The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), a scientific institute of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), based in Seville, Spain, is offering several Post-Doctoral Researcher Positions in the unit "Sustainability in Industry, Energy, and Transport". The unit is looking for an environmental economist, a researcher-analyst in the field of cost-benefit analysis in industry, energy, environment and transport, a researcher-analyst in the field of energy and climate change, and a researcher in the field of advanced programming techniques with particular emphasis on optimization/simulation programming applied to energy, environmental and transportation models.
The mission of the IPTS is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policy-making process by researching science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic and a scientific or technological dimension. The positions are for 36 months. The approximate monthly net salary is between 2.450 and 2.660 Euro. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2005 (date of postmark). For more information see http://www.jrc.es/home/pages/job_call051101/index_call051101.htm.