Internship - Researcher Atmospheric Perils (8 Month

vor 5 Monaten


Zurich, Schweiz PartnerRe Vollzeit

Company Description

PartnerRe is a leading, privately owned, multi-line global reinsurer with a reputation of financial stability and strength, and a commitment to rebuilding businesses and communities after risk events around the world.

Our mission is to continue to be a financially stable and predictable business partner, supporting our clients with solutions tailored to their needs, delivering superior returns to our owner, providing rewarding opportunities for our people and making a positive contribution to society. To achieve this, we live by our values of Integrity, Performance, Collaboration, Straightforward Communication and Respect and Care.

Core to The PartnerRe Experience is our global nature. No matter where you sit in the company, you are part of something bigger. Our teams represent our truly international mindset, forging connections across office locations and all levels of the organization and building a network of mutual success. The result is a day-to-day experience that will allow you to:
Shape your own career

Grow in a supportive environment

Connect with a community of experts

Make an impact

View The PartnerRe Experience e-book to find out more about what it’s like to work at PartnerRe.

**Job Description**:
This position is within the Catastrophe Research team, which is located in Zurich, and is part of a larger catastrophe management unit responsible for assessment of natural catastrophe risk.

The Research team is comprised of a group of highly skilled applied scientists, whose expertise on natural hazards is utilized throughout the company to support risk transfer decisions.

**Your core responsibility will be to contribute to ongoing research projects, relevant to PartnerRe’s view of risk and proprietary model development.**

In more detail your main tasks are to:

- Analyse and manipulate meteorological hazard, vulnerability and exposure datasets as inputs to catastrophe loss models
- Contribute to the development of our proprietary Europe windstorm or tropical cyclone catastrophe models
- Learn about different model methodologies, validate existing models and perform model sensitivity tests
- Present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

**Qualifications**:

- A masters degree or a PhD in the field of atmospheric and/or hydrological sciences, preferably with advanced knowledge in either meteorology, climatology, hydrology or environmental sciences.
- A strong analytical background with experience in scientific analysis
- Affinity and experience in programming (ideally in R) to perform data manipulation, statistical analysis and data visualization
- Experience with NCAR Command Language (NCL) and other software to manipulate and analyse large GCM & RCM model output datasets would be advantageous
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team towards common goals
- Pro-active, solution oriented with a high level of self initiative
- Good communication skills with the ability to present complex technical topics to non-technical audiences
- Proficient (written and verbal) in English, other languages are a plus.
- You are either an EU or Swiss citizen, or entitled to work in Switzerland.

Additional Information
**What we can offer you**:
One of PartnerRe’s core strengths is its technical know-how, built over many years of investment in the right people working on the challenges of quantifying catastrophe risk. Be that person and join us

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. We invite you to learn more about D&I at PartnerRe.

Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team


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