GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel is a foundation of public law jointly financed by the Federal Republic of Germany (90 %) and the state of Schleswig-Holstein (10 %) and is one of the internationally leading institutions in the field of marine sciences. Currently GEOMAR disposes over an annual budget of approx. 80 million Euro and has approx. 1000 employees.
The research unit Marine Biogeochemical Modelling of research division 2: Marine Biogeochemistry is offering a Postdoc in Earth system modelling and assessing CO2 removal approaches starting on September 1st, 2022.
Project Description
What happens to the Earth system once we reach our emissions goals? And how much does this reaction depend on how we got there? The EU Horizon Europe research project “RESCUE: Response of the Earth system to overshoot, climate neutrality and negative emissions” will contribute fundamental knowledge that will bring us closer to understanding the response of the climate and the Earth system to global mean temperature stabilization following greenhouse gas emissions reduction, with or without overshoot. RESCUE will also assess the potential role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in reducing net greenhouse gas emissions as well as its environmental impacts, side effects and potential co-benefits.
Job Description
Initial work will involve running a state-of-the-art Earth system model (FOCI) to simulate temperature stabilization scenarios with and without overshoot to assess the climate dynamics and carbon cycle response of these different scenarios. The scientist is expected to explicitly implement four core carbon dioxide removal measures (ocean alkalinity enhancement, direct air carbon removal and storage, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, afforestation) into FOCI. This will be done in collaboration with external partners with expertise in terrestrial modelling. A special focus of the analysis lies on efficiency, feedbacks and reversibility especially in the context of carbon cycle components. The candidate is expected to collaborate with other Earth system modelers as well as integrated assessment modelers.
Publishing results and contributing to interdisciplinary publications, reports, and synthesis products is expected.
Qualification
We are looking for a creative and committed scientist with PhD in a natural sciences subject and extensive knowledge of physical and/or biogeochemical modelling or Earth system modelling. Knowledge of carbon dioxide removal approaches and their assessment will be beneficial. Experience in working as part of an interdisciplinary team or with integrated assessment scenarios would be helpful.
Required:
- A PhD in natural science subject
- Experience in physical and/or biogeochemical modelling or Earth system modelling
- Good knowledge of the global carbon-climate dynamics and associated feedbacks
- Willingness to work with external partners and experience presenting results at international conferences
- Excellent English language skills (oral and written)
Desired qualifications:
- Experience in working with an interdisciplinary team
- Experience with simulating climate change scenarios designed by integrated assessment models
- Experience investigating carbon dioxide removal approaches (especially terrestrial CDR)
The position is available for a funding period of three years. The salary depends on qualification and could be up to the class 13 TVöD-Bund of the German tariff for public employees. This is a full-time position. The position is basically divisible. Flexible working time models are possible in principle.
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel seeks to increase the proportion of female scientists and explicitly encourages qualified female academics to apply.
GEOMAR is an equal opportunity employer and encourages scientists with disabilities to apply. Qualified disabled applicants will receive preference in the application process.
Please send your application for this post including a motivation letter, CV, and 2 references via email in a single pdf-file mentioning the keyword “RESCUE – FOCI” in the subject line. Please send your application not later than 8th June 2022 to the following email address: bewerbung@geomar.de.
As soon as the selection procedure has finished, all your application data will be removed according to data protection regulation.
For further information regarding the position and research unit please contact David Keller (dkeller@geomar.de) or Nadine Mengis (nmengis@geomar.de).
Further information, can be found here.