The Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a duration of 2 years to develop a research project related to the Societal Challenge OCEANS. The aim of the challenge is to anticipate the impacts of global change on oceanic and coastal systems and develop pathways towards sustainable and equitable interactions with marine environments and their resources. The postdoctoral researcher will work in collaboration with the senior members of the research teams involved in the challenge (Patrizia Ziveri, Andre Colonese, Graham Mortyn, Antoni Rosell and Jordi Garcia Orellana). Theme leaders welcome particularly researchers who can bring together and forge connections between existing research lines and the work of the above-mentioned faculty members.
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The research project to be developed by the postdoctoral researcher should address one or more of the following themes:
Determine the different temporal scales of climate change impacts, including orbital timescales, and Earth system feedback mechanisms in relation to anthropogenic environmental changes;
Reconstruct the nature and scale of human-environmental interactions on local and regional scales in tropical and subtropical coastal regions;
Construct a global understanding of the key land-ocean interaction processes, and assess what natural or anthropogenic mechanisms are more significant in the offshore export of materials (e.g., carbon, mineral nutrients and trace metals) or contaminants (e.g., microplastics, hydrocarbons, heavy metals);
Create new knowledge on the regional risks related to climatic and other local stressors of environmental change on coastal systems, with particular emphasis on coastal communities and socially vulnerable groups.
The postdoctoral researcher is also expected to contribute to the intellectual life at ICTA (giving seminars or lectures in master classes, participating in the activities of the unit of excellence, etc.).
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