






The climate needs bright minds. The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) addresses crucial scientific questions in the fields of global change, climate impacts and sustainable development. It is one of the world's leading research institutions in its field and offers natural and social scientists from around the world an inspiring environment for excellent interdisciplinary research. The Climate Economics and Policy research department, located at EUREF Campus in Berlin-Schöneberg, is offering an exciting opportunity to be part of the Evidence for Climate Solutions working group. We are currently looking for a Student Research Assistant (m/f/d) (Position number: 06-2026 SHK PATHFINDER) to support the PATHFINDER 2 project, among others, starting on 01.05.2026 or as soon as possible. The position is funded for initially 1 year, with the possibility of extension. The remuneration is determined according to the guidelines of the TdL. The current hourly rate for a student assistant with a Bachelor's degree is 14,59 € (without a Bachelor's degree 13,98 €). This is a part-time position with a working time of 10–20 hours per week. Key responsibilities: * Develop new features for our annotation platform and other tools * support researchers that use our platform (analysis or project on-boarding) * develop and maintain ‘living’ systematic maps (automatically fetch and classify new publications and integrate into our databases) * integrate living synthesis pipelines into human-in-the-loop processes (e.g. Cochrane crowd or NACSOS) * evaluate and develop automation tools for information extraction * help us to unlock multi-lingual evidence synthesis * improve our interactive climateliterature.org platform * enhance our local database snapshot of OpenAlex with >480M records * drive your own ideas that accelerate the evidence synthesis process