Atmospheric Scientist

**Atmospheric scientist (f/m/d)**:

- Employer- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres- Location- Karlsruhe- Closing date- 19 May 2024- Discipline
Physics
Job Type
Postdoctoral
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
Professional certification
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**Job Details**:
**Area of research**:
Scientific / postdoctoral posts
**Starting date**:
22.03.2024
**Job description**:

- Conduct own research, (co-)supervise BSc, MSc and PhD students, submit proposals for third-party funding and interact with other researchers in IMKTRO’s Helmholtz programme “Changing Earth”.
- Support other group members in scientific and technical aspects of their work.
- Assist the group leader in organizational tasks.
- If desired, contribute to teaching in the BSc and MSc programs of Meteorology and Climate Physics.
- If desired, work towards a habilitation.
- This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over € 5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation._

**Company**:
The Helmholtz Association contributes to solving major challenges to assure the future of our society. With more than 39,000 people on staff in 18 national research centres, the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organization. The name Helmholtz stands for concerted research in which networks form the key principle behind inquiring thought and action. Concerted research is efficient and flexible.

**The profile of the Helmholtz Association**

The Helmholtz Association performs cutting-edge research which contributes substantially to solving the grand challenges of science, society and industry. To succeed in meeting these responsibilities, Helmholtz concentrates its work in six research fields: Energy, Earth and Environment, Health, Key Technologies, Matter, as well as Aeronautics, Space and Transport. Within each of these fields, research programs are developed by our scientists and regularly evaluated by renowned international experts. Their evaluation forms the basis for the programme-oriented funding that is allocated to Helmholtz research. Within the six research fields, Helmholtz scientists cooperate with each other and with external partners - working across disciplinary, organizational and national borders.

**Promoting young academics**

Helmholtz scientists, a high-performance infrastructure and modern and efficient research management are the ingredients to the Helmholtz Association‘s success and global impact.
Promoting young researchers is a major priority for the Helmholtz Association. Its qualification schemes for young researchers are geared mainly towards PhD students, postdocs and young managers. The Helmholtz Association has set high standards for its talent management. Its strategy begins with targeted recruitment of highly qualified staff at all levels, followed by comprehensive support aimed at further developing their potential. Ensuring equal opportunities is an essential element in all talent management activities undertaken by the Helmholtz Association.

**The Helmholtz Graduate Schools** and **Research Schools** at almost all Helmholtz Centres provide doctoral students with the general and specific skills and training they need, as well as ample opportunity to network with other working groups. The period following a doctorate is decisive in determining the direction and success of a scientific career. For this reason, we are about to establish Career Centers for postdoctoral researchers in the Helmholtz centres and a mentoring programme for especially gifted PostDocs in order to foster career orientation. This equips young researchers with the skills they need to go on to head a **Helmholtz Young Investigators Group**, for example. As a Young Investigator Group leader, junior scientists can independently set up their own group to conduct research in their specialist field.

Within its talent management strategy, the Helmholtz Association pays special attention to the increased recruitment of talented female scientists both from Germany and abroad. To this end, there are currently two funding programs supporting this policy **‘**Funding of first-time appointments of excellent women scientists (W2/W3)’** and **‘Funding to recruit top-level international women scientists (W3)’**.

The increasing complexity of the content, structures and framework conditions of scientific work today requires researchers to organise their projects, their employees and, of course, themselves in a highly professional and effective way. In response to these demands, we have set up the **Helmholtz Management Academy** to provide junior leaders in science with professional management training. Furthermore, the Helmholtz network provides a platform for the alumni of the