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Whenever there are any new positions available at the ICOS or related communities we will announce it on this page.

If you have information about related open vacancies, please email ICOS Communications at icos-comms (at) icos-ri.eu

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Open positions in the ICOS field

 

Research Engineer for ICOS, Laboratory for Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), (Deadline 11th July 2025)

The CNRS is opening a Research Engineer position for the LSCE as part of the ICOS research infrastructure. The person recruited will be responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring multi-parameter monitoring systems (greenhouse gases, radon, meteorological parameters), and to supervise the LSCE program for vertical profiles measurements of greenhouse gases.

Main activities:

  • Responsible for organizing the supervision of GHG and meteorological measurements at the ICOS observatory in Saclay: quality control of measurements, training of technical staff for regular maintenance, updating of analyzers, coordination of intensive campaigns with the researchers involved.
  • Responsible for organizing radon measurement at LSCE, its deployment at measurement stations (about 10 sites), training of technical staff and supervision of measurement processing chains.
  • Organize the LSCE program for measuring vertical GHG profiles under balloon, training and supervising technical staff, and monitoring the data processing and quality control chain.
  • Study scientific requirements for ICOS stations and mobile platforms used in the French monitoring network, and propose improvements in measurement methods.
  • Upgrade on-board systems, which include gas, temperature, pressure, humidity, flow and GPS sensors, and which need to be integrated into robust, real-time communicating systems.
  • Participate in field missions to deploy measurements and maintain the stations.
  • Structure the technological watch on GHG measurements and associated tracers (e.g. reactive gases, isotopes).
  • Participate in national and European ICOS meetings, to present, disseminate and promote the team's achievements.

Deadline for applications is 11th July 2025

Apply here (in French) using Concours N° 29
 

3-yr PostDoc position Greenhouse gas balance of fen meadow landscapes, Water Systems and Global Change group, Wageningen University, Netherlands (Deadline 28th July 2025)

In support of emission reduction policies for fen meadow landscapes, we contribute to projects such as the Netherlands Research Programme on Greenhouse Gas Dynamics from Peatlands and Organic soils, and PeatPals. These aim to investigate the effects of various mitigation measures on total greenhouse gas balance of the targeted areas. We  contribute to this peatland research with (mobile) tower based eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide and methane exchange at field scale and with airborne measurements using the same technique at regional scale. Dedicated staff operate 20+ sites and make 200+ flying hours annually. Building on this unique dataset we aim to link the various measurement scales to come up with distributed, wall-to-wall landscape budgets of these greenhouse gases.

As a PostDoc, you will work and publish on the following research topics (relative weight to be determined based on your interest and qualifications): analyse and scale carbon dioxide and methane flux data from multiple locations and transects in relation to explanatory variables from vegetation and soil characteristics, land and water management and meteorology; develop data driven models of regional greenhouse gas balances for the fen meadow areas of the Netherlands under (emission reduction) management; use the model to simulate distributed emissions at regional to national scale; analyse the impacts of climate anomalies and climate change on regional greenhouse gas emissions; analyse trade-offs and synergies between nature management and climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in wetlands.

Deadline for applications is 28th July 2025.

Read more and apply here.

 

Doctoral student, Ecosystem COS exchange, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (Deadline 1st August 2025)

The Grassland Sciences Group is a vibrant and international working group at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. We are looking for a reliable, enthusiastic, and highly motivated doctoral student with a passion for science to join our team. Our research focuses on the process- and system-understanding of the biosphere- atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange and its drivers in forests and agroecosystems, in response to management and climate.

This position is part of the project Above- and below-canopy COS fluxes to constrain and partition forest CO2 and ET fluxes (ABACOS) funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The aim of this project is to quantify COS (carbonyl sulfide) fluxes at different spatial and temporal scales in a temperate broadleaf forest in Switzerland (Lägeren), using an unprecedented integration of co-located measurements. We will measure above- and below-canopy COS fluxes as well as CO2 and evapotranspiration (ET) fluxes, and quantify contributions of soil, branch, and understory vegetation to ecosystem fluxes. Driver analyses with machine learning approaches will provide detailed insights into the underlying processes. A COS-based estimate of ecosystem gross primary productivity (GPP) will be calculated and compared to other independent estimates. Thus, ABACOS will provide a comprehensive assessment of different GPP constraints and contribute unique COS flux data to the global COS community from a temperate mixed forest, where flux measurements are scarce. The ABACOS team will include a doctoral student (this position), a postdoc (years 3 and 4) and a technician (years 1 to 3).

The earliest starting date is 1 August 2025. We will start interviewing candidates end of May 2025.

Read more and apply