Cryosphere and Climate Change Research Group, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

This fully funded PhD project is part of the QUARTILES Doctoral Landscape Award, a BBSRC and NERC-funded research and training programme designed to equip PhD students with the skills, expertise, outlook, and real-world experience needed to become the next generation of scientific leaders capable of addressing pressing environmental grand challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainability.

Application deadline is Wednesday, 14 January 2026.

FiRES, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

A postdoctoral research position is available to a highly motivated social scientist. The successful candidate will contribute to a third-party funded project - FiRES, which seeks to enhance community wildfire resilience in Europe. FiRES is hosted by the Center for Security Studies (CSS) in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences (D-GESS) at ETH Zürich.

The application deadline is 29 January 2026.

Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards.

Its Research Unit Economics and Social Sciences addresses social science research topics related to WSL’s research areas. For its new research group, it is seeking for 1 July 2025 (or by agreement) a Group Leader Social-Ecological Transformation 80% (f/m/d). In this role, you will set up the new research group ‘Social-Ecological Transformation’ and manage it scientifically and administratively. You will also conduct research on social-ecological transformation in relation to WSL core topics and key topics of the WSL Strategy 2035.