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PhD Socioeconomic impacts of climate extremes from multilingual textual extraction(m/w/x)
Leipzig
Full-timeOn-siteJunior
AI/ML
Data Science
Nejo AI Summary
You will bridge the gap between climate science and AI by developing advanced NLP models to extract and analyze the socioeconomic impacts of extreme weather events from global literature.
Requirements
- Willingness to complete international secondments
- Master’s degree in relevant field
- Compliance with German residency mobility rules
- No prior PhD degree award
- Good command of scientific programming
- Experience handling large datasets (advantageous)
- Interest in NLP and machine learning
- Interest in societal consequences of disasters
- Independent and collaborative work ability
- Good command of English
Tasks
- Develop NLP and LLM models for impact extraction
- Extract climate impact data from multilingual literature
- Train models to quantify uncertainty in impact claims
- Produce confidence scores for risk modeling
- Identify counterfactual and attributional statements
- Derive a causal typology for climate impacts
- Analyze spatial and temporal impact patterns
- Cross-validate results with modeled and observed data
- Collaborate with the CLIMES Doctoral Network
- Present findings at conferences and in publications
Education
Master's degree
Languages
English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
PythonRNatural language processingText miningMachine learning
Benefits
Mentorship & Coaching
- •Excellent supervision
- •HIGRADE graduate programme
Informal Culture
- •Interdisciplinary and international teams
- •International Office support
Other Benefits
- •National and international research networks
- •Research data management support
- •Vibrant region location
- •Accessibility
Modern Equipment
- •Excellent research infrastructure
Family Support
- •Family office support
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HEHelmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ
PhD Socioeconomic impacts of climate extremes from multilingual textual extraction(m/w/x)
Leipzig
Full-timeOn-siteJunior
AI/ML
Data Science
Nejo AI Summary
You will bridge the gap between climate science and AI by developing advanced NLP models to extract and analyze the socioeconomic impacts of extreme weather events from global literature.
Requirements
- Willingness to complete international secondments
- Master’s degree in relevant field
- Compliance with German residency mobility rules
- No prior PhD degree award
- Good command of scientific programming
- Experience handling large datasets (advantageous)
- Interest in NLP and machine learning
- Interest in societal consequences of disasters
- Independent and collaborative work ability
- Good command of English
Tasks
- Develop NLP and LLM models for impact extraction
- Extract climate impact data from multilingual literature
- Train models to quantify uncertainty in impact claims
- Produce confidence scores for risk modeling
- Identify counterfactual and attributional statements
- Derive a causal typology for climate impacts
- Analyze spatial and temporal impact patterns
- Cross-validate results with modeled and observed data
- Collaborate with the CLIMES Doctoral Network
- Present findings at conferences and in publications
Education
Master's degree
Languages
English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
PythonRNatural language processingText miningMachine learning
Benefits
Mentorship & Coaching
- •Excellent supervision
- •HIGRADE graduate programme
Informal Culture
- •Interdisciplinary and international teams
- •International Office support
Other Benefits
- •National and international research networks
- •Research data management support
- •Vibrant region location
- •Accessibility
Modern Equipment
- •Excellent research infrastructure
Family Support
- •Family office support
Find the original job posting in its most current version here. Nejo automatically captured this job from the website of Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ and processed the information on Nejo with the help of AI for you. Despite careful analysis, some information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Please always verify all details in the original posting! Content and copyrights of the original posting belong to the advertising company.
About the Company
Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ
Industry
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Description
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is an international competence centre for environmental sciences, focusing on balancing social development and natural resource protection.
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