PhD in Dynamical Meteorology

PhD Student in Polar Dynamical Meteorology at the Institute of Geography (GIUB) and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) at the University of Bern./nStart of employment: 01.05.2026 or by agreement./nEmployment is fixed term for 3 years./nProject focus: constraining precipitation efficiency of large-scale deep cloud systems using water isotope observations; quantify conversion efficiency for large-scale deep cloud systems in the Southern Hemisphere; focus on cloud systems that impact snow accumulation (surface mass balance) in Antarctica./nMethods and data: existing ground-based in-situ water isotope measurements from the Antarctic East Coast; satellite-based observations from the IASI instrument aboard Metop satellites; additional in-situ measurements as part of the PhD; hierarchy of modelling tools from moist adiabatic air parcel ascent models, trajectory-based box models to high-resolution numerical weather model simulations (including COSMOiso)./nCollaboration and context: part of SNSF funded Starting Grant project PERISCOPE; embedded in the Swiss Polar Institute Flagship project DOMINO; extended field campaigns planned at the Neumayer III station (AWI); collaboration with AWI scientists through Antarctica InSync.