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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b>Postdoctoral and PhD positions available at Satellite Research Centre at NTU Singapore</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Applications are invited from talented physicists and engineers to join the Earth remote sensing and atmospheric modelling group at the Satellite Research Centre (SaRC) in the School of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. SaRC currently has two postdoc positions open for qualified candidates to work on Global Climate Models to study atmosphere dynamics or to develop new small satellite (Cubesat and microsatellite)
mission concepts for atmospheric imaging missions. SaRC operates the VELOX CI satellite for GPS Radio Occultation studies and is actively working towards developing a regional space weather application for South-East Asia. Applicants who have a PhD in Physical
sciences or Engineering, experience working with atmospheric models and satellite datasets are encouraged to apply. Applications are also invited from candidates with experience in working with space hardware, space instrumentation, optical and imaging systems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Desired Requirements:</b></p>
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</span></span></span>PhD or M. Eng/MS in Engineering or Physical Sciences.</p>
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</span></span></span>Interest in Atmospheric and Ionospheric modelling.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Experience working with Satellite datasets.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Experience in Matlab/Python/IDL programing skills
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Strong analytical ability, communication skills, creativity and self-motivation.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Good interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and also in a team environment.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For Instrumentation Position:</b></p>
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</span></span></span>Experience in Optical Instrumentation.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span>Clean room experience.</p>
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</span></span></span>Experience working with Satellite hardware.</p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0cm"><b>PhD positions are available to work on:
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span>Thermosphere gravity wave studies using simulations from the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model with Thermosphere Ionosphere Extension (WACCM-X) and observations from upcoming NASA GOLD and ICON missions.</p>
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<span style="">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span>An equatorial CubeSat constellation for continuous Ionospheric monitoring of the South East Asia region. The student will work to develop algorithms for radio occultation measurement
retrievals, TEC calculation and identifying common volume measurements with ground based GPS receivers. The PhD student is expected to gain an insight into the various subsystems of a spacecraft and work closely with the engineering team at SaRC.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PhD applications for August 2018 semester is due before January 31<sup>st</sup>. Interested applicants are encouraged to get in touch with Dr. Amal Chandran at the earliest.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Application Procedure:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Interested Candidates please send your CV/resume together with a cover letter to:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Asst. Prof. Amal Chandran</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Director, Satellite Research Centre.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nanyang Technological University,<br>
50 Nanyang Avenue, Block S2.1, Singapore 639798</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>E-mail Address for sending applications:</b>
<a href="achandran@ntu.edu.sg">achandran@ntu.edu.sg</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#3B3838">Established in 1981, the
<span class="bold1">SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (EEE)</span> </span>
<a href="http://www.eee.ntu.edu.sg/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#3B3838">http://www.eee.ntu.edu.sg</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#3B3838">
</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#3B3838">is one of the founding Schools of the Nanyang Technological University. Built on a culture of excellence, the School is renowned for its high academic standards and research.
With more than 150 faculty members and an enrolment of more than 4,000, of which about 1,000 are graduate students, it is one of the largest EEE schools in the world
<span class="A4"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#3B3838">and ranks 6th in the field of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subjects.</span></span></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#181C62">Associate Director, Satellite Research Centre</span></p>
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