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01.04.25/open until filled
Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist
Virginia Tech
The Evidence Synthesis Information Scientist, reporting to the Assistant Director, Evidence Synthesis Services, will join the collaborative Evidence Synthesis Services team in supporting evidence synthesis research at Virginia Tech for Blacksburg, Roanoke, the National Capital Region, and other university locations and affiliates. The successful candidate will be an ambassador for high-quality evidence synthesis at Virginia Tech; as an expert in search techniques and synthesis methods such as systematic reviews; provide guidelines-based consultation, outreach, live and asynchronous training, and additional support for systematic reviews and other topics related to evidence synthesis; explore emerging tools, resources, and methods for evidence synthesis; supervise student assistants; serve as subject area liaison to one or more departments, institutes, or program areas; and contribute to supporting the Virginia Tech community in adoption of open and collaborative research practices. Participate in serving on institutional or professional committees, and demonstrating a commitment to team efforts, service excellence, and Virginia Tech’s Principles of Community.
Review date: 01 April 2025
Position is open until filled
03.04.25
Postdoc Position in Ocean Tipping Points and Impacts
University of Bern
The Ocean Modelling group within the Climate- and Environmental Physics Division at the University of Bern invites applications for a postdoctoral position focused on modeling ocean-climate tipping points and their impacts. The successful candidate will explore extreme future outcomes by developing “what if” scenarios – examining the consequences of crossing critical tipping points in the ocean's physical system. Key areas of focus include disruptions to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Southern Ocean circulation, along with their associated impacts on ocean biogeochemistry and climate. The candidate will also have the opportunity to pursue related topics and develop new projects.
The project offers the opportunity to work with a comprehensive, fully coupled climate-carbon cycle Earth system model and collaborate with experts in tipping points within the Horizon Europe TipESM project (https://www.tipesm.eu), the Climate and Environmental Physics Division and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research. Employment conditions and remuneration are in accordance with the standards of the University of Bern, Switzerland. The initial appointment is for two years.
Review of applications begins on April 3.
08.04.25
Lise Meitner Excellence Program
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
The Max Planck Society has initiated a number of measures to attract increasing numbers of women to a career in science and provide them with equal opportunities for all stages of their career. An important initiative is the Lise Meitner Excellence Program. The position as a Lise Meitner Group Leader will be advertised to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. There is a multi-stage, competitive selection process, held in close consultation with interested Max Planck Institutes. The Lise Meitner Groups are furnished with their own resources for their entire duration.
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) encourages social scientists and demographers to apply for this program.
09.04.25
Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in im Projekt Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030
Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit GFZ
Die Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030 (wpn2030) ist Teil der deutschen Nachhaltigkeitsarchitektur. Die wpn2030 veranstaltet am Science-Policy-Interface Austauschformate (z.B Beirätedialog, DNS-Labs), die verschiedene (wissenschaftliche) Nachhaltigkeitsakteure zusammenbringen, um gemeinsam die Herausforderungen der Transformation in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit zu reflektieren und Lösungen zu erarbeiten. Träger der wpn2030 sind das Deutsche Komitee für Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in Future Earth (DKN), das Sustainable Development Solutions Network Germany (SDSN) und das Forschungsinstitut für Nachhaltigkeit am GFZ (RIFS). Die wpn2030 wird von März 2023 bis Juni 2026 als ein Verbundprojekt gefördert. Koordiniert wird das Projekt durch RIFS, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) des Helmholtz-Zentrums Hereon, dem Wuppertal Institut (WI) und dem German Institut of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
Der wpn2030 ist am RIFS ein Begleitforschungsprojekt angehängt, in dem die Aktivitäten der wpn2030 wissenschaftlich evaluiert werden. Einerseits wird in diesem Rahmen die Prozessqualität der von der wpn2030 angebotenen Formate evaluiert, andererseits soll ein Wirkungsmodell für die Aktivitäten der wpn2030 erstellt werden, das Weichen für die längerfristige Wirkungsevaluation stellen soll.
Der/die erfolgreiche Bewerber:in baut auf den bisherigen Arbeiten zu Prozess- und Wirkungsanalyse auf, passt diese ggf. an, wertet diese aus und disseminiert sie. Für die Prozessanalyse werden die Aktivitäten der wpn2030 durch verschiedene auf die Formate zugeschnittene Evaluationsfragebögen begleitet. Für die Erstellung der Wirkungsmodelle werden Interviews mit Organisator:innen, Teilnehmer:innen und Expert:innen geführt, deren Auswertung die Grundlage für vorläufige Wirkmodelle bietet. Diese Modelle werden gemeinsam mit Expert:innen z.B. in Workshops reflektiert und sollen zum einen dazu dienen, die Formate wirkungsvoller zu gestalten, und zum anderen, den Aufbau einer Wirkungsdatenbank zu informieren. Die Weiterführung und der Abschluss dieser Tätigkeiten sind die zentralen Aufgaben der ausgeschriebenen Position.
