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Job Opportunity: Research Scientist (ACACIA and POWER)

Location: School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences, University of Reading
Salary: £34,980 – £44,263 per annum
Contract length: Fixed term for 3 years
Contract type: Full time
Closing date: Wednesday 30 April 2025
Interview date: Monday 12 May 2025

We are seeking a motivated research scientist to work across two projects to advance our understanding of sub-seasonal drivers of predictability and how they can be used to co-develop reliable, actionable tools that inform Disaster Risk Reduction (ACACIA*) and Renewable Energy (POWER-Kenya*) decision-making in Africa.

The post holder will be based in the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. The Department of Meteorology is world-renowned for its pioneering research on weather, climate and earth observations with 100% of our research graded as world-leading or internationally excellent in REF2021. NCAS is a NERC research centre distributed across UK Universities. At Reading it includes world-leading expertise on climate variability and change and has a strong track record of delivering impactful international projects.

The main duties of the role are to:

  • Carry out research to advance our understanding of the relationships between large-scale modes of tropical variability (e.g., MJO, IOD, ENSO, equatorial waves) and how they modulate local African weather (e.g. precipitation, wind, tropical cyclogenesis, flooding) in observations.
  • Evaluate the representation of these relationships in the ECMWF sub-seasonal forecasting system.
  • Contribute to the development of methods to post-process ECMWF sub-seasonal forecasts to improve their usefulness in decision-making.
  • Contribute to regular interactions with African partners to understand how and if current forecast products are currently used and could be improved to support decision-making, and report on research results in the scientific literature and at relevant workshops and conferences.

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Find out more and make your application.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact: 

Linda Hirons, Senior Research Scientist

Email: l.c.hirons@reading.ac.uk