Postdoctoral Researcher – Hazardous Heat and Climate Change in West Africa

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description Project Description . Hazardous heat is an accelerating threat to human health and economic well-being in West Africa. In Ghana, exposure to hazardous heat is already associated with increased mortality, adverse birth outcomes, and reduced labor productivity. Yet we lack a fine-grained understanding of how hazardous heat varies across space and time, where exposure is greatest, which environmental conditions make heat most hazardous, and how much climate change is driving changes in hazardous heat. The Heat Extremes & Risk Observatory – Ghana (HERO-GH) project will address these knowledge gaps through a combination of high-resolution meteorological observations, atmospheric modeling, remote sensing, and climate-change attribution. The project will investigate how temperature, humidity, and other meteorological conditions interact with land cover to shape hazardous heat exposure across Ghana and examine how these relationships may change under future climate conditions. HERO-GH is conducted in partnership with the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) in Ghana, a leading institution for policy-relevant health research in West Africa. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the monitoring, analysis, and modeling of hazardous heat across Ghana. Depending on the candidate's expertise and interests, the researcher may contribute to one or more of three interconnected work package