Job description

For the CAINA (cloud-aerosol reactions in a nitrogen dominated atmosphere) project we are looking for a PhD/Postdoc candidate to join our endeavors.

Reactive nitrogen is quickly becoming the dominant pollutant in many regions in the world, with important consequences for ecosystems, human health and climate. This leads to changes in atmospheric chemistry and physics that need to be understood. The CAINA project investigates how aerosols and clouds interact in this new chemical regime by combining field experiments, chamber studies and modeling. The project is located mainly in the Netherlands, where nitrogen pollution evolved to be a serious problem. We make extensive use of the Ruisdael atmospheric observatory external link with its advanced in-situ and remote sensing infrastructure.

The CAINA team consists of atmospheric scientists from 4 Dutch Universities (University of Groningen, Wageningen University, TU Delft, and Utrecht University) in collaboration with project partners from Germany (MPIC-Mainz, Leibnitz Institute for Tropospheric research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and from Cyprus (The Cyprus Institute). We closely collaborate on the project, combining our expertise in atmospheric and aerosol physics, atmospheric chemistry, cloud remote sensing, and atmospheric modeling.

You will be part of the CAINA research community and participate in a large, international field campaign, yearly workshops, and regular CAINA meetings. Research stays at our international partners can be facilitated. Your specific duties will be performing measurements with Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry (TOF-MS) instruments. Our lab operates two Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitors (ACSM) and three Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass-Spectrometers in different setups. With both instruments you will perform long-term measurements that cover several seasons, and you will analyze aerosol filter and cloud water samples with our offline Thermal-desorption (TD) PTR-MS method. A major task will be the synthesis of all CAINA experiments/measurements (including the modelling efforts) which requires a close collaboration with the entire CAINA team.

Link to the full application:

Use this link to apply for the position. Deadline for applications extended until April 17. 

If you have any questions that you’d like us to answer, please contact Rupert Holzinger (r.holzinger@uu.nl)

Do you have a question about the application procedure? Please send an email to science.recruitment@uu.nl.