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Job Description: The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is allotment of the ETH Domain. It employs about 500 bodies alive on the acceptable use and aegis of the landscapes and habitats and a respon-sible access to administration accustomed hazards. The GIS accumulation of the Research Unit Land Resource Assessment develops and accouterments abstracts models and methods for able accumulator and retrieval of multilingual attributes aegis abstracts and is alms a

You will advance the abstract foundations and an accomplishing abstraction for an appliance to action spatial queries in chatty terms, analyze its accomplishing as a software antiquity and broadcast your after-effects in an all-embracing accurate context. You will be enrolled as a PhD apprentice at the University of Zurich.




Your qualifications: Master amount in computer science, geoinformatics, linguistics or a accompanying domain; accustomed with Semantic Web technologies (OWL) and with software development (Java, J2EE); absolute accurate assignment style; acceptable abilities in German or French. Experience in relational databases as able-bodied as in GIS are an advantage.
Application Deadline 15July2010

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Job Description:Our association more depends on circuitous systems, such as the Internet, traffic, electrical ability grids, amusing networks, ecological networks, etc. Circuitous networks are acclimated to archetypal these systems. Robustness of networks adjoin targeted attacks is of appropriate absorption for archetype to epidemiologists who demand to breach up ache manual by targeted vaccinations, or to badge armament back abolition agitator and added bent networks.



The aboriginal aim of the activity is to advance about applicative methods for arrangement access based on the affiliation amid the network’s cartography and its robustness to awful attacks. Novel bioinspired access techniques will be acclimated to achieve this task. Able means to immunize and assure amiable networks should be found. Another ambition of the activity is development of able advance strategies with the focus on evolving schemes for bent arrangement disruption.

The activity is adjourned by Swiss National Science Foundation and will be done in abutting accord with Prof. Marco Tomassini from the University of Lausanne.

Requirements:

Applicants should accept a Diploma or Master amount in physics or accompanying area, able programming abilities and absorption in after simulations and interdisciplinary topics.

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Our accumulation is developing and applying after methods and simulations to abounding altered areas alignment from accepted statistical physics, sociophysics and circuitous fluids to actual science and geomorphology. The accumulation is bunch and through abundant assortment of capacity offers artistic ambiance and abounding possibilities for interdisciplinary collaborations.
Application Deadline 30June2010

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The Paul Scherrer Institut is a centre for multi-disciplinary research and one of the world’s leading user laboratories. With its 1200 employees it belongs as an autonomous institution to the Swiss ETH domain and concentrates its activities on solid-state research and material sciences, elementary particle and astrophysics, energy and environmental research as well as on biology and medicine.

The Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) is engaged in air quality and climate research by field studies, smog chamber experiments and chemical transport models.

We are offering a PhD Student position in the field of Air quality modeling. The chemical composition of particulate matter was recently measured and analyzed in several field campaigns at different locations in unprecedented detail. This provides a unique opportunity to evaluate 3-dimensional photochemical models including emissions, meteorological transport, gasphase and aerosol chemistry.


The challenges are on the one hand to get the boundary layer meteorological processes right on the other hand to get the emissions right. Recent research has shown that one also needs to revisit the assumptions concerning the formation processes leading to secondary organic aerosols.

The project will focus on aerosol formation processes in Switzerland and Europe. An intensive collaboration is planned with another PhD student focusing on meteorology and with a Canadian research group. A competitive Salary will be available.

Your tasks
Use the meteorological models MM5 and/or the Alpine Model (aLMo) in combination with the chemical transport model CAMx in various configurations
Improve the gaseous emissions, e.g. concerning biogenic sesqui-terpene emissions
Improve the primary aerosol emissions (especially from domestic wood burning)
Use and/or develop new schemes to represent the secondary organic aerosol formation in an appropriate manner (2)
Test and evaluate the model versus various available and new data sets
Present the results at workshops, conferences and in peer-reviewed journals

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You have a master/diploma degree in atmospheric science, meteorology, physics, chemistry or environmental science. Ideally, you already have some experience in meteorological or air quality modeling. Programming and computer skills are crucial. Good communication skills in English are required and in German beneficial.

We are looking forward to your application

Sebnem Andreani and André Prévôt
Paul Scherrer Institut
Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry
CH- 5232 Villigen-PSI
Switzerland

Please send your application to:
sebnem.andreani {a - t } psi.ch

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