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Au sein de la Faculté des sciences (SC) et de l'Earth and Life Institute (ELI), Secteur des sciences et technologies, cette fonction comprend des activités d’enseignement, de recherche et de services à la communauté.

Required qualifications and skills

- Titulaire d’un doctorat en sciences géographiques ou dans un domaine similaire;

- Pratique avérée en enseignement universitaire;

- Expérience scientifique démontrée par des publications de niveau international;

- Séjour prolongé ou expérience significative à l’étranger, effectuée hors de l’institution qui a délivré votre doctorat;

- Maîtrise du français et de l'anglais (ou vous vous engagez à acquérir la maîtrise de ces deux langues dans un délai de deux ans après la prise de fonction).

Starting date: 01/09/2027

Apply before: 05/11/2026

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Fixed-term contract: 18 months

The transnational MUDCAP project (“Muddy flood mitigation through transnational action-oriented capacity building”) aims to strengthen prevention and resilience against muddy floods in vulnerable areas of northwestern Europe.

As part of this project, the successful candidate will be tasked with developing decision support tools at the regional and local levels to assess the risk of public or private infrastructure being exposed to muddy floods. 

The approach will include the analysis of geospatial databases (e.g., soil, land use), earth observation data (e.g. Sentinel 2) and the use of machine learning tools.

Required qualifications and skills

- A university graduate (Master’s degree in Bioscience engineering in environmental or agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Engineer, or equivalent);

- Dynamic, with a proven aptitude for research (as demonstrated in, e.g., a Master’s thesis);

- Skills in the fields of hydrology, water and soil conservation, geographic information systems, and remote sensing;

- Skills in data analysis (ideally including geospatial data) and programming (R, Python, etc.); 

- Oral and written communication skills in English;

- Interpersonal skills, ability to work in a team, and initiative.

Starting date: October 2026

Apply before: 15/09/2026

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Fixed-term, full-time (100%), 2 years contract.

Antarctic sea ice extent has shown major changes over the past decades, with a slight increase between 1979 and 2015 followed by an abrupt decrease and low values since then. However, the contribution of the multidecadal variability in the Southern Ocean to these recent changes is still unknow. To reduce the uncertainty on this contribution, the goal of the project, funded by Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), is to reconstruct the evolution of the sea ice extent over the past 200 years and to identify the mechanisms responsible for this variability. 

Job description

- Evaluate existing sea ice reconstructions using different datasets, including historical records coming from different sources.

- Perform a new large-scale reconstruction of the state of the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice over the past 200 years combining long instrumental data and paleoclimate proxy records.

- Estimate the origin of the differences between existing reconstructions due to methodology and the choice of the observations.

- Describe the mechanisms at the origin of the most robust characteristics of the reconstructions. 

Required qualifications and skills

- To have a PhD in climatology, oceanography or related field; 
- To have experience in numerical modelling, climate reconstructions or data analysis; 
- To have published in peer-reviewed international journals;
- To have demonstrated good verbal and written communication skills in English;
- To have interest in working in a multidisciplinary, international team environment.
- Experience in sea ice or polar climate is an asset.

Starting date: December 2026

Apply before: 14/09/2026

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