<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Dear colleagues,</span><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Our group is moving to the University of Chicago and we will have multiple PhD, postdoc, and research scientist positions for projects on extreme weather, AI+science, climate change/dynamics, and at their intersections. I’d appreciate if you share the ad below with those who might be interested and encourage them to get in touch with me. </span></div><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br>Best regards,<br><br>Pedram Hassanzadeh<br> <br>Associate Professor<br>The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Group (<font color="#0433ff"><a href="http://pedram.rice.edu/">http://pedram.rice.edu</a></font><a href="http://pedram.rice.edu/">/</a>)<br>Department of Mechanical Engineering<br>Department of Earth, Environmental & Planetary Sciences<br>Rice University<br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Our new group at the University of Chicago has multiple positions for Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, and research scientists interested in working on multidisciplinary projects in the following general areas (and at their intersections): <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1) Extreme weather events and climate change (with a focus on dynamics and the extratropical atmospheric circulation), <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2) Scientific deep learning for multi-scale nonlinear dynamical systems (with a focus on developing general, rigorous frameworks for explainability and analysis), <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3) Applications of deep learning to improve analysis, modeling, and prediction of climate variability, weather extremes, and geophysical turbulence (with a focus on subgrid-scale modeling and spatio-temporal forecast/emulation).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We are looking for highly motivated applicants with strong backgrounds in one or more of these areas: climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, applied math, scientific deep learning, numerical analysis, and turbulence physics.<span style="background: yellow;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">All Ph.D. students and researchers will benefit from our group’s involvement in multi-institutional, international collaborative projects such as the Schmidt Futures-supported <a href="https://datawaveproject.github.io/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">DataWave</a> and NSF-supported <a href="https://cssi-gws.github.io/index.html" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">GW-CSSI</a>. They will also benefit from UChicago’s thriving and expanding programs in <a href="https://geosci.uchicago.edu/research/atmospheres-oceans-ice-and-climate/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Climate Science</a>, <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/research/ai-science/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">AI+Science,</a> <a href="https://cam.uchicago.edu/about/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Computational and Applied Math</a>, <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Data Science</a>, and <a href="https://climateengineering.uchicago.edu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Climate Systems Engineering</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Postdoc applicants:</b> More information about the potential projects, required qualifications, and application process can be found <a href="https://hassanzadehresearch.blogs.rice.edu/files/2023/08/Postdoc-positions-climate-extremes-and-AI.pdf" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">here</a>. The start date is flexible (anytime from 1/1/2024 to 1/1/2025). Applications will be reviewed starting 9/15/2023 on a rolling basis. The review will continue until all of the positions are filled. We encourage you to submit your application (or reach out) as soon as possible, even if you are interested in starting dates after the summer of 2024. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">A number of prestigious opportunities at UChicago including the campus-wide <a href="https://aiscience.uchicago.edu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship</a>, the <a href="https://geosci.uchicago.edu/academics/information-for-postdocs/chamberlin-fellowship/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">T. C. Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship</a>, and <a href="https://cam.uchicago.edu/people/#kruskal-instructors" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Kruskal Instructor</a> at the Committee of Computational and Applied Mathematics are available for outstanding applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Research scientist </b><b>positions: </b>Outstanding applicants for the above positions with more than 3 years of postdoc experience will be considered for appointment as research scientists.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Ph.D. applicants for Fall/Spring 2024:</b> More information about the potential projects, required qualifications, and application process can be found <a href="https://hassanzadehresearch.blogs.rice.edu/files/2023/08/PhD-positions-climate-extremes-and-AI.pdf" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">here</a>. Depending on an applicant’s research interests and educational background, they can apply to the Ph.D. programs in Geophysical Sciences (<a href="https://geosci.uchicago.edu/academics/graduate-program-and-admissions/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://geosci.uchicago.edu/academics/graduate-program-and-admissions/</a>), Computational and Applied Mathematics (<a href="https://cam.uchicago.edu/academics/graduate-programs/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://cam.uchicago.edu/academics/graduate-programs/</a>), or other disciplines in UChicago’s Physical Sciences Division (<a href="https://physicalsciences.uchicago.edu/academics/academic-departments/#PhD" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://physicalsciences.uchicago.edu/academics/academic-departments/#PhD</a>).</span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>