Assisstant Professor (POST-DOC) at the Atmospheric Physics Department

CITY: Warsaw                                                                                               

POSITION:  Assisstant Professor (POST-DOC) at the Atmospheric Physics Department

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: Earth Sciences, Physics

NOTICE DATE:  20 May  2025 r.                                                                   

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION:   15 June 2025 r.                                                   

WEBPAGE LINK:   https://www.igf.edu.pl/kariera.php

KEY WORDS: atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers, air-sea interactions, stratification, diurnal cycle, in-situ measurements, energy and momentum fluxes

DESCRIPTION

Job description – a summary of tasks:

POST-DOC will perform research about atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers with measuremetns conducted using Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV) as well as analyzing data from atmospheric and oceanic circulation models and satellite data

Specific tasks of a POST-DOC will include:

  • Integration of measurement equipment (meteorological measurements) with available UAV platforms;
  • Quantitative analysis of an impact of sensor placement on data quality;
  • Qualitative analysis of UAV flight parameters on data quality;
  • Qualitative analysis of available, auxiliary measurements on quality of collected data;
  • Preparation of recommendation for UAV-based atmospheric measurements to ensure optimal quality and creation of the means of implementation of said recommendations (algorithms, software);
  • Presentation of results on seminars and scientific conferences;
  • Preparation of publications based on research outcomes.

Requirements for a candidate:

  • Doctoral degree in Earth Sciences, Physics, Engineering (atmospheric physics, physical oceanography, meteorology, climatology or related);
  • Advanced knowledge (documented) of atmospheric physics and/or physical oceanography, in particular related to boundary layer dynamics
  • Experience in conducting measurements related to atmospheric physics or physical oceanography, in particular knowledge of measurement validation and data quality assessment
  • Knowledge about methods of data collection using aerial vehicles and their limitations;
  • Knowledge about sensor quality assessment and calibration methods;
  • Experience with field measurements, in particular time-limited field experiments
  • Excellent knowledge of typical data formats used in meteorological and oceanographic research (netCDF, HDF)
  • Knowdledge about numerical modelling methods applied to atmospheric and/or oceanic circulations as well as limitations of such data;
  • Good programming skills (MATLAB, Python, NCL, IDL or related)
  • Fluency in English (speaking, reading and writing)
  • Driver’s licence

* In accordance with NCN requirements, only a person who has obtained a doctoral degree from an entity other than the one where the position is planned to be filled no earlier than 7 years prior to the year of employment in the project may be accepted for a post-doc position. This period may be extended by the time of being on long-term (more than 90 days) documented sickness benefits or rehabilitation benefits due to incapacity for work during this period. In addition, the number of months spent on leave for the care and upbringing of children granted under the terms of the Labor Code may be added to this period, and in the case of women – 18 months for each child born or adopted.

In addition, in accordance with the requirements of NCN, an employed person shall not, during the period of drawing this remuneration, draw other remuneration from funds granted as direct costs from research projects financed under NCN competitions, and shall not, during the period of drawing this remuneration, draw remuneration from another employer under an employment contract, including from an employer based outside the territory of Poland.

Conditions of employment:

  • Employment for maximum of 24 months.
  • Compensation: ok 10.000,00 PLN brutto / month (about 7200 PLN net).
  • Full time employment.
  • Employment since 23 June 2025.
  • In accordance with the terms and conditions of NCN, during the period of employment, the post-doc may not receive any other remuneration in any form from NCN funds and remuneration from any other employer under an employment contract, including an employer based outside the territory of Poland.

Additional Information:

The position is funded by the NCN OPUS 23 grant nr UMO-22022/47/B/ST10/02892 title: „Local coupling of atmosphere and ocean on diurnal time scale in various mesoscale circulation regimes.”

Duration of the whole project is 48 months. The goal of the project is quantitative analysis of an impact of air-sea interactions on diurnal evolution of atmospheric and oceanic boundary layers in various atmospheric circulation regims over open ocean (sea) as well as in a coastal zone.

Research will be carried out under supervision of:

dr Dariusz Baranowski

dbaranowski@igf.edu.pl

Instytut Geofizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Księcia Janusza 64,

01-452 Warszawa, Polska

Required documents:

  • cover letter
  • a scan or photocopy of a document confirming candidate has a PhD degree,
  • a resume, including scientific, educational and organizational accomplishments, and a particular reference to candidate’s experience in conduction atmospheric or oceanographic measurements (resume must include email addresses of two senior scientific that can provide references)
  • information on scientific achievements (including a list of publications), awards and scientific internships.
  • electronic versions of the two most important publications (or typescripts of unpublished works) that the candidate considers representative of his/her scientific achievements;
  • other relevant documents (at the candidate’s discretion)

Applications for the Competitions should be submitted electronically by 15 June 2025. until 16.00 CET to: kariera@igf.edu.pl with the subject line stating: „POST-DOC OPUS-24”.

Selected candidates may be invited for an interview via electronic means of audio and video communication.

