The main tasks of this position include:
- Producing sound, empirically-based, quantitative analysis to support ex-ante impact assessments for policy initiatives of DG CLIMA and DG REGIO in the context of the EU domestic and international climate agenda;
- Participating to both area-specific (e.g. tourism, labour productivity, floods, wildfires) and multi-hazard climate change impact integrated economic studies;
- Contribute to the development, calibration and validation of modelling tools for assessing the socio-economic impacts of climate change, with a specific focus on long-term economic consequences, regional effects, distributional implications, agents’ heterogeneity and market adjustment dynamics;
- Developing economic models and tools with a robust empirical basis to assess climate-change-induced extreme events and their socio-economic impacts and in view of the design of efficient adaptation strategies;
- Contributing to JRC publications, such as science for policy reports and policy briefs, along with internal and external communication on these;
- Collaborating with other teams on various policy-relevant scientific topics, in the unit, with other JRC and EC units, or with external contractors (for instance climate change impact assessment, linking specialized models);
- Participating actively to the international climate impacts research fora: contribution to research projects, evaluation of research results, drafting of scientific publications
Required qualifications:
- The successful applicant is expected to have an excellent record of research activities including publications in international peer-reviewed journals.