PhD position at the Transient Plasmas in Planetary Atmospheres

PhD (doctoral) position within the TRansient Plasmas in Planetary Atmospheres (TRAPPA) group (www.grupotrappa.iaa.es) at the IAA - CSIC (www.iaa.es) in Granada and within the context of the granted project "CONTRIBUCIÓN DEL IAA A ASIM: EXPERIMENTOS, OBSERVACIONES DESDE SUELO, ANÁLISIS DE DATOS Y MODELIZACIÓN" with Ref. ESP2022-136348NB-C31. 

This PhD position is to investigate atmospheric electricity phenomena in the new era of geostationary lightning detection, focussing on the chemical role of lightning in the atmosphere.

We offer a fulltime employment as a PhD (doctoral) student for 3 years (with possible extension of 1 year). The starting date of the contract is negotiable but ideally it would be September 16, 2025. The PhD candidate to be recruited by our group will be employed with full social security coverage. 

The gross salary is 1600 EUR per month (with 14 annual payments). We look for highly motivated students that hold a Master degree in physics, applied mathematics and/or engineering and demonstrate a high level of accomplishment and excellence in previous academic experience. 

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