PhD position - IcyAlert project

Job description We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student within the Dynamical Meteorology and Climatology Unit of the Research Department at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMI) in the context of the IcyAlert project (“Intelligent Climate Early Warning Alert for Arctic Ice-Free Summers”). The IcyAlert project is funded by the Danish Novo Nordisk Foundation and spans from October 2025 to September 2031. The goal of IcyAlert is to improve predictions of Arctic ice-free summers and their climate impacts at multi-seasonal timescale using global climate models, causal methods and machine learning tools. The project is led by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), in collaboration with RMI and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The PhD student will be based at RMI during 4 years and will be co-supervised by both Dr. David Docquier (RMI) and Prof. François Massonnet (Université catholique de Louvain [UCLouvain], Belgium), with multiple collaboration opportunities with colleagues in the two research institutes, as well as with collaborators in the two Danish IcyAlert partners (DMI and DTU) and RMI external partner institutes. The full job offer can be found at https://www.meteo.be/en/info/news-resume/offre-demploi-chercheur-projet-icyalert. If you hold an MSc degree in a field related to the topic of this PhD and are interested in this position, please apply until Friday 3 April 2026. Please contact David Docquier (david.docquier@meteo.be) if you have any question about this job opportunity. How to apply The full job offer and instructions to submit an application can be found at https://www.meteo.be/en/info/news-resume/offre-demploi-chercheur-projet-icyalert.