PhD Researcher (f/m/x) in In4Nile PhD-Cohort: Multi-pollutant spatially explicit water quality modelling: from historical evolution to future scenario assessments

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Contact

Your contact for any questions you may have about the job:
Rohini Kumar (rohini.kumar@ufz.de)

Your application

Please submit your application via our online portal with your cover letter, CV (please omit your photo, age, or marital status) and relevant attachments.

Diversity and Inclusion

The UFZ has a strong commitment to diversity and actively supports equal opportunities for all employees regardless of their origin, religion, ideology, disability, age or sexual identity.
We look forward to applications from people who are open-minded and enjoy working in diverse teams.

Your tasks

• Develop a scalable water-quality modelling framework for the Nile River Basin by leveraging the existing UFZ water-quantity and water-quality modelling system (mHM–MQM) and extending it to represent source-to-sink dynamics of multiple pollutant classes.
• Reconstruct historical and present-day pollutant dynamics across the Nile River Basin, and analyse spatio-temporal multi-pollutant hotspots and their driving factors.
• Conduct scenario-based assessments of future multi-pollutant dynamics under changing hydro-climatic and socio-economic conditions, and evaluate potential adaptation and mitigation strategies.
• Communicate results through scientific publications, presentations, and collaborative work within an interdisciplinary team
  of the In4Nile cohort.

We offer

• Excellent supervision and optimal professional and interdisciplinary qualification through our HIGRADE graduate programme
• The freedom to master even the most demanding challenges between basic research and practical application
• The opportunity to work in interdisciplinary, international teams and benefit from a wide range of perspectives
• Firstclass integration into national and international research networks to work together on global challenges
• Excellent research infrastructure and research data management to optimally support your work
• A wide range of options for balancing care responsibilities and work through our family office
• Competent support and advice for international colleagues arriving at the UFZ from the ‘International Office’
• Special annual payment, capital-forming benefits and subsidised Deutschland-Job-Ticket
• A workplace in a vibrant region with a high life quality and social and cultural diversity

Your profile

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in hydrology, environmental sciences, environmental engineering, geosciences, water resources, or a closely related field.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with experience in environmental, hydrological, or water-quality modelling.
• Proficiency in scientific programming (e.g., Fortran, Python, R) and in handling large-scale datasets.
• Experience and familiarity in working with hydroclimate and socio-economic databases (CMIP/RCM and SSP-RCP).
• Experience with gridded hydrological or water-quality models (e.g., mHM, VIC-3L, PCRGLOB-WB, SWAT, IMAGE-GNM, HYPE, CE-QUAL-W2, or similar).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary research environment.
• Good command of written and spoken English.