Bewerbungsfrist: 09. April 2025
15.04.25
Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit
Universität Bern, Departement für Sozialanthropologie und Kulturwissenschaftliche Studien
In dieser Position können Wissenschafter:innen mit einem ausgeprägten Interesse an der Schnittstelle Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit ihre Expertise in Projektentwicklung, Forschung und Lehre einbringen. Das Departement bietet eine spannende Umgebung durch die Zusammenarbeit der Fachbereiche Sozialanthropologie, Mittlerer Osten und muslimische Gesellschaften sowie Religionswissenschaft. Die Stelle ist im transversalen Bereich des Departements angesiedelt und ermöglicht eine kreative Zusammenarbeit mit den unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten in den Fachbereichen.
Die Stelle umfasst folgende Aufgaben
Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Projekten an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit im Austausch mit den SAKS-Mitarbeitenden
Entwicklung von Lehre an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit
Bewerbungsfrist: 15. April 2025
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15.04.25
PhD position (4 years, full time): just climate resilience & social learning with film
University of Bern
You will be part of the transdisciplinary EU-funded Horizon project “JustREACH: Just Climate Resilience through Enhanced Adaptation and Capacity Harnessing”. The project aims to enhance resilience by empowering local actors to achieve equitable climate adaptation outcomes. We will work in five pilot regions in urban, industrial,
and rural settings in Germany, France, Greece, the UK and Croatia. Facing resource constraints, the authorities often struggle to balance overlapping objectives and to co-create an understanding of just resilience. The research project involves researchers, citizens with a cause, policymakers, businesses, and civic organizations to co-create tools and ways of working together to implement climate adaptation plans for well-being and societal transformation. Social learning videos with authentic storytelling will be co-created at all pilot sites to share their transformative knowledge about adaptation processes.
Your tasks:
Conduct transdisciplinary PhD research in Geography with a methodological focus on understanding and fostering social learning processes across the pilot sites,
Learning the Social Learning Video method, exploring the potential, critically reflecting and developing the method further,
Conduct extensive multi-sited fieldwork with the camera in a collaborative manner (five pilot sites),
Contributing to JustREACH workshops, conferences, reading groups, colloquia and mLab events,
Outputs of your PhD are social learning videos and published results in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Application Deadline: 15 April 2025
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30.04.25
PhD Student on Genetic Counselling and Diagnostics
University of Bern
The Department of Human Genetics at the Inselspital is conducting extensive and interdisciplinary services in the area of genetic counselling and diagnostics and is scientifically associated with the Department for Biomedical research (DBMR) at the University of Bern.
The research group of the department (Prof. Dr. Dr. Christiane Zweier) focuses on the clinical, genetic and functional characterization of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including intellectual disability and epilepsy. Neurodevelopmental disorders are an important health concern affecting 2-3% of the population and are clinically and genetically extremely heterogeneous. Understanding the underlying causes and pathomechanisms is crucial to path the way for development of targeted therapies.
The challenge
The successful applicant will be involved in an SNF-funded research project entitled “Multiple genetic diagnoses as a window into pathomechanisms of Rare Diseases”.
The project aims at
1) characterizing the landscape of multiple diagnosis in patients with rare disorders and
2) investigating functional interactions between concurrently mutated genes to better understand underlying pathomechanisms for individual diseases as well as for oligogenicity and genetic modifiers. The experimental spectrum of the PhD projects will include classic molecular and genetic methods as well as in vivo and in vitro model systems such as Drosophila melanogaster and iPSC-derived and other cell-based systems.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2025
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04.05.25
Postdoc Position at the Max Planck | University of Helsinki Centre for Social Inequalities in Population Health
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
The Max Planck – University of Helsinki Center for Social Inequalities in Population Health is currently seeking to appoint one or more full-time post-doctoral researchers. We welcome applications from researchers with a PhD in demography, sociology, statistics, epidemiology, public health, economics, computer science, and allied fields. The successful candidate(s) will work on one or several of the four research themes of the Center: [1] the links between family and health, [2] the role of genetic factors in shaping health inequalities, [3] international comparisons of health and health inequalities, and [4] developing new methods, in particular longitudinal modelling approaches, methods for causal inference, and techniques leveraging genetic data. We are also open to applicants interested in other topics covered in the Department Social Demography at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), including fertility, mortality and morbidity, and labor markets. The successful candidate(s) will develop their own agenda within the Center, and they will contribute their skills and knowledge to other projects in the Center and to the MPIDR. We are seeking creative, self-driven, and collaborative scholars. Good knowledge of quantitative methods and statistical software such as R, Python, or Stata is required.
Application Deadline: 04 May 2025
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Open until filled
Postdoctoral Scholar on Public Interest Technology
Virginia Tech
The Public Interest Technology Lab in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the Virginia Tech Research Center, Arlington, Virginia, seeks a highly motivated and collaborative researcher with expertise in public interest technology. The mission of the Public Interest Technology lab is to advance research, education, policy, and practice on the governance, design, and deployment of emerging technologies to serve the public interest.
The postdoctoral scholar will join a highly collaborative multi-institutional team of faculty, students, and stakeholders. Individuals with interests in one or more the following topics are encouraged to apply: ethical and societal implications of AI or related technologies; responsible AI/AI governance; technology, policy, and society; biopsychosocial implications of digital technologies; Human-AI Interaction; and/or equity-centered data science and analytics.
This is a two-year, full-time, 12-month position. The preferred start date is June 10, 2025, but no later than August 10, 2025. The salary is $65,000 per year. The scholar will be based in SPIA at the Virginia Tech Research Center in Arlington, VA.