Research Director via EURAXESS

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTECH

Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

Job Information

Organisation/Company: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)- BarcelonaTECH

Research Field: Engineering » Civil engineering

Researcher Profile: Established Researcher (R3)

Country: Spain

Application Deadline: 22 May 2023 – 23:00 (Europe/Madrid)

Type of Contract: Temporary

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 37,5

Offer Starting Date: 1 Jul 2023

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?: Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number: 150-952-036

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?: No

Offer Description

Mission:

Direct the research Works of the CRAHI in several funded projects.                                                                                                          

Functions:

  • Calibrate hydrological models with real data.
  • Develop tools for the integration of radar data.
  • Develop integrated flood protection systems.
  • Prepare reports of high scientific and technical content.
  • Participate as director of research for public and private projects.

Requirements

Research Field: Engineering » Civil engineering

Education Level: PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Technical Competences:

  • Hydrological Modeling.
  • Radar rain measurement.
  • Advanced programming in IDL language.                   

Organizational Skills:

  • Person oriented towards the investigation.
  • Leadership ability.

Specific Requirements

Required Education:

  • Hydrological Modeling.
  • Radar rain measurement.
  • Advanced programming in IDL language.
  • Knowledge about R & D public and private projects.

Professional experience:

  • Experience in writing research papers and research reports in European projects.

Additional Requirements:

  • Having participated in national and international R & D projects.
  • To have participated in international conferences.
  • Have published scientific articles in international journals.
  • Having made a stay in a foreign center.

Languages: ENGLISH, Level: Good

Languages: SPANISH, Level: Good

Languages: CATALAN, Level: Basic

Research Field: Engineering » Civil engineering

Years of Research Experience: 4 – 10

Additional Information

Benefits

€41,054.37 gross/year (per full-time)

Eligibility criteria

All the candidates who cannot prove the required academic degree will be immediately withdrawn from the selection process.

The CVs will be assessed according the following general criteria:

  • The maximum score for the candidates who accomplish all the eligibility criteria stated in the job offer will be 10 points.
  • Threshold: 5 points.
  • The maximum score (10 points) will be distributed as follows:
    • 1 point for required speciality.
    • 2 points for required academic training.
    • 2 points for technic competences.
    • 1 point for organisational competences.
    • 3 points for professional experience.
    • 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as specially relevant by the Selection committee.

If the selection committee decide to include a personal interview as additional step of the selection process, only the candidates scored 5 or above for their CV will be retained for the interview step.

The interview will be assessed according the following criteria:

  • Maximum scoring: 5 points.
  • Threshold: 3 points.
  • The maximum score will be distributed according the following criteria:
    • 2 points for adequacy to functional competences of the job.
    • 2 points for adequacy of professional experience.
    • 1 point for any aspect of the candidate’s professional profile to be determined as especially relevant by the Selection committee.

The eligible candidates will be ranked from highest to lowest score, being this the selection criteria.

Selection process

The planned selection process is as follows:

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available: 1

Company/Institute: Center of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology (CRAHI)

Country: Spain

State/Province: Barcelona

City: Barcelona

Postal Code: 08034

Street: Jordi Girona, 1-3

Where to apply

Website: https://rdi.upc.edu/ca/uaslr/vols-dedicar-te-a-la-recerca/ofertes-PR/concursos-…

Contact

City: Barcelona

Website: https://www.upc.edu/

Street: C. Jordi Girona, 31

Postal Code: 08034

E-Mail: lourdes.moreno@upc.edu


POSITION TYPE

ORGANIZATION TYPE

EXPERIENCE-LEVEL

DEGREE REQUIRED

LANGUAGE REQUIRED

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