Applications are invited for an individual to contribute to the research project "CLimate change Integrated assessment Methodology for cross-Sectoral Adaptation and Vulnerability in Europe (CLIMSAVE)". CLIMSAVE is a European Commission funded project involving 18 research institutes. It aims to develop and apply an integrated methodology for stakeholder-led, climate change impact and vulnerability assessment that explicitly evaluates regional and continental scale adaptation options, and cross-sectoral interactions between the key sectors driving landscape change in Europe (agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts/floodplains, water resources, urban development and transport). A range of sectoral meta-models will be linked within a common assessment platform that is user-friendly, interactive and web-based to allow the rapid reproduction of climate change impacts by stakeholders themselves. The applicant will contribute to the development and integration of the biodiversity meta-model within the platform.
You will be required to have a PhD (or equivalent experience) in a field of relevance to ecological modelling, a high level of proficiency in a relevant programming language, especially C and R, and experience of Geographical Information Systems and manipulation of large datasets.
