Postdoctoral Position as an Earth Resilience Analyst (m/f/d)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany
Closing date: 20 July 2025
PIK is offering a Postdoctoral Position as an Earth Resilience Analyst (m/f/d) for the Earth Resilience Science Unit, starting on 01.09.2025. The position is funded until June 2027.
PIK is looking for an enthusiastic Earth system modeler with a PhD in the fields of Earth system science, physics, climate physics, geosciences, mathematics, computer science or comparable fields. The Earth Resilience Science Unit serves as a bridge group between PIK and the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), and aims to develop a framework to characterize the resilience of the Earth System in the Anthropocene, exploring stability landscapes of the whole planetary system and its critical geophysical, ecological and societal components, which are only fragmentarily known so far. This includes the identification of critical conditions and tipping points for these subsystems, their capacity to resist to and recover from disruptions, as well as the risk of cascading interactions between them.