PhD Position Vacancy
The University of Hamburg jointly with the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and the Institute for Coastal Research at the GKSS Research Centre is establishing a trans-disciplinary research focus on “Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction, CliSAP”. The goal is to analyze ongoing and past changes of the state of the climate system, in response to natural and human-driven perturbations, to determine predictable elements of the climate system over a broad range of space and time scales, and to determine uncertainties intrinsic to predictions of important climate system and environmental indices (see www.clisap.de).
The Cluster of Excellence (CliSAP) invites applicants for the following sub-project:
“From Famine to Genocide. Climate and Violence in Northern and Central Africa, 1950-2010”
The project examines the link between environmental change and collective violence in Northern and Central Africa, 1950-2010. Its aim is to examine climate (including climate change, environmental degradation and change in land use patterns and economic production) and its influence on the likelihood of the occurrence of collective violence (including ethnic cleansing and genocide).
For this project, the university has a 65% FTE (25 hours/week) position open for a
research associate (wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in)
- salary group 13 TV-L - with a starting date of 01.02.2011.
The short-term contract will end after 3 years, in accordance with §§ 27, 28 Hamburg Higher Education Law (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz); see also § 2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz).
The university intends to increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and expressly encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal Opportunity Law, preference will be given to qualified female applicants.
General Responsibilities:
A research associate will contribute to the project “From Famine to Genocide. Climate and Violence in Northern and Central Africa, 1950-2010”. Within this framework associates will further their academic education, in particular through the completion of a doctoral dissertation. The data obtained in the project may be used for the dissertation. PhD students will participate in CliSAP’s “School of Integrated Climate System Science (SICSS)”.
Requirements:
A research project related to the environmental history of Central and/or Northern Africa and/or the history of collective violence. Willingness to study and research environmental change from both a humanities and science perspective.
Academic degree in an academic subject area qualifying the holder to carry out the above-mentioned responsibilities.
For an informal discussion of your application please send an email to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer: juergen.zimmerer@uni-hamburg.de.
Applications (including information about the received degree and the current CV) and an outline of the research project should be sent to:
Universität Hamburg
KlimaCampus
CliSAP Office
Code/Reference Number PhD/JZ
Grindelberg 5
20144 Hamburg
or to
office.clisap@zmaw.de
The deadline for receipt of applications December 31st, 2010 . For more information please see our website at www.klimacampus.de
Preference will be given to disabled applicants with equal qualifications.