Upcoming events and news

06/03/2026: Job announcement: RMI (Belgium) is offering a PhD student position that will contribute to the development of an early warning system for ice-free Arctic predictions and their climate impacts, as part of the IcyAlert project. The job offer can be found HERE (application deadline: 3 April 2026).

 

Past events and news

29/01/2026: Seminar: Cesar Aybar (PhD student supervised by Prof. Gustau Camp-Valls at the Image Processing Laboratory, University of Valencia, Spain) gave an online talk on “TACO - Transparent Access to Cloud Optimized Datasets”, a new way to organize Earth observation data.

 

19/11/2025: Job announcement: DTU Compute (Denmark) is offering a PhD scholarship in cutting-edge machine learning methods for climate modelling, as part of the IcyAlert project (application deadline: 8 December 2025).

 

21/10/2025: The IcyAlert kick-off meeting took place at the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen (Denmark), gathering all IcyAlert collaborators (see picture below). The event featured very interesting presentations about the project goals, NNF funding, Gefion AI supercomputer, all 3 partner institutes (DMI, DTU and RMI), Arctic sea ice, causal analysis and machine learning. The meeting agenda can be found HERE.

The IcyAlert team and collaborators at the kick-off meeting in Copenhagen, 21/10/2025

 

01/10/2025: We are starting the IcyAlert project for a total duration of 6 years. We will keep you updated about the project developments.

 

27/06/2025: We got the great news that our IcyAlert project is accepted by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF). See the NNF press release, the DMI press release, the DTU press release and the RMI article.