<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:Poppins,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, is the fruit of an innovative alliance between academic, government, and philanthropic institutions to contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address the challenges in global health.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:Poppins,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:right"><img alt="" src="https://www.isglobal.org/documents/10179/11469/BANDERA+EUROPEA.png/7cdddaf9-c5c7-49e3-82ee-355f66fc1cde?t=1538733775000" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;margin-right:25px" width="109" height="63"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:Poppins,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-align:center">This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956396</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:Poppins,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;text-align:center"> </p><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">Lugar</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px">BARCELONA - CAMPUS MAR</div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">What We Are Looking for</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2">ISGlobal is seeking a talented and highly motivated predoctoral researcher in the areas of climate sciences, environmental epidemiology and infectious diseases. The successful candidate will join the research team of <a href="http://www.joanballester.eu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Dr. Joan Ballester</a> at the Climate and Health Program of the<a href="https://www.isglobal.org/en/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"> Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)</a> within the framework of the project EDIPI.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2"> </p></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">EDIPI</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box">EDIPI is a 4-year project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956396, and it focuses on the <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">drivers, predictability and impacts of several climate extremes in Europe</span>. As part of the position, you will be working within a strong, cross-disciplinary network of leading universities, research institutes and private-sector partners across Europe and beyond. The project will start on March 1st 2021, more information is available <a href="https://edipi-itn.eu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"> </div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">The Climate Predictability and Health Early Warning Systems PhD position at ISGlobal</span></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"> </div><div style="box-sizing:border-box">Your work will focus on the <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">development of a unified, multi-source prototype system for the joint prediction of temperature-attributable mortality and influenza-like illnesses.</span> The system will integrate: (i) state-of-the-art weather and climate observations and forecasts, (ii) digital data streams such as Google, Twitter and Wikipedia searches, and (iii) records of human mortality, morbidity and influenza into a statistical framework that predicts the dynamics stemming from climate fluctuations, sociological patterns and immunological interactions among viruses. <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">The project might additionally include research on COVID-19.</span></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box"> </div><div style="box-sizing:border-box">Your research will be at the forefront of climate and health sciences by interacting with other investigators in a range of complementary disciplines working in the following projects led by Dr. Ballester:</div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;list-style-type:none;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">EARLY-ADAPT</span> (“Signs of Early Adaptation to Climate Change”) is a 5-year <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (CoG)</span>, whose overarching aim is to jointly analyse the multiple drivers of recent trends in human health. More information is available <a href="http://www.joanballester.eu/early-adapt.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">here</a>.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Blue-Action</span> (“Arctic impact on weather and climate”) is a H2020 project aimed at improving how we describe, model and predict the weather and climate on seasonal to decadal time scales in the northern hemisphere. More information is available<a href="http://blue-action.eu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"> here</a> and<a href="https://www.heathealth.eu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://blue-action.eu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">here.</a></li></ul><div style="box-sizing:border-box"> </div><div style="box-sizing:border-box">EDIPI is tightly aligned with the <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">European Green Deal</span>, as well as the mission “<span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Adaptation to climate change including societal transformation</span>” of the new 2021-2027 Horizon Europe framework program, providing the best long-term scientific, training and funding perspectives for the chosen candidate well beyond the predoctoral period.</div></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">Competences and Duties</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2">Candidates are expected to:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;list-style-type:none;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">have a completed MSc with expertise in climate sciences, environmental epidemiology, infectious diseases, mathematics, physics, biostatistics, big data analysis or related areas;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">have a good track record of first-authored publications in peer-reviewed journals, preferably in high-impact journals;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">have experience in the modelling of climate and health associations;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">have experience in common programming languages, with particular focus on NetCDF, NCO, HDF5, R, Python, Stata and/or GIS tools;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">have experience with the management and analysis of large datasets, and particularly, climate and health data and novel digital data streams (e.g. Google, Twitter and Wikipedia searches);</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">be proficient in spoken and written English;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">be willing to work in an inter-disciplinary team within a highly collaborative research institute.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2">The project offers some degree of flexibility to accommodate the interests and areas of expertise of the chosen candidate. Within the general guidelines and main objectives of the project, we will always favour the independent thinking of the researcher, the formulation of frontier research hypotheses, and the exploration of innovative ideas and methodologies spanning across disciplines.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2"> </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2"> </p></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">Eligibility and Employment Conditions in MSCA ITN</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Applicants must not have resided and not have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc…) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date, unless as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:normal;text-align:justify"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;font-family:calibri,sans-serif">Applicants must also be Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), i.e. at the time of recruitment they must be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers, and must not have been awarded a doctoral degree.</span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">General conditions</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;list-style-type:none;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Annual gross salary: 34.000€.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Annual gross salary with family allowance: 38.500€ (more information is available here).</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Dedication: Full time.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Starting date: the official start date is September 1st 2021, with flexibility for earlier dates before summer.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Duration: 3 years, with some degree of flexibility for longer durations.</li></ul></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">The application should contain:</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;list-style-type:none;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Curriculum Vitae.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Letter of motivation (15 lines maximum).</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Copy of highest diploma.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Copy of your Master project or thesis.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">Contact details of two referees, including email and phone number.</li></ul></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">Languages</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px;list-style-type:none;padding:0px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.8;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;margin-bottom:10px">English.</li></ul></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"><font size="2">How to apply</font></span></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2">Applicants must send all required documents as attached documents through <a href="https://www.isglobal.org/es/job-opportunities-form" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(229,78,31);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">this form</a>, with the subject heading <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">PhD_ITN-EDIPI_Feb21</span>. The closing date for the receipt of applications is <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">12/04/2021.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Applications will be accepted until 17.00 CET of the closing date.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 12.5px;line-height:2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"> <br style="box-sizing:border-box">Only the applications submitted through the request form will be considered.</span></p></div><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;font-weight:400;line-height:1.3;color:inherit;margin:15px 0px 10px"><font size="2"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"></span></font></h3><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-top:1px solid rgb(29,29,29);margin-top:20px;padding-top:15px;padding-left:15px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;display:block;color:rgb(128,128,128)">In ISGlobal we are committed to maintaining and developing a work environment in which the values and principles of our organization are respected and equal opportunities between women and men be promoted in each of the areas in which we operate, not tolerating discrimination based on criteria such as age, sex, marital status, race, ethnicity, disabilities, political leanings, religion or sexual orientation.</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#999999">Gema Corral</font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:black"></span></p><font color="#cccccc" face="Georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">HR Department Development area</span></font><br><p><i><span lang="CA" style="font-size:4pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)"> </span></i><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:rgb(238,127,38)">IS</span></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span lang="CA" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif;color:black">Global</span></b></p><p><span style="color:black"></span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Institut de Salut Global de </span><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(238,127,38)">Barcelona</span><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Campus Clínic</span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Hospital Clínic - Universitat de Barcelona</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Carrer Rosselló 132, 6a planta</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Barcelona 08036</span><span style="color:black"></span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Tel. 93 227 4879</span></p><p><span lang="CA" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.isglobal.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.isglobal.org</a></span></p><p><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1BPZkHHV3R48hcJzfMl-rqq9UTf10Ugoy&revid=0B71FIvPJCnIHUGlYTE5qWUhXUVAvbjdiSDFVZGQ2bHMvamJVPQ" width="96" height="60"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1i_0EOAjv67gt5LWXIfWn9Gae5SP9KuAq&revid=0B71FIvPJCnIHclRNbFRyOVd5WG9YbWJ6OHpyaXRDVWVoWGFZPQ" width="96" height="48"></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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