Join our team

The ISMIP7 project is seeking dynamic, mission-oriented polar scientists to join our team and contribute to the following positions. These positions are funded via a generous grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation. While they are housed at a single institution, they serve the needs of the entire project.

The figure at left illustrates many of the core tasks and staff that contribute to the achievement of ISMIP7 goals. The blue rectangles represent positions and tasks that are funded by the Heising-Simons Foundation (HSF) and include key research positions that contribute to e.g., the achievement of focus group (FG) goals, as well as data processing and the analysis of results. The project is hiring for many of these "blue rectangles" with positions and contact details described below.

Open positions

Postdoctoral researcher on Greenland Ice Sheet submarine melt and iceberg calving (UK)

Position description and link to position advertised by Donald Slater

Postdoctoral researcher in Greenland Ice Sheet modelling and ensemble support (NO)

This position at NORCE Research in Bergen, Norway is filled.

Postdoctoral researcher on Antarctic sub-ice shelf melt (UK)

The postdoctoral scholar on this position will support the research activities of the Antarctic ice-ocean focus group of ISMIP7. This position will be under the supervision of Ronja Reese at Northumbria University in Newcastle (UK), and applications are possible until 16th of December.

More information and application here.

Postdoctoral researcher on Antarctic ice sheet experiment design and analysis (US)

The ISMIP7 Antarctic Ice Sheet analysis and ensemble support aims to produce robust projections of the Antarctic ice sheet contributions to sea level rise and freshwater discharge needed by the science community and stakeholders. The postdoctoral scholar working on this project will assist in the design of the Antarctic experiments and the ensemble design, and support the analysis of the results to provide robust estimates of Antarctic contribution to sea level. They will closely work with all the focus groups specializing in Antarctic ice sheet processes (SMB, ocean melt, ice shelf collapse, GIA) as well as the observations focus group. We will also test the experimental protocol extensively with an ice sheet model to ensure the feasibility and easy implementation of the experiments and implementation of the different processes.

This position will be under the supervision of Helene Seroussi at Dartmouth College (US) and will start in summer 2025.

Postdoctoral researcher on Antarctic Surface Mass Balance (US)

The ISMIP7 effort aims to produce robust projections of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheet contributions to sea level rise and freshwater discharge needed by the science community and stakeholders. The postdoctoral scholar working on this project will assist in the design and analysis of the Antarctic SMB products and experiments. They will closely work with all the focus groups specializing in Antarctic ice sheet processes (ocean melt, ice shelf collapse, GIA) as well as the observations focus group and the Antarctic ice sheet ensemble postdoctoral researcher. This position will work closely with the Greenland SMB position hosted at the University of Liege (BE).

This position will be under the supervision of Sophie Nowicki at University at Buffalo and Nicole Schlegel at GFDL (US) and will start in fall 2025. For enquires on this position, please email sophien - at - buffalo.edu

Coordinator for ISMIP7 activities (US)

This position will work closely with all ISMIP focus groups and help coordinate the ISMIP7 activities.This position will be under the supervision of Sophie Nowicki at University at Buffalo and will start in fall 2025. For enquires on this position, please email sophien - at - buffalo.edu

Researcher on coupled ice sheet model - Earth system model simulations (UK)

This position will support the ISM-ESM focus group (Task F1)and will be under the guidance of Robin Smith in Reading (UK).

We anticipate this position will be filled in 2026-2027.

Researcher on climate model selection for ice sheet modeling (UK)

Position description and link to position advertised by Tony Payne

Researcher on the impact of isostatic adjustment on ice sheet simulation (TBD)

Position description.