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The Research Fellow will join the remote sensing team within the NWP department at ZAMG. The candidate will develop a severe weather nowcasting prototype application based on a fused data approach. With MTG FCI and LI (and precursor data until MTG data are available) together with other data sources, notably NWCSAF, radar and NWP, a machine learning based algorithm will be developed to predict severe weather. Data mining techniques will be applied to determine the parameters which contribute most to the nowcasting algorithm which will be based on a deep learning technique. The ultimate goal is to identify convective cells at an early stage, follow their development and estimate the severity level they may reach. 

The candidate will work closely with experts on NWCSAF, radar processing, machine learning and remote sensing at ZAMG.

LOCATION

ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik), Hohe Warte 38, Vienna, Austria

QUALIFICATIONS

The Fellow should have a university degree in Physics, Mathematics, Meteorology, Remote Sensing, or equivalent.

LANGUAGES

Candidates must be able to work effectively in English, both verbally and written.

DUTIES

• Preparation of datasets from satellite data (MTG and precursor), NWCSAF, radar and NWP, which will form the basis for the development of the nowcasting algorithm
• Implementation of data mining techniques (to find the most relevant parameters) and machine learning algorithms (to predict severe weather);
• Statistical evaluation of the model, optimisation and tuning of the algorithms;
• Publication and presentation of results (conferences, meetings, journals);

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in satellite data analysis and/or machine learning is desirable.

• Good knowledge of scientific programming (C/C++, Python) and experience with statistical packages (e.g XGBoost, Keras, scikit-learn etc.) are significant assets.

• Experience in working with large data sets applying statistical methods is desirable.

• The ability to work as part of a team, a high level of commitment and interest in continuing education/training is required.

• The Fellow should have a university degree in Physics, Mathematics, Meteorology, Remote Sensing, or equivalent, and relevant research experience, including PhD or at the level thereof.

• Candidates must be able to work effectively in English, both verbally and   written. Good working knowledge of the German language (spoken and written) is an advantage.

EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

The fellowship is offered for one year, with possibility of extension for up to two additional years. The amount of remuneration will be in accordance with ZAMG’s scale. It is analogous to the federal VB-scheme (v1/1) and depending on background and qualifications of the candidate, but at least € 2.718,90 per month (gross).

EUMETSAT is committed to providing an equal opportunities work environment for men and women.
Please note that only nationals of EUMETSAT Member States may apply. The EUMETSAT Convention requires that Staff shall be recruited on the basis of their qualifications, account being taken of the international character of EUMETSAT.

ABOUT EUMETSAT

EUMETSAT is Europe’s meteorological satellite agency. Its role is to establish and operate meteorological satellites to monitor the weather and climate from space - 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This information is supplied to the National Meteorological Services of the organisation's Member and Cooperating States in Europe, as well as other users worldwide.
EUMETSAT also operates several Copernicus missions on behalf of the European Union and provide data services to the Copernicus marine and atmospheric services and their users.
As an intergovernmental European Organisation, EUMETSAT has 30 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom).

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PhD Student Position at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in collaboration with the Institute of Economics, both at the University of Graz.
With its 3,800 employees and 30,000 students, the University of Graz provides an exciting and varied work environment. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in collaboration with the Institute of Economics is offering a
PhD student position in environmental and transport economics (project assistant without doctorate) (30 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of two (plus one) years; position to be filled by February 2020)
Option: Alternatively a funded Master Thesis could form the start, to be ideally subsequently continued, then as a funded PhD student position.

The University of Graz Field of Excellence “Climate Change and Sustainable Transformation” offers a highly attractive research and teaching environment, with world leading faculty across the relevant disciplines involved from its schools of social sciences and economics, natural sciences, environmental sciences, law and the humanities. The Institute of Economics and the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change host research groups from these fields, providing a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment.
The successful candidate will work in the field of econometrics and environmental economics, supervised by Hans Manner (Department of Economics) and Karl Steininger (Wegener Center), in collaboration with an international project consortium on sustainable transport, specifically on the econometric analysis of system behavior (“memory”) of the transport system, funded by the Austrian Climate Research Programme (ACRP) and is offered to complete the doctoral programme (in economics or environmental systems sciences) during the employment period. Work space will be available within Wegener Center’s Economics of Climate Change research group.

