Vacancies at the IMAU

PhD position

PhD Position on Climate Dynamics

Join the IMAU and research the interactions between the Atlantic ocean circulation and the Amazon Rainforest.

Your job
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the Amazon rainforest play important roles in the Earth’s climate system. Both of these subsystems have been marked as tipping elements and global climate change seems to push both to their tipping point. While both subsystems have been studied in isolation, it is yet largely unknown how they may interact and affect each other’s tipping behaviour. Read more.

PhD position

PhD Position on Calving of Ice Sheets

In this project you will implement a calving scheme in UFEMISM, test it, and study the Greenland ice sheet's evolution.

Your job
Your task will be to improve an existing ice sheet model (UFEMISM) with a calving algorithm and calving law and applying this to the Greenland ice sheet. UFEMISM is a relatively new ice model with a growing user community aiming to be part of coupled Earth System Models. As such you work as part of a small group of people working on several aspects aiming to improve the role of ice sheets in climate models. This is done in the international context of ice sheet model improvements. Interested? Read on!