PhD in Statistics: Conditional Generative Modelling of Local High-Impact Climate Events University of Bern in Switzerland

PhD position at the University of Bern in the Climatology Group at the Institute of Geography and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. The project, led by Prof. Stefan Brönnimann , focuses on past weather and climate extremes in Switzerland . The thesis will develop multi-variable, high-resolution daily weather reconstructions for Switzerland and Europe and analyse the historical frequency, intensity, characteristics, and timing of extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, and...

ETH Zurich is inviting applications for a Doctoral Student position on the impacts of climate and hydrological extremes on water quality. The project is hosted at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zurich and the WSL-Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, and it is embedded in the NCCR CLIM+ programme funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The research focuses on understanding how climate- and hydrology-related extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, ...

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA) is advertising 2 fully funded PhD positions in the Climate Intelligence Lab in the Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, Whiting School of Engineering. The projects focus on AI weather/climate emulators , seasonal-to-subseasonal (S2S) prediction , Western US hydroclimate , wildfire , drought , streamflow , and causal predictive models . The lab works with large climate datasets, Linux systems, historical observations, and climate models, ...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ecological Stability at the University of Zurich , Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies. This is a postdoctoral opportunity for an early-career researcher to develop and lead an original research programme on ecological stability, including the development and application of concepts and tools such as response diversity . The group led by Owen Petchey studies the determinants of ecological stability in temporal and spatial dimensions, u...

The University of Geneva’s Global Studies Institute (GSI) is advertising a doctoral assistant position within the Bachelor of International Relations (BARI) program. This opportunity is centered on statistics , mathematics , functional data analysis , kernel methods , and RKHS , with teaching duties in probability, statistics, and mathematics. The successful candidate will enroll in the doctoral program at the University of Geneva and devote 50% of their time to writing a thesis. Responsibilitie...