Job specification
You will analyze the relationship between policies aimed at reducing Austria’s greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector and the diffusion of their impact. Furthermore, the persistence of the emissions in the transport sector will be analyzed and accounted for in the analysis.
Professional qualifications (required)

• Master's degree in either economics or environmental systems sciences (for the latter with a focus in economics or in business administration) (or equivalent qualification)
• Specialization in econometrics, or environmental or transport economics, demonstrated e.g. by course work or the master’s thesis
• Good knowledge in econometrics and/or empirical economics
• Keen interest in current developments in environmental and transport policy
• Fluency in English, basic knowledge of German

Professional qualifications (desired)

• Knowledge in econometrics, energy economics or transport economics
• Interest in empirical scientific work
• Interest in low-carbon transport technology and behavioral modeling and costing

Gross salary according to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): € 2.205,65 p.m. (14 times a year).
Deadline: applications should be received no later than January 31, 2020

Your application
Please send applications – containing a motivation letter, and – if you have completed your Master programme - an abstract in English of the master’s thesis including a web-link or ftp-link to an electronic copy of the thesis, a Curriculum Vitae including information on previous work experience and publications (if applicable) and a transcript of records, optional a letter of recommendation – in electronic form to the attention of Johanna Pfeifer, johanna.pfeifer-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at indicating “Transport economics application” in your mail header.

Setting and further information
The University of Graz strives to increase the proportion of women in particular in management and faculty positions and therefore encourages qualified women to apply.
We offer you a job with individual responsibility and a variety of tasks. You can expect an enjoyable work climate, flexible work hours and numerous possibilities for further education and personal development. Take advantage of the chance to join a challenging and interdisciplinary work environment in Wegener Center full of team spirit and enthusiasm.
For further information please contact:
Prof. Hans Manner (phone +43 316 380-3446; hans.manner-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)
Prof. Karl Steininger (phone: +43 316 380-8441; karl.steininger-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)

University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Brandhofgasse 5, A-8010 Graz, Austria

Brief information—Wegener Center. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change is an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented institute of the University of Graz, which serves as core center for pooling the competences of the University in the areas Climate, Environmental, and Global Change. The institute brings together research teams and scientists from fields such as geophysics and climate physics, meteorology, economics, geography, and regional sciences. For more information, see www.wegcenter.at

PostDoc Position at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz

With its 3,800 employees and 30,000 students, the University of Graz provides an exciting and varied work environment. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in collaboration with the Institute of Economics is offering a PostDoc position in climate economics (researcher with doctorate) (40 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of three years; position to be filled by February 2020)

The University of Graz Field of Excellence “Climate Changeand Sustainable Transformation” offers a highly attractive research and teaching environment, with world leading faculty across the relevant disciplines involved from its schools of social sciences and economics, natural sciences, environmental sciences, law and the humanities. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change hosts research groups from these fields, providing a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment.The successful candidate will work within Wegener Center’s Economics of Climate Change research group and international project consortia on evaluating climate change impacts and adaptation (projects COACCH and SENTINEL), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme. Advanced PhD candidates will also be considered. 

Job specification

You will assess the macroeconomic consequences of climate change impacts in the EU, particularly focusing on tipping points in the climatic and socio-economic system.Tipping point analysis in socio-economic systems is currently evolving as a new research topic and you will contribute to fill research gaps within this domain.

Professional qualifications (required)

• PhD in economics (or equivalent qualification) with a strong focus on climate change and climate change impact modelling
• Profound knowledge in macroeconomic computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, preferably with experience in GAMS-MPSGE
• Knowledge of state-of-the art climate change scenario design (SSP-RCP framework)
• Keen interest in empirical economics as well as climate policy
• Fluency in English

Professional qualifications (desired)

• Interest in design of instruments and institutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Basic knowledge of German

Gross salary according to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): € 3.879,98 per month (14 times a year). The initial contract covers one year, with the option to extend by two years.

Deadline: applications should be received no later than January 31, 2020

Your application

Please send applications – containing a motivation letter, an abstract in English of the PhD thesis including a web-link or ftp-link to an electronic copy of the thesis, a Curriculum Vitae including information on previous work experience and publications and a transcript of records, optional a letter of recommendation - in electronic form to the attention of Sabine Tschürtz, sabine.tschuertz-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at, indicating “EconClim PostDoc application – climate economics” in your mail header.

