Jobs and Fellowships

The scientific quarterly Mountain Research and Development (MRD) is looking for one to two additional Editors-in-Chief to join the team. This role is pivotal in shaping MRD’s global strategic position as an independent, not-for-profit peer-reviewed journal and its mission to advance transformative knowledge for sustainable mountain futures.

University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to investigate risk perception and adaptation behavior regarding climate change and natural hazards, specifically novel wildfires. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary working group of faculty, students, and postdocs studying human and ecosystem adaptation to wildfire risk using an integrated social-environmental system framework. The fellow will assist with a research project involving statistical and spatial analysis of survey data, culminating in scholarly outputs and practical policy recommendations. 

The postdoc will report to and work under the mentorship of Dr. Paige Fischer (School for Environment and Sustainability) and a team of other faculty members engaged with the research through the Western Forest and Fire Initiative.

This position will be a one-year, full-time, term-limited appointment. The start date is flexible.

Job offer will be closed as soon as the position is filled.

Der Forschungsschwerpunkt liegt im Öffentlichen Recht, insbesondere im Umwelt- und Klimaschutzrecht mit Fokus auf Anlagenrecht, Energieinfrastrukturrecht, Energieraumplanung, UVP-Recht und Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung sowie deren verfassungs- und europarechtlichen Bezügen. Die Tätigkeit umfasst die Publikation in einschlägigen Fachzeitschriften, die Einwerbung und Leitung nationaler und internationaler Forschungsprojekte sowie Lehre und die Betreuung bzw. Mitbetreuung von Abschlussarbeiten. Darüber hinaus gehören Wissenstransfer, die Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses und die Übernahme von Aufgaben der universitären Selbstverwaltung zu den Tätigkeitsfeldern.

Bewerbungsfrit: 10 September 2026

The Research Assistant will support the work of the Preventable Deaths Tracker (https://preventabledeathstracker.net/), the first national digital vigilance platform that enables learning from medico-legal death investigations.

The Preventable Deaths Tracker (PDT) is a relational database currently run on WordPress that automatically collects coroners’ Prevention of Future Deaths reports (PFDs) published in England and Wales since 2013 and Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAIs) written by sheriffs since 1999. There are over 6,300 PFDs and 900 FAIs published as of August 2026 in the database that updates daily. The PDT has been used to conduct a range of research and policy reports: https://preventabledeathstracker.net/research/ and is being used to drive forward legislative change in Parliament.

Application Deadline: 20 September 2026

he PhD position is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project, “Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands”, which runs for four years. The position includes an SNSF-standard salary and entitlements to research funds for fieldwork in East Africa. The PhD position requires the candidate to write their dissertation on this theme, with a specific fieldwork focus on pastoralist territories in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. The project aims to understand the longue durée of pastoralist land transformation at the intersection of climate change, state intervention, and capitalist practices. It interrogates land-use and land-cover change across time and space, changes in property regimes, pastoralist populations' agency in navigating internally and externally driven changes, and practices of future-making.

Application Deadline: 30 September 2026

At the Geophysical Institute and the Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, there is a vacancy for a postdoctoral research fellow position in the physics of weather and climate and their representation through machine learning. The position is for a fixed term of 3 years and is part of the project “Reaching AI Projections Trustworthy for Unseen Rainfall Extremes (RAPTURE)”, funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.

Application Deadline: 12 Ocotber 2026

The NOMIS Foundation–ETH Fellowship Programme supports postdoctoral researchers at ETH Zurich within the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life (COPL). The programme is intended to foster the development of young interdisciplinary researchers in the field of the origin and prevalence of life who have demonstrated scientific excellence in the early stages of their careers, and to enable the conditions necessary to conduct interdisciplinary, fundamental and high-risk research with some level of independence and autonomy.

Application Deadline: 06 November 2026

This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others). The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science. Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting goveranance responses and questions of justice.

Review of the applications will start mid-October and Interview are planned end of October; beginning of November. Interviews will be held online.