Join the eScience Lab at the University of Manchester and help shape the future of climate data sharing and use in Europe! We’re seeking a talented Senior Research Software Engineer to lead FAIR, ontology-driven approaches to climate data integration within the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

You’ll work at the cutting edge of reproducible research, semantic interoperability, and privacy-preserving data tracking—collaborating with climate scientists, technologists, and software engineers across Europe. From developing and contributing to knowledge graphs and FAIRification templates to driving open science practices and community consensus, this is a high-impact, team-driven role with global reach.

If you’re passionate about improving how climate data is handled and shared and making research more open and interoperable, we’d love to hear from you.

Climate-Adapt4EOSC

ClimateAdapt4EOSC, Advancing climate adaptation through open science and data integration in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), is a Horizon Europe funded project that specifically empowers researchers across multiple disciplines to tackle climate change more effectively by providing an advanced, EOSC-centred collaborative research environment. This environment integrates existing EOSC data and services while introducing new datasets and innovative features, such as FAIRification and Mapping and Entity Matching capabilities.

The project will create a climate change adaptation ontology and an EOSC Climate-Adapt Knowledge Graph, enabling enhanced findability, accessibility, tracking, and life cycle management of diverse research outputs. By fostering interoperability and innovation, the project will significantly strengthen the capacity of European scientific communities to address climate change.

Manchester’s role leverages their expertise in reproducibility, interoperability, provenance and their leadership in FAIR and reflects their involvement in various EOSC related projections and initiatives (e.g. the EOSC Opportunity Areas) to aid integration into the broader EOSC ecosystem.

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About the role

The postholder will lead on strategy, research and development of FAIR, ontology driven approaches to climate data and their adoption, evaluation and communication within and beyond the boundaries of the project. This is a highly collaborative and consensus driven role and involves working with research software engineers, climate experts and technology experts in the Manchester team and partners across the project.

The postholder will be working closely with, and be line managed by the Manchester Principal Investigator Dr Stian Soiland-Reyes and be part of the eScience Lab team based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.

The role holder will work with other research software engineers associated with the eScience Lab who have a climate background, they will work with project partners and their use cases and collaborate alongside lab experts and developers in FAIR and Research Objects. This co-working extends to colleagues at partner sites and collaborators in the UK, Europe and worldwide.

For full details and to apply, please visit the University of Manchester Job Posting and its supporting documents.