Setting and further information

The University of Graz strives to increase the proportion of women in particular in management and faculty positions and therefore encourages qualified women to apply. We offer you a job with individual responsibility and a variety of tasks. You can expect an enjoyable work climate, flexible work hours and numerous possibilities for further education and personal development. Take advantage of the chance to join a challenging and interdisciplinary work environment in Wegener Center full of team spirit and enthusiasm.

For further information please contact:

Prof. Karl Steininger (phone: +43 316 380-8441 or -3451; karl.steininger-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)

Prof. Birgit Bednar-Friedl (phone: +43 316 380-7107; birgit.friedl-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)

University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Brandhofgasse 5A - 8010 Graz, Austria Department of Economics. Universitätsstr.15A - 8010 Graz, Austria

Brief information - Wegener Center. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change is an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented institute of the University of Graz, which serves as core center for pooling the competences of the University in the areas Climate, Environmental, and Global Change. The institute brings together research teams and scientists from fields such as geophysics and climate physics, meteorology, economics, geography, and regional sciences. For more information, see www.wegcenter.at 

With its 3,800 employees and 30,000 students, the University of Graz provides an exciting and varied work environment. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in collaboration with the Institute of Economics is offering a PhD student position in environmental and climate economics (project assistant without doctorate) (30 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of two (plus one) years; position to be filled by February 2020)

The University of Graz Field of Excellence “Climate Change and Sustainable Transition” offers a highly attractive research and teaching environment, with world leading faculty across the relevant disciplines involved from its schools of social sciences and economics, natural sciences, environmental sciences, law and the humanities. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change hosts research groups from these fields, providing a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment.

The successful candidate will work within Wegener Center’s Economics of Climate Change research group and an international project consortium on evaluating low-carbon transformation of carbon intensive regions (project TIPPING+, Enabling positive tipping points towards clean-energy transitions in coal and carbon intensive regions), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) and is expected to complete the doctoral programme (in economics or environmental systems sciences) during the three-year employment period.

Job specification

You will analyze socially acceptable regional future visions up to 2030 to support more durable governance arrangements and strategic goals for carbon intensive regions, identify critical tipping interventions, and devise practical transformation strategies. You will assess the macroeconomic impacts of the implementation of different low-carbon options and policy instruments to induce them. The field of low-carbon transformation is currently forming, with approaches from fields such as psychology, sociology and political science inspiring economic research. You will contribute to this development.

Professional qualifications (required)

• Master's degree in economics or environmental systems sciences (for the latter with a focus in economics or in business administration) (or equivalent qualification)
• Basic knowledge in environmental economics and/or economics of climate change
• Knowledge in policy evaluation tools such as cost-effectiveness analysis or multi-criteria analysis
• Basic knowledge of and ideally also experience in computable general equilibrium modeling (e.g. GAMS/MPSGE)
• Keen interest in empirical economics as well as energy and climate policy
• Fluency in English, basic knowledge of German

Professional qualifications (desired)

• Interest in empirical scientific work
• Interest in design of instruments and institutions for low-carbon transitions
• Interest in psychology, sociology or political science

Gross salary according to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): € 2,205.65p.m. (14 times a year).

Deadline: applications should be received no later than January 31, 2020

Your application

Please send applications - containing a motivation letter, an abstract in English of the master’s thesis including a web-link or ftp-link to an electronic copy of the thesis, a Curriculum Vitae including information on previous work experience and publications (if applicable) and a transcript of records, optional a letter of recommendation - in electronic form to

Prof. Karl Steininger, University of Graz, to the attention of Sabine Tschürtz, sabine.tschuertz-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at, indicating “EconClim application - environment and climate” in your mail header.

Setting and further information

The University of Graz strives to increase the proportion of women in particular in management and faculty positions and therefore encourages qualified women to apply. We offer you a job with individual responsibility and a variety of tasks. You can expect an enjoyable work climate, flexible work hours and numerous possibilities for further education and personal development. Take advantage of the chance to join a challenging and interdisciplinary work environment in Wegener Center full of team spirit and enthusiasm.

