Horizon 2020 postdoctoral opportunity

University of Exeter, UK
Closing date: 29 April 2026

The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join Past to Future, Toward Fully Paleo-Informed Future Climate Projections, an ambitious Horizon Europe-funded project addressing one of the central challenges in climate science: how insights from Earth’s past climate can inform future climate projections.

This position is available immediately.

The successful applicant will use both conceptual and state-of-the-art global models to explore the sensitivity of the climate system to uncertainty in key, but poorly understood, physical processes. At Exeter, the work will focus on understanding how processes such as clouds and convection, ocean heat transport, and continental configuration influence climate sensitivity, and on assessing the extent to which the past can serve as an analogue for future change.

The project forms part of a large international collaboration involving leading institutions across the UK including the Met Office, also based in Exeter, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and beyond, offering extensive opportunities for collaboration. There is substantial scope for the research fellow to shape the direction of the work and to develop their own ideas within the project framework. The successful candidate will be based in Exeter and work closely with Professor Hugo Lambert and Professor Geoffrey Vallis, while interacting regularly with researchers across the wider Past‑to‑Future consortium.

Further information

Share