PIK Potsdam: PostDoc positions in ice sheet and Earth system modelling

Published: Aug 21, 2024 by The PISM Authors

A two-year PostDoc positions in ice sheet and Earth system modelling is available in the Ice Dynamics group, as part of the new Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU), at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

The position is part of the German Climate Modeling Initiative PalMod III, with focus on the interaction and possible feedbacks of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the solid Earth, the global sea level and the climate. Simulations will be performed with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) coupled to the global solid Earth and sea level model VILMA, to investigate tipping characteristics and potential interhemispheric interactions, in cooperation with ESM modelers within PalMod (CLIMBER-X, MPI-ESM, AWI-ESM, CESM).

The position will start on 01/10/2024 or as soon as possible afterwards. Application deadline: 31 August 2024 ! Detailed information: https://t1p.de/cwp18 If you have any questions about the vacancy or require further information, please contact: albrecht@pik-potsdam.de

Two PhD fellowship positions in ice sheet modelling are advertised at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

The Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, is offering a PhD position in the field of coupled ice sheet-ocean modelling. The core of the project is to run simulations with FESOM-PISM (a coupled ocean-ice shelf-ice sheet model with evolving cavity geometries) for different 21st-century climate projections to obtain well-constrained trajectories of future ice mass loss from the vast Antarctic Ice Sheet. Model results will feed into a fingerprinting method that considers the ocean response as well as gravitational effects and contributions from other sources. The final product will be a time series of global maps of regional sea-level variations that consider all of the most relevant processes.