Research Scientist Position in Climate Science
CECI/Cerfacs, Toulouse, France
Closing date: 31 January 2026
The main role will be to lead and conduct world-leading research in climate science, mainly related to global climate modeling. These can include, among others, the following challenges: characterizing and understanding large-scale climate variability using climate models and observations, developing innovative approaches for developing and evaluating Earth system models, reducing uncertainties in global climate projections, improving climate predictions on interannual to decadal time scales, assessing the impacts of climate change on high-impact climate events and hazards.
About the host laboratory: The CECI research unit is a joint laboratory between the European Center for Advanced Training and Scientific Computing (Cerfacs), the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD).
About the team: The GlobC Team is currently comprised of 12 researchers, 23 early career researchers, and 6 highly-skilled research engineers with strong expertise on climate and environmental models, high-performance computing (HPC), simulation workflows and data management.