Post Doc in Air Quality - Barcelona, España - Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

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Barcelona, España

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Isabel García

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Job Reference:

509_23_ES_AQS_R2
Position:
Post Doc in air quality (R2)
Closing Date:
Saturday, 16 December, 2023
Reference: 509_23_ES_AQS_R2
Job title: Post Doc in air quality (R2)
About BSC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads largescale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 900 staff from 55 countries.
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We are particularly interested for this role in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research.
Context And Mission
The Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), BSC-ES henceforth ) is one of the most active groups in air quality and atmospheric composition modeling, climate prediction and climate services in Europe. The Department comprises about 160 people, including scientists and technical staff.

It is structured into five distinct but interacting research groups:

Atmospheric Composition, Climate Prediction, Earth System Services (ESS), Global Health Resilience, and Computational Earth Sciences.- The group hosts air quality and climate researchers, research engineers, physicists, social scientists, economists, epidemiologists, and communication experts who work to bring the latest developments in earth sciences to society.

ESS has an interdisciplinary approach with several lines of expertise working together and collaborating with the other research groups within the Earth Sciences Department.

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Key Duties

Implementation, execution and monitoring of atmospheric numerical models in a High-Performance Computing environment.
Analyse and evaluate model results against observations, prepare charts and reports of the results.
Perform innovative useroriented research, facilitating technology and knowledge transfer.
Communicate scientific results within the Department, in international conferences and write quality papers in scientific publications.
Involvement in the preparation of competitive grants and projects.

Requirements:

Education
PhD in Environmental Engineering or related disciplines.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
Experience in air quality and meteorological models (e.g., CMAQ, WRF) and related analysis software.
Ability to work in a professional environment and within a multidisciplinary research team.
Demonstrated verbal communication and technical presentation skills (English is a must).
Experience in statistical methods and previous skills in R and/or Python
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
Computing skills in lowlevel computer languages (especially FORTRAN 90) and experience with UNIX/LINUX environments.
Experience in data formats (NetCDF) and tools used in Earth sciences.
Experience in air quality planning and emission scenarios will be valued.
Willing to travel.
Competences
Fluency in English.
Fluency in other European languages will be also valued.

Conditions

The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department
We offer a fulltime contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with stateoftheart infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures
Duration: Openended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration
Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement
Starting date: 1/12/2023

Applications procedure and process- A full CV in English including contact details

A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references
Applications without this document will not be considered

At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.

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DeadlineOTM-R principles for selection processes**- BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed