Postdoctoral position in climate and health modelling
The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, opens a postdoctoral fellow position in climate and health modelling.
The position is open for candidates who will hold their PhD title by April 30, 2022, and who received their PhD title within two years before that date, that is, not earlier than May 1, 2020.
The application is a two-stage process. In the first stage, the qualification of the applicants will be evaluated based on the provided documents; shortlisted candidates may then be invited for an interview (held by a videoconference). In the second stage, the most qualified applicant will be invited to apply for a fellowship awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The position is for the period of two years, starting from July 1, 2022 (postponement of the starting date may be negotiated). The gross monthly salary will be in the range of 35000 to 40000 Czech crowns (CZK).
We ask the interested persons to submit the following documents:
- cover letter providing the motivation for the application and explaining why the applicant considers herself/himself qualified for the position.
- curriculum vitae,
- list of publications and other relevant research outputs,
- PhD diploma or another certificate of a PhD degree (original official document with English translation)
- names and email addresses of two persons who can provide recommendation.
The application and supporting documentation to be used for the assessment must be in English.
The documents should be sent by email to Dr. Romana Beranová (rber@ufa.cas.cz). The deadline for sending the applications is March 31, 2022.
Research topic: The role of heat early warning systems to reduce heat-related mortality in Europe
Hand by hand with increasing frequency and intensity of heatwaves in Europe, heat early warning systems (HEWSs) have been implemented by local authorities (Casanueva et al. 2019). HEWSs are assumed to be an example of adaptation measures saving both human lives and costs. However, their beneficial effects are not consistent across cities and regions (de’Donato et al. 2015), which suggests a room for improvement of such systems in the methodology as well as in steps following the alert issuance (Pascal et al. 2021).
The goal of this project is better understanding of the ability of HEWSs to prevent heat-related mortality in Europe. Using the mortality dataset available from the MCC Collaborative Research Network and up to date catalogue of HEWSs in Europe collected within TG 3.11 of the COST Action PROCLIAS, we will analyse the association between spatial-temporal changes in heat-related mortality and implementation of HEWSs across Europe. Heat-mortality associations will be assessed using advanced statistical techniques including distributed lag non-linear models (Gasparrini and Leone 2014; Gasparrini et al. 2010) and mixed-effect meta-regression models (Sera et al. 2020).
The candidate should have a strong knowledge of statistical modelling and visualisation of time series data (in R/RStudio). The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr. Aleš Urban and Dr. Jan Kyselý from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and will be involved in their international activities within the COST Action PROCLIAS and MCC.
References:
Casanueva A, Burgstall A, Kotlarski S, et al., 2019. Overview of existing heat-health warning systems in Europe. Int J Environ Res Public Health 16: 2657.
de’ Donato F, Leone M, Scortichini M, et al. 2015. Changes in the effect of heat on mortality in the last 20 years in nine European cities. Results from the PHASE project. Int J Environ Res Public Health 12:15567–15583.
Gasparrini A, Armstrong B, Kenward MG 2010. Distributed lag non-linear models. Stat Med 29 (21): 2224–2234.
Gasparrini A, Leone M 2014. Attributable risk from distributed lag models. BMC Med Res Methodol 14:55.
Pascal. M., Lagarrigue, R., Tabai, A. et al. 2021. Evolving heat waves characteristics challenge heat warning systems and prevention plans. Int J Biometeorol 65:1683–1694.
Sera F, Hashizume M, Honda Y, et al 2020. Air conditioning and heat-related mortality: A multi-country longitudinal study. Epidemiology 779–787.
Postdoctoral position in ionospheric research
The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia, opens a postdoctoral fellow position in vertical coupling in ionosphere.
The position is open for candidates who will hold their PhD title by April 30, 2022, and who received their PhD title within two years before that date, that is, not earlier than May 1, 2020.
The application is a two-stage process. In the first stage, the qualification of the applicants will be evaluated based on the provided documents; shortlisted candidates may then be invited for an interview (held by a videoconference). In the second stage, the most qualified applicant will be invited to apply for a fellowship awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences.
The position is for the period of two years, starting from July 1, 2022 (postponement of the starting date may be negotiated). The gross monthly salary will be in the range of 35000 to 40000 Czech crowns (CZK).
We ask the interested persons to submit the following documents:
- cover letter providing the motivation for the application and explaining why the applicant considers herself/himself qualified for the position.
- curriculum vitae,
- list of publications and other relevant research outputs,
- PhD diploma or another certificate of a PhD degree (original official document with English translation)
- names and email addresses of two persons who can provide recommendation.
The application and supporting documentation to be used for the assessment must be in English.
The documents should be sent by email to Dr. Jan Laštovička (jla@ufa.cas.cz). The deadline for sending the applications is March 31, 2022.
Research topic: Investigation of ionospheric perturbations and vertical coupling between atmospheric layers
A better understanding of ionospheric variability and forcing of the ionosphere from below and above is important both for a basic geophysical research and technological applications, as the ionosphere affects propagation of electromagnetic waves, including radio communications, over the horizon radars and accuracy of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The day-to day variability of the ionosphere and perturbations on short time scales (minutes to several hours) are still difficult to predict.
The scientific objective of the proposed postdoctoral position is to investigate with the ionospheric team of IAP, Prague, ionospheric disturbances caused by atmospheric gravity waves propagating from below, mainly so called medium scale travelling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) observed in the ionosphere due to the interaction of neutral atmosphere with the ionized gas. Another source of TIDs, mostly large scale TIDs, might be auroral processes and ionospheric response to geomagnetic activity. Other perturbations worth to focusing on are spread F and ionospheric response to solar activity.
The applicant will primarily use data obtained from available Ionospheric sounders, continuous HF Doppler sounding systems operated in Czechia, Argentina, Taiwan and South Africa, GNSS receivers and satellites. He/she should be skilled in data processing, analysis, and programing (for example, using MATLAB).