Jr Research Associate | Job position at CMCC Foundation, Italy
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The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
Our Division of Ocean Predictions and Applications (OPA), located in Civitavecchia, with the possibility to work at the Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology in Civitavecchia, is looking for a new position of Jr Research Associate, to support programming and basic electronics design for oceanographic instrumentation application.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor degree in Physics
- Accuracy and good analytical skills
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Knowledge in programming
- Base knowledge of electronics
- Good communication skills
- High motivation to learn
- Max 28 years old
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 6 months starting from September 2023, renewable for 12 months additional months pending a positive evaluation.
- The gross annual salary range is from 18.000 to 24.000 Euros, depending on qualification and working experience.
- Welfare package (for minimum 12 months contract)
- Flexible working time
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
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Fondazione CMCC
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce
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ABOUT US
The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Regional Models and geo-hydrological impacts (REMHI), located in Caserta, is looking for a new position of Hydraulic/hydrological modelling expert, responsible for supporting the division team in exploiting consultance service for private company interested on working on asset resilience, develop innovative research activities, participating to research projects and delivering research papers for peer-reviewed international journals, take part to national and international workshop presenting results activities.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in Civil or Environmental Engineering;
- PhD (or equivalent experience) in Hydraulic or Environmental Engineering with focus on catchment hydrology, groundwater and/or urban drainage;
- Solid knowledge of Flood and Flood Hazard modelling in urban and natural catchments;
- Statistics of extremes and Extreme Value Analysis, Groundwater modelling (one or several);
- Experience with MATLAB, ArcGIS, R (one or several).
- Familiarity with the most common rainfall-runoff modelling tools (e.g. HEC-HMS, SWMM or others) is particularly appreciated;
- Experience in writing research papers for peer-reviewed journals (first author position is particularly appreciated);
- Ability to work both independently with minimal supervision and in team;
- Fluency in English.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Knowledge of SAP software
- Good communication skills
- Strong problem-solving attitude
- High motivation to learn
- Good in time and priority management
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 18 months starting from October 1st 2023, renewable for more additional months pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a junior researcher
- The gross annual salary range is from 28 to 35 K Euros, depending on qualification and working experience.
- Private health care coverage
- Welfare package
- Possibility to access flexible working time as per internal policies
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
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The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, the society, the world of business and policy makers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
Our Division of Risk Assessment and Adaptation Strategies Division (RAAS) is looking for a new position of Post-doc researcher, responsible for supporting the development of advanced multi-hazard risk assessment methodologies for the assessment of climate change risks on water resources in the Adige river basin.
The job location is CMCC Headquarters in Venice, Italy.
We are looking for a motivated person with the following requirements:
- PhD in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Hydrology or related fields (with preferred specialization in modeling the impact of climate change on water quality at the river basin scale);
- Documented experience in the application of numerical models (e.g. SWAT) or complex system analysis tools and methods (e.g. Machine Learning, Bayesian Networks, Random Forest) to design and implement risk and impact assessments on freshwater resources
- Knowledge of (geo)statistics, geospatial data processing software and tools, including GIS, Python, R;
- An excellent knowledge of English language;
- Good communication skills and team working attitude.
Preferred qualification:
- Experience in the application of models or methods for climate change risk and impact assessment in complex environmental systems;
- Experience in grant proposal preparation at National and/or European level;
- Experience in coaching junior scientists.
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition
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ABOUT US
The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Regional Models and geo-hydrological impacts (REMHI), located in Caserta, is looking for a new position of Climate & weather model research assistant for supporting the REMHI Division research activities in the field of climate simulations and in the framework of the different national and international activities currently on going.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s degree in Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (or equivalent);
- Good knowledge of the English language;
- Knowledge of the main numerical algorithms for solving: Linear Systems of Equations, Systems of Nonlinear Equations, Ordinary Differential Equations;
- Knowledge of common operating systems (as Windows, MacOS);
- Knowledge and capability to use the Main Mathematical Libraries;
- knowledge of FORTRAN and other programming languages as MATLAB, Python;
- Knowledge of Linux operating system;
- Knowledge of SAP data base;
- Knowledge of climate data management program (as CDO, NCO);
- Capability to prepare technical / scientific documentation, also in the context of projects
- Availability to travel (limited period);
- Availability to take part in face-to-face meetings at the REMHI headquarters in Caserta;
- Enthusiasm for the research and the work within young and multidisciplinary team.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Good communication skills;
- Problem-solving attitude;
- High motivation to learn;
- Good in time and priority management;
- Keeping deadlines.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 12 months starting from October 15th 2023, renewable for more additional months pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a junior researcher;
- The gross annual salary range is from 17 to 24 K Euros, depending on qualification and working experience;
- Private health care coverage;
- Welfare package;
- Possibility to access flexible working time as per internal policies;
- Support during the immigration process, if needed.
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
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The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Ocean Prediction and Application (OPA), located in Lecce, is looking for a new position of researcher with experience as numerical modeler, to support the research and the ocean modeling activities.
