The climate needs bright minds. The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. It is one of the world‘s leading research institutions in its field and offers natural and social scientists from around the world an inspiring environment for excellent interdisciplinary research.

For our macroeconomic modeling group PIK is offering a

Postdoctoral Position (m/f/d) in the field of economic modeling of climate change impacts on economic growth
Reference Number: Postdoc Position-17-2019

(Position number: RD 4-PhD Position-18-2019)

starting in fall 2019.

The position is funded for 2 years (Postdoc) and is part of the BMBF project "Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Climate Extremes (SLICE)". Remuneration is in accordance with German public tariff scheme (TV-L Brandenburg), salary group E 13. This is a full-time position with a weekly working time of 40 hours.

Key responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will work on a project investigating the effects of climate change impacts, in particular extreme events, on the long-term economic development on the national and household level.
• He / she will be responsible to develop a household model and connect to empirical data provided in the project to calibrate and apply the model.
• Furthermore, the candidate will contribute to the efforts of investigating novel concepts for integrating climate change damages into integrated energy-economy-landuse-climate models and to assess distributional effects of climate change impacts.

Requirements:

• PostDocs in Economics, Physics, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, System Sciences or a related field
• Expertise in economic growth theory or economic analysis of inequality or empirical work on economic impacts of climate change, respectively
• Training in formal, quantitative methods, excellent analytical skills and interest in theoretical and applied modeling (programming skills in R or GAMS are an advantage)

We expect:

• the ability to work independently and on your own initiative
• strong motivation and good organizational skills
• strong communication skills in English (the working language at PIK is English)
• capacity for teamwork
• capacity to quickly familiarize yourself with new topics

The successful candidates will be working in the group "Macroeconomic modeling of climate change mitigation and impacts", part of the "Mitigation and sustainable development pathways" section of PIK‘s Research Domain III on "Transformation Pathways".

We offer:

• an inspiring, international and interdisciplinary work environment in one of the world‘s leading research institutes on climate change mitigation and impact research
• high-impact research: PIK researchers publish in renowned international journals
• participation in solution-oriented research in projects with several German and international partners and stakeholders and with immediate policy relevance and impact on international assessments such as IPCC reports
• opportunities for cooperation with PIK‘s national and international network of leading climate & economic research institutes and think tanks
• a collective pay scheme and associated benefits

PIK seeks to increase the share of women in scientific positions and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. In cases of equal qualification and within the given legal scope, women will be given preference. Applications by persons with a migration background are expressly encouraged. Applications of disabled persons with equal qualifications will be regarded favourably. PIK also encourages applications by parents returning from parental leave.

Application documents should comprise a letter of motivation including research interests, a CV with the contact details of two referees, certificates, detailed transcripts of university grades, a sample of your work (e.g., term paper, thesis or journal publication) and a publication list. Please send your full application as a single PDF document by Email to

bewerbung@pik-potsdam.de

quoting the reference Postdoc Position-17-2019 and mentioning where you read about the position.