Published: 17 April 2024
Lausanne
100%
Unlimited employment
Université de Lausanne
UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.
A PhD position on the long-term stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet’s kilometre-thick ice is funded for four years as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project ‘FlowState: Melting, hydrology and ice flow at high elevations of the Greenland Ice Sheet’.
The overarching objective of the project is to quantify the impact of high-elevation surface melting upon the ice sheet’s dynamic stability through the 21st century and beyond. The project will measure and then model basal hydrology and ice flow in areas where surface meltwater drains to reach the ice sheet bed through ice which is around a kilometre thick.
This position focuses on using field data to (1) understand the meltwater-forced dynamics in the field area and then (2) upscale that knowledge to other areas of the ice sheet and over longer time periods using remotely-sensed observations of hydrology and ice flow. As part of the first objective, the candidate will be embedded in field campaigns on the ice sheet surface each spring and will be around one month long.
Expected start date in position : 01.09.2024 / to be agreed
Contract length : 1 year, renewable to a maximum of 4 years
Activity rate : 100%
Workplace : Lausanne Mouline (Géopolis)
Most of the PhD student’s time will be dedicated to research, but contributing to some teaching activities is expected and there is the additional possibility of supervising master students. A maximum of 10% of the workload will consist of teaching
support for Bachelor and Master-level courses, and with technical and administrative tasks related to the activities of the Institute.
The employment conditions are available HERE .
We seek an enthusiastic individual who is motivated to work on topics concerning the future stability of the Greenland Ice Sheet. The qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience outlined below summarise the what is needed for this role. They also describe the criteria that we will use to choose the candidate. In your application, please show how you meet these criteria.
Essential criteria:
Desirable criteria:
Prof. Andrew Tedstone
andrew.tedstone@unil.ch
Deadline :20.05.2024
Please, send your full application with all the following in Word or PDF:
Only applications through this website will be taken into account.
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