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Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in / Postdoctoral Researcher (Uni Oldenburg) – Küste im Anthropozän

Das Institut für Chemie und Biologie des Meeres (ICBM) der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin / Postdoctoral Researcher (m/w/d) für die neu eingerichtete Arbeitsgruppe „Küste im Anthropozän“ am Standort Wilhelmshaven. Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen sedimentäre Prozesse und Land-to-Sea-Sedimenttransport, Küstendynamik und Meeresspiegeländerungen, Naturgefahren und Klimafolgen, holozäne und rezente Sedimentarchive sowie den Transport und die Akkumulation sedimentgebundener Schadstoffe. Gesucht werden promovierte Wissenschaftlerinnen aus den Geo-, Umwelt- oder Naturwissenschaften bzw. verwandten Fachgebieten. Die Vollzeitstelle (E13 TV-L) ist als Qualifikationsstelle mit dem…

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Research Associate / PhD Student (f/m/d) | University of Heidelberg

At Heidelberg University, Department of Geography, Physical Geography Division, the following position is to be filled: Research Associate / PhD Student (f/m/d) Pay Group 13 TV-L, 75% The position is limited to 3 years. Desired start date is November 1, 2026. Tasks: Research within the project “Testing the Al-Hajar Refugium Hypothesis (TARGYT) – Karst depressions in the northern Oman Mountains as environmental and archeological archives”, funded under the bilateral WEAVE program by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Czech…

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PhD Position / Prae-Doc (m/f/d) • University of Salzburg

Projekt: Critical Infrastructure Risk from Alpine Geohazards (CRAG) Landslide Hazard Detection through Coupled 3D Stress Modeling and Multiscale Monitoring The Department of Environment and Biodiversity is seeking to fill a PhD position (75% employment, 30 hours/week, duration of 3 years, expected start date: Autumn 2026) within the DSP doctorate school “Dynamic Mountain Environments & SociEty” (DynamitE Vol. 2) for the project CRAG (Critical Infrastructure Risk from Alpine Geohazards). The project links numerical 3D stress modelling with multiscale 􀏐ield monitoring to…

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Doctoral student (f/m/d) in the field of Geomorphology / Geoarchaeology at Uni Gießen

Founded in 1607, Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) is a research university rich in tradition. Inspired by curiosity about the unknown, we enable around 25,000 students and 5,800 employees to advance science for society. Join us in breaking new ground and writing success stories – your own and those of our university. Support us from 01.05.2026 in part-time (75 %) as a Doctoral student (m/f/d) in the field of Geomorphology / Geoarchaeology and Luminescence Dating The position is part of…

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Open PhD Position (75%, 3 years) in Landslide Research

The Geohazards Group at the University of Potsdam is offering a three-year PhD position (TV-L E13, 75% of DFG personnel rate) to carry out research on Large Landslides, Climate Trends, and Anomalies. The candidate will be part of the Geohazards Group, and funded by the forthcoming DFG project LINDA, which explores whether and how large landslides have been responding to contemporary atmospheric warming in terms of their size, frequency, and reporting. The project will make use of landslide catalogues, high-resolution…

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Fixed-term postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bayreuth

The geomorphology research group at the University of Bayreuth is seeking to fill a position as a fixed-term postdoctoral researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit). The position is initially limited to three years, which can be extended by a further three years, and is remunerated according to salary grade A13. Deadline for application is 31 August 2025. Please see the full description of the position here.

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VAO Symposium 2025, 02.-04.04.2025 Kaprun/ Austria

VAO Symposium 2025, 02.-04.04.2025 Kaprun/ Austria Every two years, the VAO Symposium facilitates the exchange of the latest research findings and future collaborative research pursuits in the Alps among members and interested individuals. The symposium emphasizes productive interdisciplinary collaboration among those working in the Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Relief, and Lithosphere fields. For this the symposium focuses more on transdisciplinary workshops than on individual talks and aims to develop future research ideas and projects over two days.     Aim: Transdisciplinary…

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VAO Symposium 2025, 02.-04.04.2025 Kaprun/ Austria

VAO Symposium 2025, 02.-04.04.2025 Kaprun/ Austria Every two years, the VAO Symposium facilitates the exchange of the latest research findings and future collaborative research pursuits in the Alps among members and interested individuals. The symposium emphasizes productive interdisciplinary collaboration among those working in the Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Relief, and Lithosphere fields. For this the symposium focuses more on transdisciplinary workshops than on individual talks and aims to develop future research ideas and projects over two days.     Aim: Transdisciplinary…

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Universität Salzburg – two 3 years PhD positions in Geomorphology (w/m/d)

The positions are funded through the project Climate change impacts on mountain river basins (CLIMB), that aims at understanding the impact of climate warming on the sediment flux from the mountain cryosphere. CLIMB will involve both, field- and laboratory-based work, as well as numerical modelling and GIS-analyses. The two successful candidates will work closely together. One will focus on reach scale, employ a monitoring and mapping approach, and utilise field and lab techniques to characterise and source-trace sediments. The second candidate…

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Research associate (m,f,x), for 3 years, Universität Bochum

A 3-year Research Associate (Postdoc) position is available at the Institute of Geology, Mineralogy, and Geophysics at Ruhr University Bochum. The position is within the new working group ‘Geomorphology and Geohazards’, which focuses on the evolution of Earth’s surface during the Quaternary. The group uses a combination of field, laboratory, and numerical methods to understand the interplay between transport, weathering, and erosion processes, as well as their climatic and tectonic drivers at the Earth’s surface, including human-landscape interactions. The position…

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