Location: | Cambridge |
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Salary: | £29,605 to £44,263 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 12th July 2024 |
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Closes: | 8th August 2024 |
Job Ref: | MA42450 |
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance.
Applications are invited for a 24 month position funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and Department for Transport to investigate the climate impacts of aviation NOx emissions as part of the UK community Jet Zero programme. You will be a key part of the programme and will be embedded in the NCAS@Cambridge group based in the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. The successful applicant will work closely with other scientists in the project based at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds and York as well as NCAS and the UK Met Office. Your work will focus on developing novel experiments with the UKESM model to isolate the impacts aviation emissions of NOx have on levels of tropospheric oxidants and develop analyses to constrain these effects using historic observations. As part of the team you will have the opportunity to be involved in new aircraft experiments performed in the project with the NERC FAAM aircraft. You will also work closely with scientists around the world who will supply model results for mutli-model analyses.
We are looking for a highly motivated and technically proficient candidate with a good track record at problem solving using numerical models. The successful candidate will be engaged in running experiments with the UKESM model and in software development for model-observation analyses. You will be working as part of wide team of researchers and research software engineers, but you must have sufficient time management skills to work independently on a day-to-day basis.
Applicants must have (or be about to obtain) a PhD in a physical or computational science; desirable areas include atmospheric science, computational mathematics, computer science, and physics. Experience with the Unified Model or atmospheric modelling is highly desirable but not essential. Experience interpreting large model datasets or observational datasets using software such as Python, R, or Matlab is essential. Expertise in stratospheric or tropospheric chemistry or aerosol modelling is desirable. Proficiency in Fortran and experience running computer code on high performance computers is desirable.
The position is available immediately. Interviews are likely to be mid-late August.
To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please visit : http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47373.
Please ensure that you upload your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter and publications list in the Upload section of the online application. If you upload any additional documents that have not been requested, we will not be able to consider these as part of your application.
For queries regarding applying online for this post, please contact Alex Campbell (email: a.archibald.group.admin@ch.cam.ac.uk).
Please quote reference MA42450 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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