PREDOCTORAL CONTRACT- SATELLITE AND AI FOR AIR QUALITY SERVICES (R1)

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 large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.
The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.
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Context And Mission The Department of Earth Sciences of the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), BSC-ES henceforth (bsc.
s/earth-sciences) 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 200 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 candidate will work in the ESS group.
The ESS group develops climate and air quality services, facilitating knowledge and technology transfer of state-of-the-art research at local, national, and international levels.
The main purpose is to demonstrate the ongoing value of climate prediction services, atmospheric composition, and weather forecasting to society and key sectors of the economy, such as renewable energy, urban development, infrastructure, transport, insurance, health, and agriculture.
The ESS is looking for a PhD student willing to apply state-of-the-art AI methods and satellite data to air quality services.
The role will require the use of satellite retrieval methods and regression algorithms to relate satellite imagery to air pollution patterns.
This PhD will also involve the use of satellite information for downscaling methodologies and uncertainty quantification studies.
Successful candidates will benefit from the training program and the BSC-CNS staff benefits.
an international multidisciplinary scientific environment, advanced research training, and advanced computational facilities.
We encourage applications from highly motivated physicists, engineers and mathematicians (and related disciplines) with outstanding qualifications.
Key Duties Satellite retrieval methods and regression algorithms to infer air pollution patterns Multidisciplinary research, working with scientists and IT developers Analyze and evaluate model results against observations; create graphs and reports.
Requirements Education Bachelor’s degree in Physics Master in Applied Mathematics or related disciplines Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Previous experience working with air quality data Experience with AI methods in R (or Python).
Ability to work in a professional environment and in a multidisciplinary research team.
Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience in model development and application in parallel computing environments will be valued.
Demonstrated verbal communication and technical presentation skills.
Fluency in English.
Competences Fluency in other European languages will also be valued.
Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Earth Sciences Department We offer a full-time contract (37.
h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures Duration.
Open-ended 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 Salary.
we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona Starting date.
Applications procedure and process All applications must be made through BSC website and contain.
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 In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process.
After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.
A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
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Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
OTM-R principles for selection processes BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R).
This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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