Universität Hamburg and its partner institutions invite applications for research associate positions
within the Cluster of Excellence "CliCCS"
CLIMATE, CLIMATIC CHANGE, AND SOCIETY (CliCCS) is an ambitious research program at Universität
Hamburg and its partner institutions Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Helmholtz-Center for Material
and Coastal Research, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, and the German Climate Computing
Center as well as Hafen City Universität and Technische Universität Hamburg. Funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG) for a duration of seven years it is part of Germany‘s Excellence Strategy.

The program aims to understand climate changes, taking into account internal variability, extreme events,
and unexpected side effects, addressing the natural and social spheres as well as their interactions. Thus
CliCCS‘ overarching research question is: which climate futures are possible and which are plausible?
CliCCS will investigate how climate changes and how society changes with it, thereby feeding back on
climate. It will identify those climate futures that are consistent with both, climate and social dynamics
(possible), and those we expect to unfold with appreciable probability (plausible). Our program spans the
range from basic research on climate dynamics and climate related social dynamics to the transdisciplinary
exploration of human–environment interactions.
Within the course of the upcoming year total of
18 Postdoc positions
as well as 30 PhD positions will be filled:
Theme A: Sensitivity and Variability in the Climate System
A1: Carbon Dynamics in the Arctic
1 Postdoc, 2 PhDs
A2: Clouds and Tropical Circulation
3 PhDs
A3: Canopies in the Earth System
2 PhDs
A4: African and Asian Monsoon Margins
2 PhDs
A5: The Land-Ocean Transition Zone
2 Postdocs, 3 PhDs
A6: Earth System Variability and Predictability
in a Changing Climate
2 Postdocs, 2 PhDs
Theme B: Climate-Related Dynamics of Social Systems
B1: Social Constructions of Climate Futures
1 Postdoc, 4 PhDs
B2: Dynamics of Climate Governance: Norms,
Contestation, and Policies
1 Postdoc, 3 PhDs
B3: Conflict and Cooperation at the Climate-Security Nexus
1 Postdoc
B4: From Company Responses to Decarbonization of the Economy
1 Postdoc, 1 PhD
B5: Coping with Climate-Related Uncertainties and Variabilities
2 Postdocs, 4 PhDs
Theme C: Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios
C1: Sustainable Adaptation Scenarios for Urban Areas – Water
from Four Sides
1 Postdocs, 3 PhDs
C2: Sustainable Land-Use Scenarios: Soil, Biodiversity, Water,
Food and Energy Security
1 Postdoc, 1 PhD
C3: Sustainable Adaptation for Coastal Systems
2 Postdocs
HPC: High Performance Computing and Data-Intensive Science
3 Postdocs
Participating departments include biology, geosciences, humanities, law, mathematics and informatics,
river and coastal engineering, social economics, social sciences and humanities, urban planning and
regional development.
For further information please visit:
https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/en/career/jobs.html
To register, please contact:
cliccs-jobs.cen@uni-hamburg.de