Two new full time postdoctoral fellow positions are available from 1 April 2025 or soon after on a fixed term basis for two years within the Global Systems Institute of the University of Exeter. You will join a research team advancing the understanding of forecasting climate tipping points. The team, led by Prof Tim Lenton, has been awarded £5 million by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to investigate early warning signs of climate tipping points. The project – Advancing Tipping Point Early Warning (AdvanTip) – aims to achieve a breakthrough in early warning of tipping points of the Subpolar Gyre by leveraging progress in theory, AI and physical understanding.
- We are seeking candidates with a track record of research in the dynamical systems of nonlinear systems models as well as good coding and mathematical analysis skills. The successful applicant will design, test and evaluate early warning signals for tipping points for systems that are strongly forced and/or have large internal variability. They will collaborate with other members of the AdvanTip team and across the ARIA programme to identify suitable test cases for testing proposed early warning signals. For more details and queries:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD732/postdoctoral-research-fellow
- We are also seeking candidates with a strong foundation in Machine Learning, particularly in Deep Learning (DL) techniques. They will also have knowledge of the climate system and be responsible for running models that simulate Subpolar Gyre dynamics, as well as extracting variables from General Circulation Models, using these outputs to train and test DL models to predict tipping points. They will also be involved in the benchmarking process, assessing the performance of these models when compared to other techniques created elsewhere in the project. For more details and queries:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD734/postdoctoral-research-fellow
These positions have a closing date 23rd March 2025. We plan to soon advertise additional PhD positions that will support this programme.