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IERS Message No. 231                                       June 17, 2013
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Job Vacancy at GFZ in Geodetic/Astrometric VLBI


The Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
is the national Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany and a member
of the Helmholtz Association.

For the new Working Group "Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI)" at
Department 1 "Geodesy and Remote Sensing", Section 1.1 "GPS/Galileo
Earth Observation", we invite applications for a

Junior Scientist (f/m) in Geodetic/Astrometric VLBI

In the VLBI group the research focus lies on the applications of VLBI in
space, where topics such as the collocation of various space-geodetic
techniques on board of satellites and the connection of dynamical and
kinematical celestial reference frames, e.g. through differential VLBI
(D-VLBI), play a key role. The VLBI group at GFZ shall operationally
provide the results of VLBI data analysis to the International VLBI
Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS). Assuming an active role inside
IVS, the official IVS troposphere products will be combined and provided
at GFZ. The specific tasks are: 

- Development of scientific methods and the corresponding software for
  applications of VLBI in differential VLBI (D-VLBI) including the
  consideration of the radio sources and their apparent proper motions,
  e.g. caused by intrinsic structure variability
- Integration and testing of the developed methods into the existing
  VLBI data analysis software VieVS
- Contributions to the operational activities of the GFZ Analysis Center
  of the International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS)

Qualifications:

- MSc / Diploma in Geodesy preferably with specialization in
  space-geodetic techniques or MSc / Diploma in Astronomy / Physics with
  particular knowledge of the physics of extragalactic radio sources
  (radio galaxies, quasars, etc.)
- Experience with operational analysis of geodetic VLBI observations and
  software development of VLBI analysis software, e.g. OCCAM, VieVS,
  Calc/SOLVE, Bernese, and with provision of scientific results to the
  user community of IVS products
- Knowledge about the operational processes within the IVS
- Experience with scientific software development, e.g. applying FORTRAN
  or Matlab
- Very good English
- Skill to contribute to a multi-disciplinary and international working
  group with the appropriate communicative competence
- High motivation and self-employment capabilities

More information:

http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/Neuestes/Stellenanzeigen
see:
Kennziffer 33_1_13 G Junior Scientist (f/m) in Geodetic/Astrometric VLBI
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