Vacancies

Post-Doctoral Fellowship to link financial investments to sources of aerosols in South Asia

The postdoc would form part of a transdisciplinary team of researchers aiming to link state-of-the-art models of aerosol emission sources with a novel methodology to identify key financial mechanisms and actors underpinning activities driving the ‘Atmospheric Brown Cloud’ (ABC). The position starts Dec 2019-Jan 2020. The research is funded by Formas (the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development), under the project: Financial Dimensions of a key climate system “Wild Card”: The Atmospheric Brown Cloud over South Asia, and is a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), both at Stockholm University, as well as The Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Program (GEDB), and University of Groningen (Netherlands).

The postdoc would be employed at Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Program (GEDB), which is a research programme at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more and apply here

Traineeship/internships

Current traineeship/interships positions are announced below. If you would like to do a traineeship but there are no announcements, please contact the person(s) that you are interested in working with directly.

We recommend you provide the following information:

- What topics and activities you are interested in

- What relevant skills and/ or experience you have

- What time period you would like to do your traineeship

- CV - not needed, but it allows a potential supervisor to see your skills and experience and how these can contribute to ongoing activities.

Science news writer internship

We are seeking an intern who wants to write news articles about resilience research and sustainability for the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC). The internship will be based at our office in Stockholm and will last between three to six months. Applicants should send an original unpublished news article of up to 500 words based on any chosen study published by the SRC along with a CV and a cover letter to info@stockholmresilience.su.se. Please include reference to the chosen study. The news article should follow a format that makes it suitable to publish on our website. We are looking for fluent English combined with wit, crisp writing and clarity of thought. Please mark the the email with 'Science writer internship'. Questions can be sent to the same email address above.