Mountain Hydrology Research Group, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA.

The Mountain Hydrology Research Group at the University of Wyoming is hiring one PhD student to start in autumn 2027 for an NSF funded project. The successful applicant will be a research assistant (RA) on the topic of melt dynamics in mountain snowpacks. The research will build upon previous research of liquid water flow through snow and hillslope runoff processes with a focus on modeling hillslope scale infiltration and runoff processes, though the project allows for a field work and/or remote sensing component depending on the student's interests.

Application deadline 16 November 2026.

NCCR CLIM+ Management Center, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Applications are invited for an interdisciplinary coordination position on climate adaptation to extreme events under the supervision of Prof. Sonia I. Seneviratne and Prof. David Bresch (ETH Zurich). The position will be part of the NCCR CLIM+ programme and the NCCR CLIM+ Management Center at ETH Zurich.

Interviews will take place in September 2026..

ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal.

The Senior Specialist acts as a thought leader in digital information services and technologies, contributing to the team and collaborating closely across ICIMOD and with its partners. This position supervises and manages the RIS team, ensuring successful delivery aligned with organisational standards, and coordinates with other teams across the organisation. The Senior Specialist is accountable for the overall quality and timely execution of RIS, ensuring that all components are well-integrated, aligned, and mutually reinforcing. The role also includes risk management, clear communication, and coordination across ICIMOD to ensure all personnel involved understand their roles and contribute effectively as a team.

Application deadline 4 October 2026.

Political Geography Group at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

The PhD position is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project, 'Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands', which runs for four years. The position includes an SNSF-standard salary and entitlements to research funds for fieldwork in East Africa. The PhD position requires the candidate to write their dissertation on this theme, with a specific fieldwork focus on pastoralist territories in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. The project aims to understand the longue durée of pastoralist land transformation at the intersection of climate change, state intervention, and capitalist practices. It interrogates land-use and land-cover change across time and space, changes in property regimes, pastoralist populations' agency in navigating internally and externally driven changes, and practices of future-making.

Application deadline is 30 September 2026.

NCCR CLIM+, ETH Zurich and University of Bern, Switzerland.

This PhD project is part of Workpackage 3 of NCCR CLIM+, which concentrates on questions of governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes (such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and heavy precipitation amongst others). The successful candidate will complete a PhD thesis at the interface of law and political science. Specifically, the thesis will investigate under what conditions law and politics recognize and define an event as 'extreme' and what this means for resulting goveranance responses and questions of justice.

Review of the applications will start mid-October.

Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (FHSE) at the University of Luxembourg, Kirchberg, Luxembourg.

The Faculty of Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences (FHSE) is seeking to appoint a fully funded doctoral researcher to join the project ECOJUST – Ecologically Just Climate Resilient Development. The project investigates how citizen science and participatory research can support climate-resilient development and ecological justice in urban environments. Particular attention is given to understanding relationships between ecological health, human wellbeing and climate vulnerability, especially during extreme weather events such as urban heat, drought or heavy rainfall.

The doctoral project will explore how ecological and human vulnerabilities/capacities can be assessed and represented in ways that support more equitable and regenerative approaches to climate adaptation. The research will investigate relationships between environmental conditions, ecological functioning and human wellbeing.