Applied Economist for Climate Risk Analysis

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:

• Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years professional experience after university studies of at least 3 years attested by a diploma, or a PhD;
• Candidates should have experience and demonstrated training in the methods of applied economics, econometrics, economic growth and development, preferably in the context of climate change. Familiarity with the application of spatial econometric techniques and spatial economic models and data analysis will be highly valued;
• Candidates should have ease in manipulating quantitative information and datasets. Knowledge of programming software and languages (such as R, Python, Matlab or Stata) is an important asset and will be highly valued.
• The successful applicant is expected to have an excellent record of research activities including publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
• The candidate must be on a valid EPSO reserve list for Function Group IV contract staff. If you are not in any valid EPSO reserve list for Function Group IV contract staff, you can still apply by applying to the CAST Permanent or to the permanent JRC Call for researchers.

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