Climate-economy Modelers – Scientist/Senior Scientist at CMCC, Italy

The CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) is looking for bright researchers motivated to work on the defining issue of climate change and environmental protection.

For these positions, we are encouraging applications by scientists or senior scientist climate-economic modelers to join our modeling teams in Milan or Venice. The candidates will join an international and interdisciplinary team to contribute to developing our suite of integrated assessment models, which include detailed-process climate-energy-economy models, energy system models, and macro-economic models.

ROLE
The successful applicants will be responsible for contributing and developing coupled climate-economy models, e.g. integrated assessment models such as WITCH, or computable general equilibrium models such as ICES.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Specific tasks include but are not limited to:

• Integration of climate change adaptation and impacts into climate-economy models at the regional and national levels.Developing methods to represent biodiversity and ecosystems in integrated assessment models.Capturing the resources and material requirements of the low-carbon transition.Contribution to developing the open-source integrated assessment models WITCH, RICE50+ and FIDELIO.Contribution to developing the CGE model ICES.Support the coordination of the modeling activitiesSupervise young researchers in climate-economy modeling
• Write and contribute to scientific articles and science-policy reports derived from the above work, and present those at scientific workshops and conferences.

REQUIREMENTS
We are looking for two or more motivated persons with the following requirements:

• Modeling experience of at least 5 years using modeling language (GAMS, Julia, JUMP) and fluency in programming languages such as Python or R.
• PhD in economics, applied mathematics, engineering, physics, or any related fields to integrated assessment models and coupled climate-economy modeling.
• Fluency in English (Italian not needed), good presentation and writing skills.
• Willingness to travel to project meetings and to conferences.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary and diverse environment committed to high-quality research.

Application deadline: 15 July 2024
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