Research Fellow in Modelling Climate-Ice Sheet Interactions

Are you an ambitious climate scientist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to work with world leaders in climate-ice sheet science and artificial intelligence to tackle future sea level rise? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities?

You will join a team of scientists led by Dr Lauren Gregoire as part of the prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project “Constraining projections of ice sheet instabilities and future sea level rise”. The ambitious and exciting aim of the project is to provide robust estimates of ‘worst case’ sea level rise in the 21st century and beyond using information from past events when ice sheets became unstable. You will run ensembles of coupled climate-ice sheet simulations on High Performance Computing facilities at the University of Leeds to investigate the climatic triggers of past and future ice sheet instabilities. You will collaborate with the project statistician to develop an efficient statistical model of ice sheet surface mass balance and evaluate the likelihood of rapid sea level rise. You will also work with MetOffice project partners, government agencies and energy and transport industries, as well as with colleagues from the Priestley International Centre for Climate on the co-production of knowledge on the policy implications of ‘worst-case’ sea level rise. You will have opportunities for training, including travel and secondments to Grenoble, the University of Reading, the University of Exeter as well as government and industrial partners.

You will have, or be close to obtaining, a PhD in Climate Science, Meteorology or Glaciology and have extensive experience of using models and observations to study climate and/or ice sheet surface mass balance processes. You may potentially be familiar with methods for quantifying model uncertainty or may have insight into how analyses of past climate can inform future projections. Applications for part-time work, job-share or other flexible working arrangements are encouraged.

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Working time: 30 hours (80% FTE)

Contract type: Fixed term (until 31st January 2025)