existing and speculative bioenergy technologies including logistics;
• Improved representation of bioenergy value chains into the model REMIND-MAgPIE;
• Performing model runs with the REMIND-MAgPIE model and results analysis;
• Analysis of climate and bioenergy policies regarding economic and environmental effects using the REMIND-MAgPIE model framework.
The successful candidate will analyse the role of technologies and policy instruments in the energy sector with a strong link to the debates in international climate and national energy policy. The main methods used are numerical modeling of energy system and integrated system scenarios, data analyses and literature reviews, which are applied for analyses on various geographical scales (World, Europe, and Germany).
Requirements:
• Hold a master's Degree in Physics, Engineering, Economics, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, System Sciences or a related field;
• training quantitative methods and applied modeling (e.g.
GAMS, R), and good analytical skills;
• interest in energy system modeling as well as bioenergy technologies and policies;
• interest in interdisciplinary research addressing political, technological and socio-economic issues of
climate and energy policies.
We expect:
• strong motivation and good organizational skills;
• structured and goal-oriented thinking;
• ability to perform well-defined research tasks independently;
• team-orientation;
• creativity and opennes to new approaches;
• strong communication skills in English;
• strong writing skills for scientific publications.
We offer:
• the chance to be part of a creative, interdisciplinary team;
• a stimulating working environment in an internationally recognised research institute on Potsdam's beautiful, historic Telegrafenberg campus, a short commuting distance from Berlin;
• a collective pay scheme and associated benefits.
PIK seeks to increase the share of women in scientific positions and therefore explicitly encourage women to apply. In cases of equal qualification and within the given legal scope, women will be given preference. Applications by persons with a migration background, provided they fulfill the conditions for appointment, are expressly encouraged. Applications of disabled persons with equal qualifications will be regarded favourably. PIK is also encouraging applications by parents returning from parental leave within the availability of financial resources.
Please send your full application
as a single PDF document by Email (Reference: RD3-Phd position DIPOL-29-2018.), quoting the position number given above and mentioning where you read about the position by
30.09.2018 at the latest to
bewerbung@pik-potsdam.de).
The size of the file should not exceed 15 MB.
You may alternatively send your application by post to:
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Research Domain Sustainable Solutions
PO Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
Germany
Any application documents you send us can only be returned if you enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
For further information or to discuss the position please contact Mr. Dr. Nico Bauer, Telephone +49 (0)331-288-2540.
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