Job opportunity: Modelling terrestrial ecosystems response to environmental changes
19 February 2024
KIT is searching for a creative and communicative colleague to join the land-ecosystem modelling group in the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You will be developing and applying advanced model systems (i.e., the dynamic global vegetation model LPJ-GUESS or coupled socio-economic/ecological models (LandSyMM)). Your skills will help to solve questions of utmost importance, posed by the combined challenges of climate change, land-use change and biodiversity loss.
Tasks include:
- Lead and contribute to simulations and analyses of model output, for instance in context of a number of EU projects (ForestPaths: https://efi.int/news/forestpaths-project-forest-based-policy-pathways-towards-climate-neutral-society-2022-06-13; wildE: https://www.wilde-project.eu/about) and other initiatives
- Develop ideas for exciting research within the context of these projects
- Develop new modelling features such as agroforestry
- Lead and contribute to publications arising from the work
- Contribute to general tasks in the team such as teaching, website maintenance, or project reports