For further information please contact: Prof. Karl Steininger (phone: +43 316 380-8441; karl.steininger-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)

University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Brandhofgasse 5A - 8010 Graz, Austria Department of Economics, Universitätsstraße 15A - 8010 Graz

Austria Brief information - Wegener Center

The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change is an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented institute of the University of Graz, which serves as core center for pooling the competences of the University in the areas Climate, Environmental, and Global Change. The institute brings together research teams and scientists from fields such as geophysics and climate physics, meteorology, economics, geography, and regional sciences. For more information, see www.wegcenter.at 

With its 3,800 employees and 30,000 students, the University of Graz provides an exciting and varied work environment. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in collaboration with the Institute of Economics is offering a PhD student position in environmental and energy economics (project assistant without doctorate) (30 hours a week; fixed-term employment for the period of two (plus one) years; position to be filled by February 2020)

The University of Graz Field of Excellence “Climate Change and Sustainable Transformation” offers a highly attractive research and teaching environment, with world leading faculty across the relevant disciplines involved from its schools of social sciences and economics, natural sciences, environmental sciences, law and the humanities. The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change hosts research groups from these fields, providing a stimulating interdisciplinary research environment. The successful candidate will work within Wegener Center’s Economics of Climate Change research group and an international project consortium on sustainable energy transition, specifically on the macroeconomic impacts of cost-or performance-optimizing energy sector development (project SENTINEL), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme (Framework Programme for Research and Innovation) and is expected to complete the doctoral programme (in economics or environmental systems sciences) during the three-year employment period.

Job specification

You will analyze different pathways of technology options for a transition to a low-carbon energy system in the EU. You will assess the macroeconomic impacts of the implementation of different low-carbon energy transition pathways using a global multi-country multi-sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. A key innovation in the project will be the linking of bottom-up energy market models with the top-down macroeconomic model. Here, the quantification of uncertainty ranges will be an integral part in the macroeconomic assessment.

Professional qualifications (required)

• Master's degree in either economics or environmental systems sciences (for the latter with a focus in economics or in business administration) (or equivalent qualification)
• Specialization in environmental economics, demonstrated e.g. by course work or the master’s thesis
• Basic knowledge of and ideally also experience in computable general equilibrium modeling (e.g. GAMS/MPSGE)
• Keen interest in current developments in energy and climate policy
• Fluency in English, basic knowledge of German

Professional qualifications (desired)

• Knowledge in energy economics or energy engineering
• Interest in empirical scientific work
• Interest in low-carbon energy technology modeling and costing

Gross salary according to the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): € 2.205,65p.m. (14 times a year).

Deadline: applications should be received no later than January 31, 2020

Your application

Please send applications - containing a motivation letter, an abstract in English of the master’s thesis including a web-link or ftp-link to an electronic copy of the thesis, a Curriculum Vitae including information on previous work experience and publications (if applicable) and a transcript of records, optional a letter of recommendation - in electronic form to Prof. Karl Steininger, University of Graz, to the attention of Sabine Tschürtz, sabine.tschuertz-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at, indicating “EconClim application –environment and energy” in your mail header.

Setting and further information

The University of Graz strives to increase the proportion of women in particular in management and faculty positions and therefore encourages qualified women to apply.We offer you a job with individual responsibility and a variety of tasks. You can expect an enjoyable work climate, flexible work hours and numerous possibilities for further education and personal development. Take advantage of the chance to join a challenging and interdisciplinary work environment in Wegener Center full of team spirit and enthusiasm.

For further information please contact:

Prof. Karl Steininger (phone: +43 316 380-8441; karl.steininger-klammeraffe-uni-graz-punkt-at)

University of Graz, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Brandhofgasse 5A - 8010 Graz

Austria University of Graz, Department of Economics, Universitätsstraße15A - 8010 Graz

Austria Brief information - Wegener Center.

The Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change is an interdisciplinary, internationally oriented institute of the University of Graz, which serves as core center for pooling the competences of the University in the areas Climate, Environmental, and Global Change. The institute brings together research teams and scientists from fields such as geophysics and climate physics, meteorology, economics, geography, and regional sciences. For more information, see www.wegcenter.at

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