Postdoctoral Fellowship (13) at University of Hamburg, Germany

Following our recent work on ultrafast chiroptical switching (Nature 630, 109–115 (2024)), the student will have the exciting opportunity to expand this research towards controlling the chiral properties of molecules (including chiral electronic currents, spin currents, enantioselective charge-directed reacticity) at the most extreme timescales (from few-femtoseconds down to attoseconds). The student will:

1. realise spectral and polarisation shaping of broadband and tuneable UV /VUV sources
2. measure time-dependent chiral responses in electronically excited chiral molecules via PECD, PXCD, MOCD and vectorial interferometry approaches
3. control the chiral-optical response of chiral molecules via electronic coherences and use chiral light to establish similar protocols in achiral molecules
4. work in close collaboration with our theory partners to study charge and spin dynamics in chiral molecules

These goals will be pursued in collaboration with internationally renowned partners in ultrafast science and chirality within the Trilogy Network. The PhD project includes and funds two 3-months research stays in partner institutions.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

• support project management, strategic planning, code review procedures, and coordination with the Einstein Telescope Collaboration, ETO, and partner projects
• initiate and contribute to workshops with European expert groups on specific ET noise sources and modelling assumptions
• work with project partners to add new noise sources and functionality, with priorities including control noise, scattered light, and advanced Newtonian-noise models
• develop an accessible web-based interface for plotting ET noise budgets and varying key detector parameters, aligned with traceable review and repository workflows
• verify, test, document, and review existing ET noise-budget models in pygwinc, including seismic noise, Newtonian noise, suspension and coating thermal noise, and stray-light noise
• develop a robust, well-documented, and broadly accessible software framework for Einstein Telesco noise budgeting based on pygwinc

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities. They may also pursue doctoral studies outside of working duties. 

Within PREDICT-NN this PhD position will focus on predicting the seismic wavefield at depth using surface seismic measurements and local site proxies. Responsibilities include collecting and preparing datasets from the KiK-net observation network as well as developing and implementing an appropriate machine learning architecture to predict the ground motion at depth. A key task will be the robust estimation of corresponding uncertainties. The position will collaborate with national and international partners to validate prediction capabilities against real-world data from testbeds such as the Black Forest Observatory. The research will contribute to reducing reliance on borehole sensors and optimizing approaches for NN reduction in the Einstein Telescope.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of geophysics, machine learning, and gravitational wave science, directly contributing to the next-generation gravitational wave detectors.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

Your core responsibility is to pursue your research project that fits the overall comparative research profile of UWA. You will actively contribute to the cluster’s interdisciplinary Graduate School and collaborative research activities. Activities include participation in research meetings, organising scholarly events and developing relevant networks. 

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

Your core responsibility is to pursue your research project that fits the overall comparative research profile of UWA. You will actively contribute to the cluster’s interdisciplinary Graduate School and collaborative research activities. Activities include participation in research meetings, organising scholarly events and developing relevant networks. 

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.

The primary duties include teaching courses amounting to 4 contact hours per week in the field of computer science at Universität Hamburg.

The research activities are situated in the field of software engineering, with a particular focus on secure software engineering for AI-integrated systems and software engineering for edge AI. The successful candidate is expected to actively contribute to academic research projects with the aim of developing their own research results and publishing them at international conferences.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities. They may also pursue doctoral studies outside of working duties.

Theoretical and computational research on electronic correlations in functionalized graphene on SiC, with a focus on numerical simulations at the interface between theory and experiment. The project combines ab initio approaches with model-based many-body methods. The position offers the possibility to pursue a doctoral degree.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities. They may also pursue doctoral studies outside of working duties.

Doctoral candidates are members of the structured doctoral program of the School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS), which provides high-quality, interdisciplinary, and internationally oriented training.

As the region which is experiencing the most rapid warming on Earth, the Arctic is undergoing dramatic transformations, including the thawing of permafrost and sea ice loss. This project aims to deepen our understanding of how small-scale inhomogeneities in surface characteristics and extreme weather events shape large-scale climate dynamics in the Arctic and influence the broader global climate system. Through an integrated approach that brings together climate modeling, field research, laboratory experiments, and observational data, we explore critical interactions that may give rise to nonlinear behavior in Arctic climate processes.

Extreme weather events such as heatwaves and storms and their impact on permafrost stability and stored carbon are a central focus of this research. Field studies in Greenland’s tundra, combined with laboratory experiments, will provide insights into how these extreme conditions accelerate permafrost thaw and trigger the release of greenhouse gases. The findings will contribute to more accurate estimates of how such events affect long-term carbon feedback mechanisms in the Arctic.

The selected candidate will investigate the influence of extreme weather events on CO2 flux dynamics in Arctic tundra using eddy covariance land-atmosphere flux data. The selected candidate will conduct and support micrometeorological measurements using an eddy covariance system during expeditions to Disko Island in West-Greenland. Duties will also include the processing and quality control of the eddy covariance data from West Greenland, as well as the compilation of eddy covariance datasets from other Arctic tundra sites for the synthesis of circumpolar CO2 fluxes. A key part of the position involves the in-depth statistical analysis of large circumpolar eddy covariance datasets to identify both short- and long-term impacts of extreme weather events on CO2 fluxes. The candidate will further be expected to synthesize and interpret the results, publish findings in international peer-reviewed journals, and present them at project meetings and international conferences.

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

Your core responsibility is to pursue your research project that fits the overall comparative research profile of UWA. You will actively contribute to the cluster’s interdisciplinary Graduate School and collaborative research activities. Activities include participation in research meetings, organising scholarly events and developing relevant networks.