Early Postdoc Position in Governance of Climate Extremes and Drought Management University of Bern in Switzerland

PhD Position in Law and/or Political Science: Governance of Climate Extremes at the University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland. This PhD is embedded in NCCR CLIM+ , a newly established SNSF-funded National Center of Competence and Switzerland-wide interdisciplinary climate research community focused on climate extremes and actionable adaptation/mitigation responses. The project sits in Workpackage 3 and examines governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes such as droughts, floo...

PhD position at the University of Zurich , Department of Geography, in the Political Geography Group on Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands . The project examines the longue durée of pastoralist land transformation at the intersection of climate change , state intervention, capitalist practices, land-use and land-cover change, property regimes, and pastoralist agency. The dissertation will focus on pastoralist territories in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya . T...

Postdoc opportunity at Agroscope in Zurich, Switzerland, on microplastics quantification in fruits and vegetables . The project focuses on method development and initial application, including sample preparation workflows for isolating microplastics from fruit and vegetable matrices, transfer of the pipeline into a verified standard operating procedure, and development of risk-based and exposure-based monitoring strategies. The work involves quantification of microplastics, data analysis, evalua...

Call for Applications: Postdoc Position in Science Communication at the Institute of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich . The position is in science communication / climate communication and is part of the SciComm Team . The post highlights a strong preference for candidates with an empirical social-science background , and especially those with a research profile in science communication or climate communication. Experience with survey research is also welcome. The ro...

University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), School of Natural Resources / Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR), is recruiting two postdoctoral research associates for a 12-month, 100% research appointment in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States (remote work negotiable). The positions sit within interdisciplinary teams working on human dimensions , social science indicators , stakeholder and community well-being in the Central Plains, and the amplification/diffusion of collaborative adapti...