Research Assistants on Energy and Climate

Place description

Bruegel is a European assume tank working within the discipline of worldwide economics. Established in 2005, Bruegel is unbiased and non-doctrinal. Its mission is to enhance the standard of financial coverage with open and fact-based analysis, evaluation and debate. We’re dedicated to impartiality, openness and excellence. Bruegel’s membership contains European Member State governments, worldwide firms and establishments. For extra details about Bruegel, please seek the advice of: www.bruegel.org 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES  

Analysis Assistants on Vitality and Local weather work intently with Bruegel Vitality and Local weather Fellows to conduct analysis within the types of Datasets, Coverage Briefs, Blueprints, Blogs, exterior publications and venture deliverables.

Obligations embrace gathering data; amassing, cleansing, and analysing power, local weather and financial knowledge; producing charts and graphs for publication and displays; reviewing related educational literature and ongoing coverage debates, supporting venture work (group of conferences and agendas, inner coordination, outreach with stakeholders) and sometimes taking notes at conferences and occasions.  

Analysis Assistants on Vitality and Local weather can have the chance to co-author Bruegel publications, and contribute personal concepts and initiative.

We provide full-time one-year contracts for Analysis Assistants. 
 

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

Expertise 
All candidates should maintain a Grasp’s diploma or equal in Economics (or associated fields), ought to possess a stable understanding of economics, exhibit very robust technical strengths in quantitative economics strategies/econometrics and exhibit a robust curiosity in power and local weather points.

Proficiency in Python, R or Matlab (no less than in one of many three), in addition to in Excel, is required. Information cleansing, visualisation and scraping abilities (utilizing e.g. Python or JavaScript) can be helpful, and as a minimum a need to be taught such abilities is required.

Candidates should be fluent in English, each written and spoken.  

Candidates are anticipated to have the ability to confidently, autonomously and professionally talk with Bruegel colleagues, and sometimes whereas representing Bruegel at public or non-public occasions. Versatility, consideration to element and the power to work as a team-player with quick deadlines are important.

Demonstrated skill to comprehensively digest advanced data and talk it in a coherent method, corresponding to via literature evaluate is fascinating. Candidates are anticipated to own a robust skill to work autonomously, and produce personal concepts to the desk, while below the steering of Bruegel fellows.  

Pursuits

Candidates should have an curiosity in utilized, policy-oriented analysis within the space of local weather and power coverage. Matters of relevance embrace the EU power and local weather governance, inner power market, carbon markets, industrial coverage, inexperienced macroeconomics, local weather geoeconomics and the economics of family and transportation decarbonisation, together with Simply Transition.

Expertise  
Moreover a Grasp’s diploma – or equal – in Economics, candidates for this particular Analysis Assistant place ought to possess no less than one yr {of professional} expertise in financial empirical work in addition to in managing or coordinating knowledge tasks. 

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