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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Climate Data Science

Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration

The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG) are recruiting two postdoctoral research fellows (PDRFs) in climate data science, as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE. AFRIVERSE aims to build African capacity and digital tools for climate-health impact attribution.

The PDRFs will be responsible for the development of a suite of climate data products for use in climate change attribution in Africa and for working with other project members to apply these data to health impact attribution case studies. Additionally, the PDRFs will undertake and publish independent extreme weather event attribution studies using the data they have generated.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Climate-Health Impacts Attribution

Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration

The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) and ASCEND are recruiting three postdoctoral research fellows (PDRFs) in climate change and health data analysis, as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE. AFRIVERSE aims to build capacity and digital tools for climate-health impacts attribution in Africa, and to use these tools to undertake targeted climate-health attribution studies.

Each PDRF will work with a team of African and other international scientists to develop climate health epidemiological models, which will be used to detect and attribute climate-associated influences on human health outcomes. The PDRFs will work closely with both climate and health scientists in AFRIVERSE to undertake the climate-health attribution analyses.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Climate Change Attribution Communication

Application deadline: applications received by 10 March 2025 are guaranteed consideration

The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow (PDRF) in climate change communication, with a specific focus on impacts attribution. The PDRF will be a member of a Wellcome Trust funded research project AFRIVERSE, which aims to build African capacity and digital tools for attribution of health impacts to climate change and will use these tools to undertake a range of climate-health impact attribution studies.

The attribution communication PDRF will undertake research on impactful communication approaches for climate impacts and attribution studies. They will work closely with associated communications and knowledge translation experts based at ASCEND (UCT’s African Synthesis Centre for Climate Change, Environment and Development) and CDKN (Climate and Development Knowledge Network) in developing their research in ways that supports and addresses practical questions on real-world climate change communications needs.

For more information about ACDI and UCT please visit www.acdi.uct.ac.za and www.uct.ac.za.