Postdoc in Water and Pollutant Flows from Land to Sea

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Built Environment

Job description

Water on land moves and can spread environmental pollutants from different sources and through different flow paths on its way to the sea. The flows go through soil water and groundwater as well as surface water. In order to understand the flow variations and changes over time, it is important to decipher the role and importance of the different water paths for runoff and spread of pollutants through the landscape to the coast and sea. It is also important to determine how well and with what degree of certainty/uncertainty we can quantify and predict water and pollutant flows under different current and future conditions on land and in the sea and climate. As a postdoctoral fellow, you will study these questions, through synthesis of different types of data, and data-driven and process-based modeling with a focus on the Baltic Sea and its whole catchment area. Central tasks also include to produce and publish research articles in high-quality journals and present research results at national and international conferences.

Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree. This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, which is the working language for international publishing and presentation of research.
• We would like you to have documented research expertise in synthesis, and data-driven and process-based modelling and interpretation of large amounts of hydrological, climate and other related types of data.
• excellent ability to publish relevant research in high-quality international journals. 

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline.
• Documented experience in relevantly structuring and openly publishing new scientific data syntheses.
• You have an interest in and good ability to orally present research results internally and externally at national and international conferences and workshops.
• As a person, you have both good collaborative abilities, can work independently.
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality

Great emphasis will be placed on personal skills.

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The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copies of diplomas and grades, primarily from your PhD studies, translated into English or Swedish if the original documents were not issued in either of these languages. Alternatively, if you have not yet fully completed your PhD, a brief statement, max. one page long, with the date when the PhD thesis is planned to be completed and defended, as well as the working title of the thesis and references for published articles and/or manuscripts included in the thesis.
• A brief account, max. two pages long, of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, two years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

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