This position is for a Numerical Modeller (i.e., Post Doc, or Junior Scientist for research career at CMCC) with good knowledge of physical oceanography, numerical models and programming skills.
The activities will be focused on coastal processes at land-sea interface. The duties will also include processing and interpreting simulation-based and observational data sets.
The primary purpose for this position is to take on a pivotal role in implementing, testing and further developing high resolution ocean models in coastal areas selected within the framework of the supporting project and other collaborations, with a focus on integrating the ocean and the hydrological modelling components. A gained experience with unstructured grid models for the ocean (e.g. SHYFEM, FESOM, FVCOM, SCHISM among the others) or at least with finite difference models (e.g. NEMO, ROMS, ICON among the others) are required.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- PhD in Physical Oceanography, Engineering and the other scientific disciplines dealing with numerical modelling e.g Physics, Mathematics, Environmental Science;
- experience in numerical modeling development;
- good knowledge and skills in programming language (i.e Python, Fortran, matlab, R);
- knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systems and script languages (i.e. *nix shell);
- knowledge of parallel programming on HPC architectures;
- fluency in English.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Good communication skills and teamworking attitude;
- Advanced knowledge of unstructured numerical models;
- An excellent knowledge of English language;
- Experience in writing of peer-reviewed publications.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 24 months starting from October 2023, renewable for additional months pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a Researcher
- The gross annual salary range is from 28 to 38 k€ for Post Doc and 36 to 48 k€ for Junior Scientist, depending on qualification and working experience.
- Welfare package
- Flexible working time
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
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The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
Our Division of Ocean Predictions and Applications (OPA), located in Lecce, is looking for a new position of Junior Scientific Manager, responsible for International Relations.
CMCC operational oceanography team is at the fore-front among international programmes on developing, maintaining and delivering short-term forecasting systems from global, regional to coastal scales (https://www.cmcc.it/data-services-and-products/forecasting-systems). Our team contributes to major ocean initiatives such as the Copernicus Marine Service (http://marine.copernicus.eu) and OceanPredict (https://oceanpredict.org). CMCC acts as Secretariat of UN Ocean Decade Programs such as CoastPredict, which will be the main focus of this position.
The International Relations Manager is expected to work on:
- supporting OPA Division in the coordination of international projects and initiatives, by managing communication, implementing projects, participating to meetings, proposing new actions;
- providing coordination between international partners and technical support to ensure the development of international initiatives and connections across the projects developed within Programme frameworks;
- following the international debates and fora related to marine environment and climate change;
- organizing scientific and policy meetings;
- preparing new projects proposals;
- drafting presentations and documents for project monitoring;
- preparing and delivering reports, publications, and communications content and materials.
Specific tasks include immediate involvement in the international activities of:
- CoastPredict UN Ocean Decade endorsed Programme and in particular the CMCC-led Focus Area 1 Integrated observing and modelling for short term coastal forecasting and early warning and CMCC-led Predict-On-Time project. This will involve working as part of the Secretariat for these initiatives with specific responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Ensure an effective communication flow to and between the partners and stakeholder
- Support the governance bodies and steering structure
- Communications, including announcements, preparation of informational materials and website content and updates
- Organize conferences and events
- Support the effective development of all activities defined by the governance bodies
- Act as point of contact
- Mercator Ocean International (https://www.mercator-ocean.eu/en/about-mercator-ocean-international/) regarding the EU Copernicus Marine Service;
- EuroGOOS, the European Global Ocean Observing System (https://eurogoos.eu/)
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Master Degree or equivalent in Engineering (Management, Environmental, Coastal, etc), Environmental Science, Physical Oceanography or other marine or scientific disciplines
- Very good networking and collaborative skills in an international environment
- Good knowledge and skills in project management and partner relationship management
- Fluency in English; fluency in other languages is positively evaluated.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Very good command of the Office suite and Google Docs Editors suite
- Communications and fundraising skills/experience
- Excellent organisational skills and high attention to details
- Collaborative teamworking attitude and ability to work independently.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of n° 24 months starting from October 2023
- The gross annual salary range is from 28 to 36K Euros (plus benefits), depending on qualification and working experience.
- Flexible working time
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
Fondazione CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici Via Marco Biagi, 5 - 73100 Lecce
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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Regional Models and geo-Hydrological Impacts Division (REMHI), located in Caserta, is looking for a new position of expert on data analysis, responsible for support the REMHI division in the activity related to the satellite data analysis.
The job location is CMCC REMHI in Caserta
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in Meteorology and Physics of the Atmosphere or Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent field.
- experience in pre and post-processing of huge weather data-sets
- expert in analysing weather data with the most common software environment for statistical computing and graphics (e.g. R CRAN, MatLab, Python)
- expert in management of different data format such as netCDF (network Common Data Form), Hierarchical Data Format (HDF), Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR), standard binary format for exchanging gridded data (GRIB)
- Experience with software for processing, visualization and analysis of weather/climate data (e.g. wgrib, wgrib2, ilwis, QGIS, CDO)
- knowledge of most common S.O. such as Linux, Unix, Dos;
- Knowledge of SQL language for the management of data in relational databases and the HTML language
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team.
