The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.

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The Earth System Services Group (ESS) at the Earth Sciences Department conducts interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to enhance the societal value of environmental information, climate prediction and air quality services. The group actively engages with society, decision-makers, and businesses to exchange knowledge and develop user-oriented services. The aim of the ESS is to enhance knowledge and technology integration and improve resilience, by accelerating adaptation to a rapidly changing environment.

The ESS group’s Knowledge Integration Team is looking for a motivated researcher from any nationality to join our team and further our work on understanding the value of earth system services, and their co-evaluation, impact assessment and exploitation. Developing and applying qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods approaches, the successful candidate will contribute to and enhance our emerging knowledge, practices and products (services) that aim at supporting resilience and climate change adaptation. To conduct such activities, the new team member will be expected to undertake knowledge co-production processes involving various stakeholders and users of earth system information to co-create and co-evaluate new knowledge and services. Using new approaches that reflect the different types of value climate and air quality services provide (economic, social, ecological, cultural etc.), the successful candidate will design strategies (such as exploitation plans) that assure the societal, scientific, or business use of the new knowledge and services generated in our ongoing and future research projects. The tasks will involve close collaboration with climate, air quality, social, and impact scientists and communication experts within ESS, Earth Sciences Department, and our project partners.

The successful candidate will be expected to learn about and participate in ESS’s ongoing international scientific work and contribute to new proposals. We are looking for a candidate who is a team player and will form an active part of our collaborative, diverse, interdisciplinary, and international team of scientists, communication specialists and technical experts. The successful candidate will benefit from expert training and a range of BSC-CNS staff benefits.