{{:projects:itars:marie_curie.png?50|}}**FP7 ITARS ITN: 11 Early Stage Researcher Positions in Atmospheric Science**

Applications are invited for 11 PhD positions to work in the ITARS ('Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing') Network. ITARS is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) within the FP7 programme. ITARS aims at improving our understanding of aerosols, clouds, and aerosol-cloud interaction processes and their role in both climate and weather. For this purpose, the PhD projects will focus on high-end ground-based remote-sensing instrumentation, synergistic observations and/or mathematical methods. 

The 11 posts are available for 3 years at the following institutions:

  - National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics (INOE) / University of Bucharest, Romania;
  - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona Tech; UPC), Spain;
  - Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (CNR-IMAA) / University of Basilicata (Potenza), Italy;
  - University of Potsdam, Germany;
  - University of Reading, United Kingdom;
  - Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands;
  - Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Leipzig, Germany;
  - University of Cologne, Germany;
  - National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece.



Salaries will be commensurate with a Marie-Curie Early-Stage Researcher (ESR) position.



Single projects will focus on:
  * Modification of aerosol optical properties due to humidity from lidar and microwave radiometer (ESR1);
  * Signal processing and data fusion between multi-spectral lidar and radiometer sensors: Algorithms and error estimation (ESR2);
  * Synergy between Doppler radar and Raman lidar for aerosol investigation (ESR3);
  * Microphysical retrieval of aerosol parameters using multi-wavelength lidar and depolarization signals (ESR4);
  * Cloud-radiation parameterisations based on 3D radiative transfer and sensor synergy (ESR6);
  * Observation of crystal habits and sizes in ice / mixed phase clouds (ESR7);
  * Combination of Doppler lidar and Doppler radar measurements to study vertical motion in context with ice formation in clouds (ESR8);
  * Investigating cloud sub-grid variability from scanning micro-wave radiometer and cloud radar (ESR10);
  * Improvements of Integrated Profiling Technique (IPT) by inclusion of lidar (ESR11);
  * Study of the planetary boundary layer and its influence on cloud development (ESR12);
  * Investigation of the performance of Air Quality Modelling (AQM) in forecasting the distribution of pollutants over Europe (ESR13).




**Nr. Job Positions:** 11

**Research Fields**

Environmental science - Other; Physics - Applied physics;  Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Algorithms; Physics, Computational and Mathematical Physics.

**Career Stage**

Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate)

**Research Profile**

First Stage Researcher (R1)

**Comment/web site for additional job details**

For more information on ITARS and the application process see www.itars.net

** Requirements**
^Required Education Level^^
|Degree 	|Master Degree or equivalent   |
|Degree Field 	|Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Environmental science, Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology, Remote sensing, Geosciences, Mathematics, Numerical or Applied Mathematics; Environmental Physics, Lasers, Environmental engineering, Atmospheric sciences |
^ Required Languages ^^
|Language 	|ENGLISH  |
|Language Level |Good     |



**Additional Requirements** 

Please check www.itars.net for additional requirements.