PostDoc Position: Backcasting and Climate Services for Climate-Resilient Development

Klima Ostfriesland

📍 santarém, santarém, Brazil

Full-time Other-General Posted June 17, 2026

Job Description

PostDoc Position: Backcasting and Climate Services for Climate-Resilient Development The Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), a scientific organizational entity of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, invites applications for a PostDoc Position, starting as soon as possible. This 2-year position focuses on (1) co-developing and co-testing of backcasting tools with local communities in Amazonian and Landkreis Harburg regions with the aim to co-define desirable climate-resilient futures and (2) on evaluation and monitoring of digital climate service tools. The place of employment is Hamburg. GERICS develops science-based prototype products and services in support to local government, administration and grassroots movements in their efforts to adapt to climate change. It builds up a national and international network structure in order to integrate existing competences and knowledge, and to link various actors within the complex area of climate change. The successful candidate will be workin...