.Organisation/Company: Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaDepartment: ICTAResearch Field: Environmental science » OtherResearcher Profile: Recognised Researcher (R2)Positions: Postdoc PositionsCountry: SpainApplication Deadline: 8 Jan 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)Type of Contract: TemporaryJob Status: Full-timeHours Per Week: 37.5Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERCReference Number: 101189654Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? NoOffer Description Job position: PostdoctoralJob position requirements (skills/languages/required experience):Skills: Science background preferable; expertise and experience with implementing, maintaining, and managing gas analyzers for GHG such as Picarros, Licor, Los Gatos; knowledge in atmospheric chemistry; experience with atmospheric models preferable.Description:The postdoctoral fellow will be working alongside the URBAG research team (visit www.Urbag.Eu to learn more about our research and the team) and will be responsible for the GHG monitoring network that has recently been developed (visit https://urbag.Eu/ghg/ ) and for developing a line of research that includes several of the following objectives, to be further defined by the candidate:Explore how various land uses of the urban region such as agriculture, parks, urban forest, and built areas affect the budget of CO2 in the city, while understanding the role of atmospheric processes in the transport and distribution of CO2.Develop services, tools, and datasets based on the needs of cities for processing and analyzing the observation data to determine efficacy of GHG reduction strategies; raising awareness and engaging citizens.Collaborate with other SOMMA centers in the exploitation of this data, such as BSC, IS Global, CREAF and others with whom we have already established collaboration for the use of this data.Provide an exemplary urban GHG monitoring system in Europe and contribute to the European ambitious climate strategy to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement.Validate GHGs inventory accounts determined by the city administration as well as urban GHGs modeling efforts and to create repositories of atmospheric C distribution in cities.Intervene with schools in the city of Barcelona, so that climate culture forms part of the schools' curricula and transversal projects.Support the core Maria de Maeztu challenges of ICTA (oceanic and land-use systems, cities, production and consumption patterns, and transformative policies) with pertinent data for their projects; i.E., modeling GHG changes due to "transformative policies", analyzing land-atmosphere CO2 exchange for urban land uses for "cities"