Postdoc in Sea spray aerosols and cloud formation at Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University

A post-doctoral position focusing on sea spray aerosols, their atmospheric ageing, and ability to act as seeds for cloud formation is available at Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University starting June 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is for 2 years.

This work will be carried out within the framework of the Horizon Europe Cluster 5 project CleanCloud and in relation to the Center for Chemistry of Clouds at Aarhus University.

The importance of sea spray aerosol for aerosol-cloud interactions is expected to increase as anthropogenic aerosol emissions decrease and we enter a post-fossil-world.

CleanCloud, aims to quantify and understand regional and temporal effects of processes related to aerosol-cloud interactions and how they will evolve in the transition to the post-fossil regime. 

The post doc project will focus on the generation and ageing sea spray aerosol using the AEGOR sea spray simulation tank and the atmospheric simulation chamber AURA. State of the art instrumentation including scanning particle mobility particle sizers (SMPS), high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometry (HR-TOF-AMS), proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-TOF) and a CCN counter will be used. More information about the laboratories is available here.

The project will be carried out in a dynamic, ambitious, and interdisciplinary environment in close collaboration with collaborators at Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Stockholm University and will link to activities in the Center for Chemistry of Clouds at Department of Chemistry at Aarhus University.

The place of work is Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

For further information please contact Prof. Merete Bilde: tel 24 44 71 38, mail bildechem.au.dk, or Manager Ditte Thomsen: mail ditte.thchem.au.dk.

Application procedure

Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the appointment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. All applicants will be notified whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee, and each applicant is given the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that concerns him/her self. Once the recruitment process is completed a final letter of rejection is sent to the deselected applicants.

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Formalities and salary range

Natural Sciences refers to the Ministerial Order on the Appointment of Academic Staff at Danish Universities under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

The application must be in English and include a curriculum vitae, degree certificate, a complete list of publications, a statement of future research plans and information about research activities, teaching portfolio and verified information on previous teaching experience (if any). Guidelines for applicants can be found here.

Appointment shall be in accordance with the collective labour agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. Further information on qualification requirements and job content may be found in the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff at Danish Universities.

Salary depends on seniority as agreed between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and the Confederation of Professional Associations.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants.

Research activities will be evaluated in relation to actual research time. Thus, we encourage applicants to specify periods of leave without research activities, in order to be able to subtract these periods from the span of the scientific career during the evaluation of scientific productivity.

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Aarhus University also offers a Junior Researcher Development Programme targeted at career development for postdocs at AU. You can read more about it here.

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Aarhus University

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