PhD Opportunities in Climate Science in Italy

Khalifa University is inviting motivated doctoral applicants to join the ENGEOS Lab – Climate & Environmental Intelligence through the Earth Science Department. The fully funded PhD opportunity is intended for research addressing the atmosphere, climate, and environment. The lab’s research context brings together climate science, environmental science, remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric physics, meteorology, spatial modelling, artificial intelligence, and computer science. Doctor...

This PhD project investigates how humanitarian risk pools can respond to a changing climate and make resilient financial decisions under uncertainty. Risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility use predefined triggers, including flood forecast probabilities, to release pooled funds before or after disasters. The research will examine how climate science, data science, and decision science can be combined to improve the modelling th...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

This PhD opportunity at Durham University investigates how global bird communities are changing under land-use and climate change. The project addresses an important challenge in biodiversity science: bird monitoring data are often unevenly distributed and may not represent environmental changes across the wider regions where monitoring takes place. The doctoral researcher will link bird survey time series from three continents with environmental change data. The work will assess whether monitor...

Infrastructure system management in a changing climate is a PhD studentship sponsored by Network Rail in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, alongside Dr Kristen MacAskill and her research team. The project examines how data, systems thinking, and climate science can support better decisions about the future resilience of railway infrastructure. It will investigate climate-related thresholds and tipping points across railway systems, asking how these emerging conditions can inform th...

NTNU is offering a PhD project in machine learning for the conservation of historic buildings. The position is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action CHARM Doctoral Network, which develops resilient, sustainable and climate-adapted methods for conserving architectural heritage. The project, titled “Understanding conservation condition and rehabilitation needs at district scale in time of energy saving and climate change via machine learning driven method,” focuses on using artificial intellig...

The University of Cambridge Department of Zoology is offering a funded PhD project in quantitative marine ecology focused on regional drivers of seabird population change and future resilience. The research will investigate why some seabird populations decline rapidly while others remain stable or recover. The project will examine how climate change, fisheries, and other environmental pressures interact to influence seabird survival, reproduction, and population dynamics across regions. The stud...

This PhD project investigates how forest carbon uptake is changing worldwide under climate change and disturbance. The successful candidate will combine atmospheric CO₂ observations, Earth Observation products, and numerical models to quantify how the global forest carbon sink varies across continents and over time. The work focuses on integrating multiple data streams into an existing prototype modelling framework and extending its data assimilation capacity so it can use large Earth Observatio...

The IRI THESys Graduate Programme at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin invites doctoral applicants to join a structured research environment focused on the transformations of human-environment systems. The programme is based in Berlin and is developed in cooperation with leading research partners including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies, the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, the...