PhD position on impacts of climate extremes
Uppsala University, Sweden
Closing date: 16 March 2026
There is an opening for a Ph. D. position in Gabriele Messori’s group at Uppsala University. The preferred start date is September 2026, and the position is for 48 months. Do not hesitate to contact him (gabriele.messori@geo.uu.se) should you have any questions.
Further details and application form here
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The position
This position is within the frame of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project: “Understanding and Predicting Impacts of Climate Extremes under Global Change” (CLIMES DN). You will be part of a leading cohort of early-career researchers studying different aspects of impacts of climate extremes, from public health to societal perspectives and agricultural impacts. This will give you access to a rich programme of training activities and research exchanges. Your work will focus on connecting both existing impact databases and the new databases compiled within the project to climate data, thus enabling studying links between hazards and impacts.
In accordance with MSCA rules, applicants must not have resided and not have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Sweden for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date.
The research group
The research group based at the Dept. of Earth Sciences in Uppsala focuses on the dynamics of extreme climate events in the mid and high latitudes and their impacts. They currently host several nationally funded and H2020/Horizon Europe projects, and lead the activities of the Swedish Centre for Impacts of Climate Extremes. More information on ongoing research can be found at https://gmessori.eu/ and https://climes.se
The department
Uppsala University is a comprehensive, research-intensive university with a strong international standing. The Department of Earth Sciences (https://www.geo.uu.se/) is one of the most complete such academic departments in Europe. The research focuses on subjects that range from the Earth’s core to the atmosphere and human society, on scales from submicroscopic structures in minerals to the formation of mountains and oceans. They have teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels.