The Aerospace Department (https://aero.uc3m.es/) of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain (www.uc3m.es) invites applications to fill 3 PhD positions related to:

Climate & Weather. Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change and Meteorology with Application to Aviation

The successful candidates will join the Dynamics and Control in Aerospace Systems Lab, within the Aero Research Group (http://aero.uc3m.es/research.html). In particular, they will work in the aircraft operations lab with Prof. Manuel Soler and Prof. Javier García-Heras (https://aircraftoperationslab.com/).

The duties of the new group members include:

  • To develop different tasks in the recently granted National Projects STORM-ATS and Intelmet-PoC, all of them fully aligned with the PhD thesis topics.
  • Access to the Spanish FPI scholarship (granted together with the project STORM-ATS)
  • To teach laboratory/exercises classes and supervise student projects within UC3M Bachelor and master’s degrees in Aeronautical and Space Engineering. Teaching workload (if any) would be in any case low. Information on these two degrees, exclusively taught in English, is available at aero.uc3m.es.
  • To contribute establishing a vigorous, internationally competitive scientific research program.

The desired skills are:

  • Outstanding academic record.
  • Young MSc holder (or MSc student with 60 ECTS passed at contract’s signature) with background in Aerospace Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Control Engineering, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Optimization, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Sciences & Climate Change, Meteorology. Also, candidates with tracks in other disciplines but outstanding academic record are invited to apply.
  • International experience; team-working and communications skills.
  • Ability to deal independently with scientific and engineering challenges, mainly in innovative, interdisciplinary technologies

The contractual conditions are:

  • 4-year contract.
  • Annual gross salary: 22000-24000€ range (salary supplements may be awarded by UC3M internal calls)
  • Become part of a young, dynamic, highly qualified, collaborative team.
  • Flexible working environment and schedule.
  • Opportunity to travel to international conferences (Europe and oversees) and present research activities, including research stays in top universities.
  • Laptop and
  • Health coverage under the National Health System.

How to apply: Interested candidates should send their expression of interest for the offered positions to masolera@ing.uc3m.es and apply to the following link with reference nº. 219.

Submission of applications is due on April 24th.