Postdoc: Cloud Microphysics & LES Modeling

Delft; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension ABP

Annual leave 232 hours

Health insurance discount

Individual employment package

Job summary

TU Delft, via the Geoscience & Remote Sensing department, seeks a PostDoc to advance measuring and simulating stratocumulus clouds within the TurPhyCloud ERC Synergy Project. You will design measurement and simulation strategies, process data, and collaborate with international partners to push cloud microphysics research forward.

You will join a vibrant, interdisciplinary team and contribute to teaching activities while developing in a world-class climate science environment at Delft University

Qualifications

• PhD required; backgrounds in Climate Science, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science welcomed.
• Solid background in CFD and programming (Python/Fortran/C++).
• Experience with in-situ and remote sensing measurements of atmospheric turbulence and cloud microphysics.
• Desirable experience with RANS or LES models.

Responsibilities

• Co-develop measurement and simulation strategies during field campaigns.
• Analyse measurement and simulation results to understand microphysics-turbulence-radiation interactions in stratocumulus clouds.
• Collaborate across TU Delft and partner institutes; contribute to data management and publications.

Skills

CFD

Python/Fortran/C++

In-situ measurements

Remote sensing

RANS/LES

Education

PhD

Tools

RANS/LES

Job description

TU Delft, via the Geoscience & Remote Sensing department, seeks a PostDoc to advance measuring and simulating stratocumulus clouds within the TurPhyCloud ERC Synergy Project. You will design measurement and simulation strategies, process data, and collaborate with international partners to push cloud microphysics research forward.

You will join a vibrant, interdisciplinary team and contribute to teaching activities while developing in a world-class climate science environment at Delft University