Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.mpg.de
PhD Researcher (m/f/d): Economic Impacts from Complex Climate Risks
- Location
- Jena
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Junior
- Field
- Research & Science
Requirements at a glance
- Master's degree (Required)
- Atmospheric dynamics (Required)
- Python (Required)
- Large climate datasets analysis (Required)
- English (Required)
- Climate model output experience (Preferred)
- Statistical modelling (Preferred)
- Causal inference (Preferred)
- Explainable AI (Preferred)
- Machine learning (Preferred)
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PhD Researcher (m/f/d): Economic Impacts from Complex Climate Risks
The Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) was founded in summer 2022 and is a dynamically growing, highly-interdisciplinary and international research institution. The research focuses on modeling and analyzing the interrelationships between biophysical and human-made systems, looking from the deep past to the future. The institute examines how humanity has driven the emergence of the Anthropocene – the period in which human activities began significantly impacting our planet’s climate and ecosystems – and identifying potential intervention points towards a more sustainable future.
The Carl Zeiss Stiftung Independent Research Group on High-End Climate Risks (CZS-HECR) at MPI-GEA works towards an end-to-end understanding of worst-case climate outcomes, from unprecedented and compounding extremes to their societal impacts. The group combines fundamental physical process understanding rooted in climate physics and Earth System analyses, targeted climate model experiments, advanced statistics, including machine-learning- and explainable AI, to deliver usable climate risk estimates under current and future climates for core societal sectors such as health, food, energy and finance.
Doctoral researchers join an interdisciplinary team, and a broad international network are provided with highly competitive research conditions including generous support for travel and research visits.
Candidate tasks
- Investigate the economic impacts of extreme, record-breaking and compounding weather extremes
- Develop novel statistical methods to integrate extreme weather events and their complex interaction into empirical damage functions and / or integrated assessment modelling frameworks
- Apply and/or develop agent-based economic models to investigate impacts from compounding weather extremes
- Apply causality tools and advanced statistical methods to disentangle drivers of worst case climate impacts
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