Post­Doc (f/m/d) in com­pu­ta­tio­nal mod­el­ing of biod­iver­sity in river net­works

Helm­holtz-Zen­trum Dres­den-Ros­sen­dorf

Görlitz, Germany 🇩🇪

Facts

  • ID: 163964
  • Num. of employees: 1.500
  • Site: Görlitz (Saxony, Germany)
  • Type: Senior Graduate Position
  • Part-/Full-time: full-time
  • Starting date (earliest): At the earliest possible
  • Remuneration: TVöD-Bund
  • Scope: Computer sciences, Natural Sciences
  • Field of studies: Computer Science, Natural Sciences
  • Working language: German, English

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Helm­holtz-Zen­trum Dres­den-Ros­sen­dorf e.V.

Through cut­ting-edge rese­arch in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MAT­TER, Helm­holtz-Zen­trum Dres­den-Ros­sen­dorf (HZDR) sol­ves some of the press­ing soci­etal and indus­trial chal­len­ges of our time. Join our 1.500 employ­ees from more than 50 nati­ons at one of our six rese­arch sites and help us mov­ing rese­arch to the next level!

The Cen­ter for Advan­ced Sys­tems Under­stand­ing (CASUS) is a Ger­man-Pol­ish rese­arch cen­ter for data-intens­ive digi­tal sys­tems rese­arch. CASUS was foun­ded in 2019 in Görl­itz and con­ducts digi­tal inter­dis­cip­lin­ary sys­tems rese­arch in vari­ous fields such as earth sys­tems rese­arch, sys­tems bio­logy and mater­i­als rese­arch.

To streng­t­hen our diverse team, the Depart­ment of Earth Sys­tem Sci­ence at CASUS is look­ing for a

Post­Doc (f/m/d) in com­pu­ta­tio­nal mod­el­ing of biod­iver­sity in river net­works

The pos­i­tion will be avail­able at the earli­est pos­sible date. The employ­ment con­tract is lim­ited to two years with the pos­sib­il­ity of lon­ger-term pro­spects.

The suc­cess­ful can­did­ate (f/m/d) will be part of an inter­dis­cip­lin­ary team study­ing how river net­work geo­metry, hydro­logy and water qual­ity inter­act to shape fresh­wa­ter fish biod­iver­sity pat­terns in river sys­tems world­wide. In par­tic­u­lar, the post­doc will deve­lop and extend dend­ritic neut­ral biod­iver­sity sim­u­la­tion mod­els (e.g., Mun­eepeer­a­kul et al. 2008) in a high-per­form­ance com­put­ing envir­on­ment.

Working field:

  • Deve­lop com­pu­ta­tion­ally effi­cient dyna­mic biod­iver­sity sim­u­la­tion mod­els for river net­works (e.g., dend­ritic neut­ral mod­els)
  • Extend base­line dend­ritic neut­ral model to account for vari­ation in water tem­per­at­ure, water qual­ity and devi­ati­ons from neut­ral dynam­ics
  • Fit mod­els to fish occur­rence and hydro­logy data from river sys­tems around the world
  • Pub­lish res­ults in aca­demic, peer-reviewed journ­als
  • Pre­sent res­ults at sci­ent­i­fic meet­ings

Requirements:

  • PhD degree in phys­ics, com­puter sci­ence, com­pu­ta­tio­nal math­em­at­ics, com­pu­ta­tio­nal bio­logy/eco­logy, com­pu­ta­tio­nal hydro­logy, or a rela­ted field
  • Exper­i­ence with high-per­form­ance com­put­ing and sha­red com­pute resour­ces
  • Advan­ced pro­gram­ming skills in mod­ern pro­gram­ming lan­guages (Python, C/C++, Julia, R)
  • Exper­i­ence in fit­ting sto­chastic sim­u­la­tion mod­els to data
  • Exper­i­ence work­ing with ver­sion con­trol sys­tems (e.g., git)
  • Excel­lent com­mu­nic­a­tion skills in Eng­lish in a pro­fes­sio­nal con­text (pre­sent­a­tion of rese­arch res­ults at sci­ent­i­fic meet­ings, col­lo­quial dis­cus­sions, manu­script writ­ing)
  • Evid­ence of the abil­ity to pub­lish res­ults in top peer-reviewed journ­als
  • Know­ledge of biod­iver­sity the­ory is advant­age­ous but not requi­red

What we offer:

  • A vibrant rese­arch com­munity in an open, diverse and inter­na­tio­nal work envir­on­ment
  • Sci­ent­i­fic excel­lence and extens­ive pro­fes­sio­nal net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies
  • A wide range of qual­i­fic­a­tion oppor­tun­it­ies and indi­vidual career coun­sel­ing pro­vi­ded by the Post­doc Cen­ter HZDR-TUD
  • Salary and social bene­fits in accord­ance with the col­lect­ive agree­ment for the pub­lic sec­tor (TVöD-Bund) includ­ing 30 days of paid hol­i­day leave, com­pany pen­sion scheme (VBL)
  • We sup­port a good work-life bal­ance with the pos­sib­il­ity of part-time employ­ment, mobile work­ing and flex­ible work­ing hours
  • Numer­ous com­pany health man­age­ment offer­ings
  • Employee dis­counts with well-known pro­viders via the plat­form Cor­por­ate Bene­fits

How to apply:

Kindly sub­mit your com­ple­ted app­lic­a­tion (includ­ing cover let­ter, CV, dip­lo­mas/tran­scripts, etc.) only via our Online-app­lic­a­tion-sys­tem: https://www.hzdr.de/db/!BewerbungS1?pNid=490&pJid=1630&pLang=en


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