- Proficient verbal and written communication in English.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Familiarity with Python libraries for scientific data analysis (e.g. xarray, numpy, pandas, netCDF4, scipy …)
- Proved capability to develop operational web-tools for analysis and visualization of meteo-climate data
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of n° 12 starting from 25/11/2023, renewable for additional months pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a junior researcher;
- The gross annual salary range is from 17 to 26K Euros, depending on qualification and working experience. OR The gross annual salary will be based on qualification and working experience;
- Welfare package (for min 12 months contract);
- Flexible working time;
- Support during the immigration process, if needed.
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
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ABOUT US
The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research centre on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment, and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Ocean Predictions and Applications (OPA), located in Lecce, is looking for a new position of PostDoc or Junior Scientist, responsible for the development and use of the ship weather routing VISIR model, use of meteo-oceanographic information, contributions in the frame of the Horizon Europe project EDITOModelLab and the UN ocean decade programme CoastPredict, use of climate data and AI technologies for coastal applications, preparation of scientific manuscripts and competitive project proposals.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Ph.D. in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science or Engineering (if J.Scientist: also two years relevant working experience after the Ph.D.);
- Both theoretical and practical knowledge of the Python programming language;
- At least one recommendation letter (if J.Scientist: at least two letters);
- Proficient verbal and written communication skills in English;
- Positive interpersonal and collaborative capacity.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systems and script languages;
- Knowledge of at least one versioning system;
- Notions of operation research and optimization;
- Working experience with data of maritime transport;
- Hands-on experience with artificial neural networks;
- Experience with HPC systems;
- Manipulation of NetCDF data;
- Additional programming languages.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 12 months starting from February 2024, renewable for 12 months additional months, pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a Junior Scientist
- The gross annual salary range is from 30 to 38K Euros for the PostDoc and 35 to 45K for the Junior Scientist, depending on qualification and working experience.
- Welfare package
- Flexible working time
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
Fondazione CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici Via Marco Biagi, 5 - 73100 Lecce
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ABOUT US
The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers.
Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our Division of Climate Simulation and Prediction (CSP), located in Bologna, is looking for a new position of Scientist, to perform development, implementation and assessment of the CMCC global ocean analysis and forecast system at eddy-rich resolution, GOFS16. More specifically, the candidate will contribute to:
- improve and maintain the global ocean/sea ice forecasting system;
- monitor and assess the analysis and forecast skills using traditional and advanced methods;
- disseminate the work in peer-reviewed publications and international conferences.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience and knowledge in physical oceanography or a related quantitative scientific discipline at graduate or equivalent level, plus experience equivalent to several years working at post-graduate level;
- skills in scientific computing and parallel programming on supercomputers;
- strong scientific computing skills (e.g. in Python) with experience of writing and modifying code to produce high-quality analyses;
- fluency in spoken and written English.
The following experiences are highly desirable:
- ocean modeling and data assimilation;
- operational forecasting systems, from input data control to evaluation of product quality;
- management of high volumes of data from heterogeneous sources;
- knowledge of version control system (git) and data operators (such as NCO, CDO);
- good communication skills and ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of scientists and software engineers.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially of 24 months starting as soon as possible. Tenure can be granted from 2 to 4 years after being appointed as a researcher
- The gross annual salary range is from 35 to 50K Euros, depending on qualification and working experience.
- Welfare package
- Flexible working time
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
WE ARE CMCC:
- An international foundation active on current issues;
- To get in touch with a participative and motivated team, always ready for dialogue and confrontation;
- A meritocratic structure, open to the new and different;
- Being embedded in a career path based on performance and achieved results;
- Flat hierarchy with gender equality sensibility;
- Continuous training, access to lab facilities, state-of-the-art infrastructure, and polyvalent working spaces, participation in scientific events and R&D projects, and complementary skills development.
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.
Fondazione CMCC Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici Via Marco Biagi, 5 - 73100 Lecce
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- M.Sc. degree (or equivalent working experience) in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics or other scientific disciplines
- good knowledge and skills in programming (i.e., Python and bash scripting)
- good knowledge of Python and libraries like Xarray, as well as Machine Learning.
- experience in managing/manipulating NetCDF data
- knowledge of UNIX/Linux operating systems and script languages (i.e., *nix shell)
- fluency in English
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- knowledge of version control systems (i.e., git)
- Willingness to work in diverse and interdisciplinary teams;
- Flexibility and adaptability to work on diverse projects and respond to emerging challenges in the topic;
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- The appointment period will be initially 24 months, renewable for two additional years pending a positive evaluation. Tenure can be granted from 3 to 4 years after being appointed
- The gross annual salary range is from 28 to 36 k€ for Junior Research Associate and 36 to 48 k€ for Senior Research Associate, depending on qualification and working experience and competitive with major research centres in Europe.
- Welfare package
- Flexible working time
- Support during the immigration process, if needed
Belonging to legally protected categories (ex L. 68/99) will constitute a preferential condition.