About this role
Postdoc Position on Philosophy of Science and/or Moral Philosophy Published Wednesday 8 Apr 2026 Deadline Tuesday 25 Aug 2026 Work area Academic staff Organisational unit Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) Employment 1 fte - 1 fte The Erasmus School of Philosophy is looking for a postdoc candidate to conduct research in any area of philosophy of science and/or moral philosophy relevant to climate change research. The candidate will be expected to conduct research on those areas and work together with the leader of the philosophy work packages of SUNRISE, dr. Laura García-Portela, in the deliverables pertaining to such project. The position also comes some teaching obligations. Job description SUNRISE (Extreme Events In A Warming, Unequal World: Linking Drivers To Impacts For Improved Attribution, Forecasting And Regional Responses) is an HORIZON-EU funded consortium that brings together 19 academic and non-academic partners from three continents with the scope of advancing the knowledge and practices of attribution science, impact assessment and operationalized forecasting of climate and weather extreme events at global scale. SUNRISE will challenge the state of the art by (i) producing new comprehensive data collections that can serve as references for future studies, (ii) enhancing the understanding of physical mechanisms and causal pathways to strengthen attribution analyses and model development, build operationalized seasonal forecasts and test their skill as early warning systems, (iii) developing novel impact-focused attribution frameworks that integrates climatic and non-climatic drivers across sectors, combines cutting-edge datasets with multivariate methods, and delivers spatially explicit tools for the attribution of compound events and impacts which might be ground-breaking to support adaptation in vulnerable regions, (iv) creating tools for climate justice analyses to inform risk assessment, adaptation p...