🇨🇭 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐀𝐭𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐬 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐭 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 (𝐃𝐀𝐖𝐍 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩)

🏫 The DAWN Group within the Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics and Expertise Center for Climate Extremes at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) is inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position lasting up to 5 years.

📘 The position centers on pioneering research at the intersection of atmospheric physics and artificial intelligence.

🔬 Research Scope & Custom Project Proposal

🔎 Candidates are expected to propose a creative research idea spanning atmospheric physics (e.g., aerosol–cloud interactions, atmospheric convection, tropical meteorology, extremes) and scientific machine learning (e.g., causal ML, hybrid physics–AI modeling, generative modeling, operator learning).

🗂 Candidate Profile & Qualifications

📚 Education: Master's degree (completed or expected before start date) in Atmospheric Science, Climate Science, Physics, Applied Math, Statistics, Computer Science, or Data Science.

⚙ Technical Skills: Strong scientific programming and data-analysis skills (preferably Python) with experience handling large scientific datasets or numerical models.

🆎 Languages: Fluent in English (French or German are not required).

💰 Salary, Funding & Key Dates

Salary & Perks: Annual salary scaling from ~CHF 54k (Year 1) to ~CHF 63k (Year 5), plus 5 weeks paid holiday, computing hardware/GPU access, conference travel, and publication funding.

🗓 Target Start Date: March 1, 2027.

📆 Application Deadline: September 15, 2026 (for full consideration).

📩 Required Application Documents

📇 Submit via the UNIL online portal as separate PDFs:
CV & Transcripts/Certificates.
References PDF: Contact details for 2 academic referees.

📋 Written Work Sample: One lead-authored report, thesis, or manuscript.

📄 Short Statement (max 250 words): Favorite research experience, career goals, and teaching/mentoring interests.

📑 Project Proposal (max 500 words): Creative PhD project idea linking atmospheric physics and AI.

📧 Inquiries: dawn-jobs@unil.ch


🌐 https://wp.unil.ch/dawn/phd-positions-details/

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