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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">The Department of Hydrogeology at the Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany is offering the
following vacancy within the EU funded Initial Training Network
project “Ecohydrological interfaces as critical hotspots for
transformations of ecosystem exchange fluxes and biogeochemical
cycling” (INTERFACES) as of 1st February 2014:</p>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">PhD student – Early Stage Researcher (m/f), Limited to 3
years</p>
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255);">Subject: Development of optical sensors for measuring
dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide at sediment-water interfaces</p>
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255);">Your duties:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
▪ Development, testing and application of optical sensors for
measuring dissolved oxygen as time-variant key parameter that
controls the spatial fluctuations of aerobic/anaerobic zones at
interfaces such as hyporheic and riparian zones<br
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▪ Application of these sensors in different field conditions in
collaboration with the fellows at the partner institutes</p>
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255);">Your profile:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
▪ Master´s degree in environmental sciences, environmental
engineering, chemistry or related subjects with a strong
background in optical sensor techniques and basic knowledge in
electrical engineering<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
▪ Knowledge in flow and solute transport in porous media<br
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▪ Excellent communication skills, capacity for teamwork,
flexibility and an interest in interdisciplinary research</p>
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255);">Marie Curie requirements for this position:<br
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▪ The applicants should have less than 4 years full-time
equivalent research experience from the award of the degree which
entitles them to undertake a doctorate<br style="box-sizing:
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▪ Applicants can be of any nationality but at the time of
selection must not have resided or carried out their main activity
(e.g. work or studies) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3
years immediately prior to the starting date of the fellowship</p>
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▪ Excellent technical facilities which are without parallel<br
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▪ The freedom you need to bridge the difficult gap between basic
research and close to being ready for application<br
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▪ Work in inter-disciplinary, multinational teams<br
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▪ Excellent links with national and international research
networks<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">
▪ Excellent support and optimal subject-specific and general
training with our HIGRADE graduate school<br style="box-sizing:
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▪ Salary, working hours and terms of employment will be in
accordance with the Marie Curie rules of the European Commission
(ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/)</p>
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255);">Your contact for any questions you may have about the job:<br
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Christian Schmidt - E-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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