2021DILEUA98 - Postdoctoral Researcher

Job position

Postdoc position:

The ERC-funded research project " Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts" (LICCI) announces the recruitment of a postdoctoral researcher. The project is located at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is affiliated with the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology.

The Project

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in climate change indicators and local perceptions of climate change impacts of indigenous people and local communities (IPLC). Applicants must have a Ph.D. in environmental sciences. A background in climate change and human ecology will be valued. Applicants must also have interest in developing transdisciplinary tools providing ways to bridge scientific knowledge and indigenous and local knowledge involving actively IPLC through citizen science platforms. The selected fellow will work under Reyes-García supervision for the ERC-LICCI project "Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts. The Contribution of Local Knowledge to Climate Change Research". This research project aims to bring insights from indigenous and local knowledge to climate research by 1) providing data on local climate change impacts on natural and on human systems and 2) testing hypotheses on the global spatial, socioeconomic and demographic distribution of local climate change impacts indicators. The position will be located at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

The selected fellow will work on a literature review of scietific articles leading the creation of a database of climate change impacts on the biophysical and the human systems (socio-economic and cultural impacts) reported by indigenous peoples and local communities around the world. The information will be contrasted with fieldwork data of local perceptions of climate change impacts from IPLC around the world collected by other partners and collaborators of the project.

The fellow will have a major role in the development of the project including developing methods, analysing data, and disseminating results. The fellow will lead the collection of qualitative and quantitative data from the literature review creating a data base able to compare and be combined with other data from the field and from other sources like citizen science platforms. The fellow will collaborate in the process of collection, revision and validation of fieldwork data from partners and collaborators. The fellow will also contribute to the testing and dissemination of a citizen science platform.

The fellow will also be expected to (1) write and publish a mínimum of two articles with the results of the analysis of her/his data (three articles will be the optimum), (2) participate in a policy conference to disseminate project’s results. The fellow will be encouraged to pursue her/his own research ideas, within the topic of the project

Our selection procedure follows the European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers, https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

Benefits

35.964€

Eligibility criteria

Academic record: 30

Previous experience in related projects: 30

Languages: 20

Other (recomendation letter, previous work): 20

Selection process

A single curricular phase