Research Fellow in Modelling Quaternary Ice-sheet Evolution

Location: Leeds - Main Campus

Contract type: Fixed term (for 18 months)

This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing flexible working arrangements.

Are you an ambitious glaciologist or climatologist looking for your next challenge? Do you want to work with world leaders in ice sheet and climate science to advance our understanding of ice sheets? Do you want to further your career in one of the UK’s leading research-intensive Universities? The University of Leeds is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to model and reconstruct the collapse of the Cordilleran ice sheet during the last deglaciation.

In this role, you will work with Dr Lauren Gregoire (University of Leeds) and Dr Christopher Darvill (University of Manchester) and an team of scientists from the UK, USA and Canada to produce the first 3-D reconstruction of the collapse of the former Cordilleran Ice Sheet in western North America during the last deglaciation (21,000-7,000 years ago). The project will use a paired data-modelling approach. Your role will be to run and analyse ensembles of BISICLES ice sheet simulations run interactively within a climate model and standalone. Simulations will be conducted alongside a separate package of field-based empirical data collection, with the expectation that the two work packages inform one another to create robust reconstructions of Cordilleran Ice Sheet change. This will provide key information to understand past abrupt climate and sea level and test ice sheet models used for future projections. You will collaborate closely with project team members Dr Christopher Darvill (The University of Manchester), Dr Jeremy Shakun (Boston College, USA), Dr Shaun Marcott (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Dr Brian Menounos (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada), Dr Alberto Reyes (University of Alberta, Canada), as well as two PhD students (USA), one Masters student (Canada) and two undergraduate interns (Canada). To improve collaboration and understanding between empirical and modelling teams, there may be opportunities for you to join fieldwork in Canada.

You will have, or be close to obtaining, a PhD in Glaciology or palaeoclimate and have extensive experience of using models and observations to study climate and/or ice sheet evolution. Applications for part-time work (e.g. 80% FTE), job-share or other flexible working arrangements are encouraged.

Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

For research and academic posts, we will consider eligibility under the Global Talent visa. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/global-talent

What we offer in return

• 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
• Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary.
• Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
• Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
• Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.

And much more!

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Ruza Ivanovic

Email: r.ivanovic@leeds.ac.uk

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