项目介绍

2025年4月19日

A position as a PhD Research Fellow in Meteorology/ Climate Science is available at the Department of Geoscience in the Section for Meteorology and Oceanography.

No one can be appointed for more than one PhD Research Fellowship period at the University of Oslo.

Starting date no later than 1st of September.

The fellowship period is 3 years.

A fourth year may be considered with a workload of 25 % that may consist of teaching, supervision duties, and/or research assistance. This is dependent upon the qualification of the applicant and the current needs of the department.
 

More about the position / Project description

The PhD fellow will join BeyondCloudLab, a project comprised of an international team of researchers from ETH-Zürich, the Paul Scherrer Institute and UiO that will leverage weather modification techniques to enhance our understanding of aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions, ice crystal growth, precipitation initiation and cloud seeding. It is expected that the PhD fellow will take part in three winter field campaigns in Switzerland, where they will be responsible for conducting broadband and spectrally resolved measurements of cloud radiative properties and assist with flying a tethered balloon platform. The successful candidate will use the collected data to investigate the impact of aerosol perturbations on cloud radiative properties in a natural laboratory setting. The PhD fellow will work in close collaboration with the entire BeyondCloudLab team including 4 PhD students and 2 Postdocs.Colourbox

What skills are important in this role?/ Qualifications / Competence / Selection criteria 

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition to be among Europe’s leading communities for research, education and innovation. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.
 

• Master’s degree in meteorology or a related field 
• Foreign completed degree (M.Sc.-level) corresponding to a minimum of four years in the Norwegian educational system
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English and ideally also a Scandinavian language. 

Desired qualifications:

• Prior experience with analysis of observational remote sensing data sets and/or numerical model output related to cloud properties is desirable.
• Strong computational skills, and ideally experience with commonly used programming languages in the field (Python, MATLAB, IDL, Fortran, etc).
• Prior experience working in the field or other high stress environments.
• Outgoing and eager to work in a team setting.
• Outdoorsy and a propensity for cold weather.

Candidates without a master’s degree have until 20 June 2025 to complete the final exam.

Grade requirements:
The norm is as follows:

• the average grade point for courses included in the Bachelor’s degree must be C or better in the Norwegian educational system
• the average grade point for courses included in the Master’s degree must be B or better in the Norwegian educational system
• the Master’s thesis must have the grade B or better in the Norwegian educational system
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English evt. and a Scandinavian language. 
• English requirements for applicants from outside of EU/ EEA countries and exemptions from the requirements:

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

The fellowship requires admission to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The application to the PhD programme must be submitted to the department no later than two months after taking up the position. For more information see:

We offer / We can offer you / Why should you choose us?

• Exciting and meaningful tasks in an organization with an important societal mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promote sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development.
• Committed colleagues in a good working environment. ALTERNATIVELY. A pleasant and stimulating work environment ALTERNATIVELY: Own text
• Good welfare schemes.
• Opportunity of up to 1.5 hours a week of exercise during working hours.
• A workplace with good development and career opportunities. 
• Membership in the Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway’s best pension schemes with beneficial mortgages and good insurance schemes.
• Salary in position as Doctoral Research Fellow, position code 1017 in salary range NOK 536 200 – 579 700, depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2 percent is deducted in statutory contributions to the State Pension Fund.

Read more about the benefits of working in the public sector at Employer Portal.

Inclusive worklife and diversity at UiO

Inclusion and diversity are a strength. The University of Oslo has a personnel policy objective of achieving a balanced gender composition. Furthermore, we want employees with diverse professional expertise, life experience and perspectives.

If there are qualified applicants with disabilities, employment gaps or immigrant background, we will invite at least one applicant from each of these categories to an interview.

We hope that you will apply for the position. 

More information about gender equality initiatives at UiO can be found here.

Application

Your application should include:

• Cover letter – statement of motivation and research interests
• CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work – scientific publications)
• Copies of the original Bachelor and Master’s degree diploma, transcripts of records and 
• Optional: Letters of recommendation
• Documentation of English proficiency
• List of publications and academic work that the applicant wishes to be considered by the evaluation committee
• Names and contact details of 2-3 references (name, relation to candidate, e-mail and telephone number)
   

Application with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge, click “Apply for the position”.

When applying for the position, we ask you to retrieve your education results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your education results are not available through Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your transcripts or grades. Please note that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Interviews with the best qualified candidates will be arranged.

General information

The best qualified candidates will invited for interviews. 

Applicant lists can be published in accordance with Norwegian Freedom of Information Act § 25. When you apply for a position with us, your name will appear on the public applicant list. It is possible to request to be excluded from this list. You must justify why you want an exemption from publication and we will then decide whether we can grant your request. If we can’t, you will hear from us.

Please refer to Regulations for the Act on universities and colleges chapter 3 (Norwegian),  Guidelines concerning appointment to post doctoral and research posts at UiO (Norwegian) and Regulations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the University of Oslo.

The University of Oslo has a transfer agreement with all employees that is intended to secure the rights to all research results etc.