The Institute of Geophysics PAS reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.

For additional information, please contact:

dr Dariusz Baranowski,

Instytut Geofizyki PAN, Księcia Janusza 64,

tel. +48 22 6915741

e-mail: dbaranowski@igf.edu.pl

Please include the following clause in your documents:

“I consent to the processing of my personal data by the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw, for recruitment purposes. Personal data will be processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation on data protection OJ. EU.L.2016.119.1 of May 4, 2016). At the same time, I consent to the processing of my personal data for future recruitment.”

Assistant Professor (Post-doc) at the Department of Magnetism.

CITY: Warsaw

INSTITUTION: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

POSITION: Assistant Professor (Post-doc) at the Department of Magnetism.

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: Earth sciences, Physics, Applied Mathematics

NOTICE DATE: 16.05.2025.                                                                   

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF BIDS: 30.05.2025

WEBSITE LINK: https://www.igf.edu.pl/kariera.php

KEY WORDS: Geomagnetic field, geomagnetic reversals/excursions, hydromagnetic dynamo, induction equation, Navier-Stokes equation, magnetohydrodynamics, non-equilibrium turbulence.

DESCRIPTION: The candidate will join the group carrying out the NCN OPUS project UMO-2023/49/B/ST10/03412 entitled. “Geodynamo from nonequilibrium turbulent wave field”.

Job Description.

Application of the fully three-dimensional open-source code Dedalus 3 for solving the hydro-magnetic dynamo problem under the anelastic approximation in spherical geometry, including the effects of differential rotation, gravity and density stratification, with different types of thermal boundary conditions; highly demanding numerical simulations with very high resolution in 3D; numerical modeling of theoretically obtained, reduced mean field equations within the scope of the renormalization approach.

Title of the NCN project

OPUS project UMO-2023/49/B/ST10/03412 entitled. “Geodynamo from nonequilibrium turbulent wave field”.

Requirements

  1. Doctoral degree in physics, mathematics or engineering.
  2. Programming skills, in particular knowledge of numerical methods used for solving partial differential equations.
  3. Experience in numerical simulations and solving PDE’s with numerical methods documented by at least one publication.
  4. Good knowledge of electromagnetism and fluid dynamics.
  5. Good knowledge of English.

* In accordance with NCN requirements, only a person who has obtained a doctoral degree from an entity other than the one where the position is planned to be filled no earlier than 7 years prior to the year of employment in the project may be accepted for a post-doc position. This period may be extended by the time of being on long-term (more than 90 days) documented sickness benefits or rehabilitation benefits due to incapacity for work during this period. In addition, the number of months spent on leave for the care and upbringing of children granted under the terms of the Labor Code may be added to this period, and in the case of women – 18 months for each child born or adopted.

In addition, in accordance with the requirements of NCN, an employed person shall not, during the period of drawing this remuneration, draw other remuneration from funds granted as direct costs from research projects financed under NCN competitions, and shall not, during the period of drawing this remuneration, draw remuneration from another employer under an employment contract, including from an employer based outside the territory of Poland.

Conditions of employment:

1. the amount of employment funds is 11 667 PLN gross/month.

2. stage dimension: full time

3. period of employment – 42 months

4. employment is planned from 01.07.2025

5. In accordance with the terms and conditions of NCN, during the period of employment, the post-doc may not receive any other remuneration in any form from NCN funds and remuneration from any other employer under an employment contract, including an employer based outside the territory of Poland.

Additional information

The project is financed within the framework of the NCN OPUS project No.                                    UMO-2023/49/B/ST10/03412, entitled: “Geodynamo from nonequilibrium turbulent wave field”.

It is well known that a field of random waves in a fluid of non-zero resistivity is capable of exciting a large-scale magnetic field through creation of an electromotive force which leads to exponential growth of magnetic energy until the growing Lorentz force reacts back upon the wave field, leading to a saturated state. It is generally found that in the limit of vanishing resistivity of the fluid the fast-dynamos with finite growth rate have a pathological structure, non-differentiable wherever they are non-zero; the applicability of fast-dynamo theory to natural physical systems is then questionable.

The aim of this project is to relax standard simplifying assumptions of stationarity and homogeneity of turbulence and apply recently identified by the PI fast-dynamo mechanisms to the geodynamo theory. These mechanisms are fully dynamic, i.e. incorporate the effect of the Lorentz force on the flow (hitherto scarcely considered in theoretical approaches), for which the growing magnetic field remains smooth during the whole dynamo process. This results from a random superposition of distinct waves, such as the so-called MAC (Magnetic-Archimedean-Coriolis) and Rossby waves known to be dynamically very important in the Earth’s core, and from co-existance of the kinetic and cross-helicities in developed non-equilibrium turbulence. Particularly effective is the wave-beating effect or non-stationarity of the turbulence wave field, which leads to very fast amplification of the mean magnetic field. Such mechanisms not only efficiently amplify the magnetic field, but also lead to slow time dependence of the large scale electromotive force and turbulent magnetic diffusivity and through that provide an interesting and potentially promising explanation of the well-known dynamical process of geomagnetic excursions/reversals. The results of the project can therefore provide highly desired picture of a turbulent process, which could be responsible for the observed long-term behaviour of the geomagnetic field.

