Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Earth science

UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Earth science. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Stefan Bünz. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Earth science (glaciology, geophysics, geochemistry, oceanography remote-sensing, machine-learning, robotics, sensor technology) as presented by Professor Bünz:

We are looking for highly motivated and skilled Postdoctoral candidates to join our dynamic team focused on the innovation and development of technologies for polar cryospheric research. The position is affiliated to the newly funded Norwegian Centre of Excellence, iC3: Centre for ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate. iC3 aims to fill a major research gap in polar science by quantifying the future impact of ice sheet change on the Earth's carbon cycle over policy-relevant timescales. Its integrated, interdisciplinary hub of experts studying the cryosphere, oceans, atmosphere and geosphere will close order of magnitude uncertainty in polar carbon budgets, addressing the hypothesis that changing ice sheets (and aligned cryosphere) profoundly impact Earth's carbon cycle, directly affecting human societies via feedbacks to our future climate and invaluable polar ecosystems. Development and innovation across all research disciplines includes sub-ice imaging, remote data capture and aerial mapping (drones/satellite), sensor development and deployment on autonomous underwater vehicles/moorings/drones/monitoring stations, real-time data transmission, ice-adapted robotics, machine-learning and inversion techniques applied to existing data of all disciplines, GIS technologies, spatial data analysis and more. Join us in pushing the boundaries of polar technology innovation! Explore the uncharted territories of the ice sheets and contribute to groundbreaking discoveries. 

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to stefan.buenz@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.