17 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Hamburg, Germany

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our seismology group at the University of Hamburg.
This position is in the context of the BMBF joint project “ErUM-Wave: Anticipation of 3-dimensional wave fields”. It is embedded in an interdisciplinary collaboration with the “Quantum Universe” Cluster of Excellence and the Gravitational Wave Detection group at the University of Hamburg, with DESY, as well as with the Seismology group at the University of Münster.

The aim of the project is seismic wavefield analysis at small scales around major research facilities like the DESY campus. This involves leveraging innovative Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technology to gain detailed insights from dense spatial sampling of the seismic wave field.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

• research on medieval Hebrew scientific and philosophical terminology:
  • textual studies
  • input and maintenance of research data in the PESHAT database
• coordination of collaborations with external scholars and other projects on external data input and cooperations in digital humanities
• organization of and participation in the projects workshops and conferences, publication of research results

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

In addition to research, associates will be expected to actively participate in the scientific events of the research center and in their organisation.

The successful candidate will conduct research in probability theory. The research will be carried out as part of the DFG Priority Program “Random Geometric Systems” (SPP 2265) and will focus on the study of such systems using Stein’s method and stochastic geometry.

The successful applicant will join the group of Prof. Bester and work on a research project concerned with excitonic effects in 2D materials. The candidate will use our ab-initio approach [1] which combines DFT and configuration interaction to calculate the exciton (X), charged excitons (X, X+), biexciton (XX) properties and their mutual interaction. The candidate will make use of our latest 2D-atomic eective pseudopotentials [2] and our recent force-field [3] (see Figure) to address moiré structures with up to 20,000 atoms. The position is within the vibrant SPP 2244 consortium.

Your research tasks involve the planning, implementation and evaluation of projects, the acquisition of third-party funding, and the regular publication of research results. We are seeking applicants whose research interests fit in with the research foci of the department. These lie in the development and maintenance mechanisms of psychotic symptoms as well as their transfer into innovative interventions. Applicants are also expected to contribute to joint projects of the Institute of Psychology and the Faculty’s thematic focus on Mechanisms of Change.

Teaching comprises 9 LVS (weekly teaching units) and will take place in the newly introduced Bachelor and Master of Science degree programs on the basis of the licensing regulations for psychotherapists of February 14, 2020. It will include teaching the basics of clinical psychology in the areas of phenomenology, classification, epidemiology, etiology and course of mental disorders across the lifespan and conveying skills in psychological intervention and prevention. Teaching will be mainly in form of seminars and is expected to include case presentations, practical demonstrations and exercises.

The project “ICON for coupled carbon cycle climate modelling” (ICON-4C4M) funded through the Extramural Funding programme of the German Weather Service (DWD) aims to integrate state-of-the-art representations of marine (project part ocean at University Hamburg) and terrestrial (project part land at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; MPI-BGC) biogeochemistry into the ICON Earth system model. The project will contribute to an enhanced representation of key Earth system components in ICON for climate science applications and thereby provide new insights into the transient climate response of the Earth system to anthropogenic emissions.

The Project PalMod Phase III is a project between Universität Hamburg and several other German research institutes and universities, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF), to understand Earth system dynamics and variability during the last glacial cycle.

Model simulations in PalMod Phase II with cryosphere-ocean-atmosphere interactions in MPI-ESM have captured some features of the abrupt events of the last deglaciation (Heinrich events, Bølling-Allerød warming, Younger Dryas). Studies of marine sediments show that such abrupt events profoundly affect ocean biogeochemistry. Nevertheless, the cascades of changes in oceanic biogeochemistry have not yet been examined using comprehensive Earth system models with interactive carbon cycle. The planned work will address this knowledge gap. The project will focus on examining the response of the ocean carbon storage and biogeochemical cycles to abrupt events in MPI-ESM projections spanning the last deglaciation and future climate change scenarios with the goal to improve our quantitative understanding of the observed cascades of change.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

 The tasks within the project include the computation of higher order QCD corrections to collider observabales and operator anomalous dimensions as well as phenomenology applications with an eye on the Large Hadron Collider LHC and the forth-coming Electron Ion Collider EIC.

Research associates will be expected primarily to teach and conduct research. The research associate will also have the opportunity to pursue further academic qualifications, in particular a doctoral dissertation. At least one-third of set working hours will be made available for the research associate’s own academic work.

• conduct impactful research in the field of remote sensing and publish the results in peer-reviewed scientific journals
• engage in teaching (2,5 LVS), supporting our commitment to educational excellence
• pursue a doctorate, contributing to our excellent academic environment

The five-year project “BioValCat” (Enhanced Biomass Valorisation by Engineering of Polyoxometalate Catalysts), funded by the ERC Consolitator Grant 2022, aims to enable 100% carbon efficiency from complex biomass by developing innovative POM catalyst-solvent systems for aerobic and anaerobic applications and to develop this into an innovative and widely applicable process technology.

Polyoxometalates (POMs), as a unique class of anionic polynuclear metal-oxo clusters with high structural diversity at the atomic level, are highly promising candidates for the selective oxidation of biomass to organic acids. In the field of homogeneously catalysed, selective biomass conversion, POMs are already used intensively. One example for the potential of POMs is the already commercialised OxFA process, in which biomass is oxidatively converted to formic acid in aqueous systems.

Research associates will be expected primarily to teach and conduct research. The research associate will also have the opportunity to pursue further academic qualifications, in particular a doctoral dissertation. At least one-third of set working hours will be made available for the research associate’s own academic work.

We offer a full-time (PostDoc) research position for 2.5-years as part of the project “Mapping Effects of Environmental Policies (MEEP)” (https://uhh.de/wiso-meep) funded by the Joachim Hertz Stiftung. MEEP seeks to conduct novel quasi-experimental studies on the effects of environmental polices and to assemble an open-science platform featuring interactive maps of the effects of environmental policies. The successful applicant is expected to conduct independent and collaborative research that contributes to the project. This can relate to empirical research in the domain of climate-, energy-, environmental- or labor-economics.