The theory is based on nonlinear analysis of the Navier-Stokes and electromagnetic induction equations, under some simplifying assumptions e.g. regarding the statistical properties of turbulent stirring or stochastic evolution of velocity streamlines. Sophisticated methods are necessary, such as renormalization and path integrals, weakly nonlinear and asymptotic approaches, supplied by numerical modelling of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence.

The work will be carried out under the supervision of:

Dr hab. Krzysztof Mizerski

Emal: kamiz@igf.edu.pl

Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Ksiecia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw, Poland

Required documents:

  • cover letter
  • a scan or photocopy of a university degree,
  • a scan or a photocopy of the diploma of the Ph.D. degree
  • a resume with particular reference to information on numerical modelling of partial differential equations and research in fluid mechanics.
  • information on scientific achievements (including a list of publications), awards and scientific internships.
  • electronic versions of the two most important publications (or typescripts of unpublished works) that the candidate considers representative of his/her scientific achievements;
  • other relevant documents (at the candidate’s discretion)

Applications for the Competition should be sent by 30.05.2025 to:   kariera@igf.edu.pl  with the subject of the message stating: “OPUS G74 Assistant Professor”.

Selected candidates may be invited for an interview via electronic means of audio and video communication.

The Institute of Geophysics PAS reserves the right to close the competition without selecting a candidate.

For additional information, please contact:

Dr. hab.  Krzysztof Mizerski, Institute of Geophysics PAS,

Księcia Janusza 64, phone: +48 22 6915904

e-mail: kamiz@igf.edu.pl

Please include the following clause in your documents:

I consent to the processing of my personal data by the Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences Księcia Janusza 64, 01-452 Warsaw, for recruitment purposes. Personal data will be processed on the basis of Article 6(1)(a) of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation on data protection OJ. EU.L.2016.119.1 of May 4, 2016). At the same time, I consent to the processing of my personal data for future recruitment.

Assistant Professor position at the Seismology Department

CITY:  Kraków                                                                                                                   

POSITION:  Assistant Professor position at the Seismology Department

DISCIPLINE:  Earth and environmental sciences

POSTED:  April 28th, 2025

EXPIRES:  May 20th, 2025

WEBSITE www.igf.edu.pl 

KEY WORDS:  seismology, earthquake forecasting, seismic hazard

JOB DESRIPTION

The Department of Seismology of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is looking for outstanding candidates for the position of assistant professor.

The Department of Seismology of the Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is looking for outstanding candidates for the position of assistant professor to work in an international team dealing with the issues of seismic hazard and earthquake forecasting. Scientific research in the field of earthquake forecasting is a very dynamically developing topic in the Department of Seismology. In this area, the research group from the Department closely cooperates with scientists from several leading centers in Europe and non-European countries. The selected candidate will study the phenomenon of precursory clustering of seismicity preceding a large earthquake, build, develop and test forecasting algorithms based on this method and develop hybrid approaches combining different forecasting algorithms. Active participation in national and international projects as well as initiative in applying for projects linked to the research area will also be expected.

Requirements for candidates:

  • PhD in geophysics, Earth sciences or related sciences;
  • Experience and documented scientific achievements in the field of seismology, seismic hazard, particularly in earthquake forecasting, developing and testing forecasting algorithms.
  • Documented knowledge of mathematics and specifically probability calculus and mathematical statistics.
  • Excellence skills in programming (Matlab, Python).
  • Ability to work independently and in the international team.
  • Command of English at C2 level.

1. Expected remuneration approximately PLN 7,500.00 gross

3. Full-time employment

The candidate will join an international team implementing national and international, scientific, research and development and infrastructure projects. He will work scientifically at the Department of Seismology of the IGF PAN at the Department’s headquarters in Kraków. Other domestic and foreign delegations are also possible.

Required documents:

  • CV with particular emphasis on information about scientific, educational and organizational achievements,
  • document confirming obtaining a doctoral degree
  • letter of motivation
  • other documents relevant to the case (at the candidate’s discretion)

More information is available from Stanisław Lasocki email: lasocki@igf.edu.pl

Form of offers:

Application documents should be sent until May 20th,2025

to the email address: kariera@igf.edu.pl , by entering the subject of the message: “Assistant professor at the Department of Seismology”.

Please include the clause in the CV

I agree to the processing of personal data contained in my job offer for the needs necessary to carry out the recruitment process carried out by Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences with its registered office at 64 Księcia Janusza,01-452 Warsaw, Poland,  in accordance with art. 6 par. 1 lit. a Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (general data protection regulation). At the same time, I consent to the processing of my personal data for the purposes of future recruitment.