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.
If you enjoy working in a very collaborative, supportive and
international team, you love writing and improving code, you like
analytical thinking and constructive problem-solving, you want to
contribute to tackling one of the big challenges of our time and
co-develop with us the REMIND model, one
of the world’s leading integrated energy-economy-climate
modelling systems – then you may want to apply to the position in
our team.
For the energy system research group of PIK`s Research Department
3 on “Transformation Pathways” PIK is offering a
Researcher position: Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment
(m/f/d)
(Position number: 29-2022-Researcher position LCA)
in the field of Energy Systems Analysis,
starting as soon as possible.
Candidates wishing to pursue a PhD in these areas with a PIK
supervisor as well as those already at postdoc level are
encouraged to apply.
The position is funded until 31.07.2024. PhD
positions will initially be funded for three years. Remuneration
is in accordance with the German public tariff
scheme (TV-L Brandenburg), salary group E 13
(100 % for a postdoctoral and
75 % for a doctoral researcher). This is a
full-time position with a weekly working time of 40 hours per
week. Appointment is conditional on approval by the funding
agency. The position can be filled on a part-time basis.
Key responsibilities:
The focus of this position is on integrating the REMIND model
with life-cycle inventories to perform life-cycle analyses of
future technologies and products, using the PREMISE tool. With
the integrated system it can be assessed how environmental
impacts of individual technologies deployed in the future depend
on overall energy and land transformation strategies. For
instance, the environmental impact from the production and
operation of battery-electric vehicles in 2030 will depend on the
progress in the decarbonization of the overall economy. In
addition to greenhouse gas emissions, also other environmental
impacts such as air pollution, water use and biodiversity loss
are considered. The methods will be developed and applied both to
assess individual technologies and to explore the environmental
performance of transformation strategies on the system level. A
central goal is to derive holistic sustainable approaches to
achieving climate neutrality.
- Contributions to the development of the integrated assessment
modeling framework REMIND, with a special focus on integration
with life-cylce assessment methodologies
- Model-based analysis of various technology options and their
environmental impacts, as well as environmentally sustainable
energy decarbonization strategies
- Participation in project meetings
- Presentation of results at international conferences
- Publication of results in scientific journals
Requirements:
- Master's Degree or PhD in Physics, Engineering, Economics,
Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, System Sciences or a related
field
- Training in formal, quantitative methods, excellent
analytical skills
- Experience in research software engineering, programming
experience (e.g. Python, R, GAMS)
- Active interest in energy and environmental systems
analysis
- Willingness to travel for work and participate in further
training
- Strong motivation and good organizational skills
- Team-orientation and strong communication skills in English.
The working language at PIK is English
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
- Flexitime and mobile working (up to 40 % of your hours)
- A collective pay scheme and associated benefits as well as a
subsidized travel card
- High-impact research: PIK researchers publish in renowned
international journals, including Nature, Science, or PNAS
- Participation in solution-oriented research with immediate
policy relevance and impact on international assessments such as
IPCC reports
- Opportunities for cooperation with PIK’s national and
international network of leading climate & energy research
institutes and think tanks
- Insights and experience in strategic research management and
stakeholder consultation and advice
- A structured PhD programme with supervision agreements, a
supervision team, reporting obligations, a career development
plan, a mediator team and an interdisciplinary education
programme
- Career development opportunities for PostDocs, e.g. via
Humboldt Graduate School
PIK values equality and diversity. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment regardless of ethnic and
social origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender
identity, national origin, disability, care responsibilities, or
age. PIK seeks to increase the share of women in scientific
positions and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. In
cases of equal qualification and within the given legal scope,
women will be given preference. PIK also encourages applications
by parents returning from parental leave.
Please apply by 10.07.2022 directly using
our application form.
If you hold an international higher education qualification,
please also submit the Statement of Comparability from the
Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) with your application.
In the case that you do not yet have a ZAB Statement of
Comparability for your qualification, please be aware that you
will need to request this if your application is successful. You
can find further information on this website: https://www.kmk.org/zab/central-office-for-foreign-education.html
Application documents should comprise a letter of motivation,
including research interests, a CV with the contact details of
two referees, and a sample of your work (e.g., term paper, thesis
or journal publication, exam records, GitHub profile, online
publication profile or similar. For further information or to
discuss the position please contact Prof. Dr. Gunnar Luderer at
luderer@pik-potsdam.de.
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