Jobs:Job-00028
Apply before: 17 November 2019
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Position: PhD opportunity
Apply before: 17 November 2019
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Project start: 1st February 2020, working time 65% (25.35 hours per week); limited for three years
The place of work will be based at UFZ (Centre for Environmental Research, Germany) or one of the partner institutions, depending on the supervisor team. Regular exchange with the partners is assumed. More information on TRACER can be found under https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=46670
Interviews are expected to take place 1st or 2nd week of December. Tele media options will be available in exceptional cases.
Your tasks:
- Identification of sensitive windows in time and space for urban pollution
- Monitoring and simulation of dynamic events inducing acute pollution in urban rivers through hydrologic and load peaks
- Stoichiometric effects on aquatic ecosystems from sewage management (e.g. low N:P ratios favoring the occurrence of cyanobacteria)
- New human and ecological threats from emerging contaminants (e.g. personal-care products, micro-plastics; pharmaceuticals, etc.)
- Water quality problems in (shallow) urban lakes from climate change and urban pollution
Your profile:
- You should have a Master degree in hydrological science, urban water infrastructure systems, or a related field of water resources, a strong interest in working with complex coupled systems in urbanized areas and developing a model to facilitate the establishment of urban water management regulations and willingness and ability to undertake field work.
- It would be highly beneficial if you have an affinity for programming in Matlab, R, or Python and modelling experience with urban rain-runoff and wastewater treatment processes.
- Knowledge in aquatic ecology would be an additional asset.
- Moreover, very good written and spoken English and communication skills are mandatory.
- You should also be willing to work in transdisciplinary projects, intercultural teams and are flexible to travel as there is the possibility for stays abroad of up to 6 months. You should be ready to adopt the TRACER curriculum and to actively engage in TRACER activities.In general you should be curious, highly motivated and have an entrepreneurial attitude.
- Outdoor experience (for field work) and technical skills (for handling lab and field equipment) as well as German communication skills would be beneficial.
- Applications should include two recommendation letters with references.
We offer:
- Top level interdisciplinary research at a research centre which enjoys an excellent reputation within Germany as well as internationally
- Excellent technical facilities
- Work in inter-disciplinary and multinational teams
- Excellent links to national and international research networks
- Support and optimal training courses by our graduate school (HIGRADE)
- Remuneration in accordance with the TVöD public-sector pay grade 13 (65%) including attractive public-sector social security benefits
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) with its 1,100 employees has gained an excellent reputation as an international competence centre for environmental sciences. We are part of the largest scientific organisation in Germany, the Helmholtz association. Our mission: Our research seeks to find a balance between social development and the long-term protection of our natural resources. The UFZ, TU Dresden, Purdue University and University of Florida with German Environmental Agency (UBA), the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) as cooperating partners started the Helmholtz International Research School „Trajectories towards Water Security (TRACER)” to develop a new comprehensive understanding of spatiotemporal trajectories of human impacts on natural water systems and feedbacks between human and ecological systems. We believe that this understanding must be globally transferable at multiple scales and across wide ranges of geographic, hydro-climatic, and socio-economic settings.
