International Scholarships

The Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology at Cologne (Köln) University, Germany is inviting applications for a PhD position in Meteorology. This position is within the project TOSCA (Towards an Optimal-estimation-based Snow Characterization Algorithm) funded by the German Science Foundation and it is available for a three-year period (starting as soon as possible). The goal of … [More Info]

IMPRS-ESM PhD Program: Call for 2008 now open The International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling (IMPRS-ESM), located in Hamburg, Germany, offers fellowships to outstanding students interested in Earth system research. Doctoral students of the IMPRS-ESM contribute to the development, application, and evaluation of a spectrum of Earth system models at different temporal … [More Info]

PhD or Postdoc position for meteorological modelling We are currently seeking a scientist for meso/microscale simulations. The work is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Quantitative precipitation forecast’ (http://www.meteo.uni-bonn.de/projekte/SPPMeteo). The main goal of the project is to examine the influence of the orography and surface conditions associated with mesoscale mountains for convection. The simulations will … [More Info]

The Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (IfT) is intensifying its experimental and theoretical research in the fields of cloud physics and the interactions between aerosol and clouds. In this context we are looking for a PhD student. The position is located at the Leipzig Aerosol and Cloud Interaction Simulator (LACIS) and limited to three years. … [More Info]

The Institute of Remote Sensing and Environmental Physics (IFE/IUP) at the Physics department of the University of Bremen offers a PhD position for 3 years with payment according to TV-L 13 /2 for a PhD on the topic of Development and verification of profile retrieval algorithms to analyse ground-based UV/vis measurements The Institute of Environmental … [More Info]

A three years Ph. D. position is available in the DFG-project “Interactions of the tropical Indian Ocean and the tropical Atlantic Ocean with ENSO” (keyword: TROIA) The IFM-GEOMAR is one of the world wide leading institutes for marine and climate science. The institute has one of its main research foci on the role of the … [More Info]

PhD-Position at IFM-GEOMAR in the Excellence Cluster “The Future Ocean” in the project “The influence of light fluctuations on ocean heating and photosynthesis”. A Master or German Diploma degree in physics, mathematics, meteorology or oceanography is required. The PhD candidate will improve and apply a radiative transfer model based on the Monte-Carlo technique to simulate … [More Info]