Researcher in Climate & Computing

Climate Risk Analysis (CRA) is an expanding research company working on risk quantification of extreme climate/weather events.

CRA is seeking a computing scientist to work in an international, EU-funded Marie Curie project on interacting networks in climate.

Your qualifications

• Degree (MS or equivalent) in computing, statistics or physics
• Between four and five years full-time work experience in industry/academia after degree (PhD holders also less than four years)
• Transnational (coming from outside of Germany) and intersectorial mobilities
• Excellent communication skills (English)

Your work in the project

• Industry-standard software development, including parallelization and GUIs
• Adaptation of statistical algorithms (in collaboration with M. Mudelsee)
• Support for statistics/computer course
• Training of project partners (in-house and travel)

Position

• Starting date: summer 2012
• Duration: two years
• Place: Hannover, Germany (part-time telework possible)
• Gaining competence in climate time series and risk analysis, intersectorial work
• Competitive salary (ca. 50 kEUR/year) plus bonuses
• Extensive covering of research, training and relocation costs

Your application

• Cover letter, CV, reference contacts, photo
• PDF format (preferably one single file)
• Send by 12 May 2012 to jobs@climate-risk-analysis.com under subject "JO-01/12" (later applications may be considered)
• CRA guarantees confidentiality

Contact and more information

• CRA website
• Dr. Manfred Mudelsee, CEO CRA, Phone +49-511-70032891, mudelsee@climate-risk-analysis.com
• Climate Time Series Analysis book
• Climate Time Series Analysis course
• LINC project
• This advertisement JO-01/12 supersedes JO-01/11
• CRA is devoted to excellence in research and does not discriminate against persons on the basis of ethnicity, family status, gender, medical condition, nationality or religion