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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:

1. National Institute for Research and Development in Optoelectronics (INOE) / University of Bucharest, Romania;
2. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona Tech; UPC), Spain;
3. Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (CNR-IMAA) / University of Basilicata (Potenza), Italy;
4. University of Potsdam, Germany;
5. University of Reading, United Kingdom;
6. Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands;
7. Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT), Leipzig, Germany;
8. University of Cologne, Germany;
9. 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;
• Signal processing and data fusion between multi-spectral lidar and radiometer sensors: Algorithms and error estimation;
• Synergy between Doppler radar and Raman lidar for aerosol investigation;
• Microphysical retrieval of aerosol parameters using multi-wavelength lidar and depolarization signals;
• Cloud-radiation parameterisations based on 3D radiative transfer and sensor synergy;
• Observation of crystal habits and sizes in ice / mixed phase clouds;
• Combination of Doppler lidar and Doppler radar measurements to study vertical motion in context with ice formation in clouds;
• Investigating cloud sub-grid variability from scanning micro-wave radiometer and cloud radar;
• Improvements of Integrated Profiling Technique (IPT) by inclusion of lidar;
• Study of the planetary boundary layer and its influence on cloud development;
• Investigation of the performance of Air Quality Modelling (AQM) in forecasting the distribution of pollutants over Europe.

Nr. Job Positions: 11

Research Fields

Environmental - Other; Applied Physics, Remote Sensing; Mathematics, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Algorithms; Physics, Computational and Mathematical Physics; Physics – Applied Physics; Atmospheric Physics/Meteorology; Air quality modeling, Model evaluation, Air quality forecast

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**

Additional Requirements

Please check www.itars.net for additional requirements.