The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses Mare Nostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for Euro HPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries.

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The Earth Sciences Department of the BSC (BSC-ES) carries out research into modelling and understanding the behavior of the Earth’s system. BSC-ES focuses on atmospheric emissions, air quality, mineral dust, climate variability and changee, global health resilience, and Earth system services for end users.

Within the BSC-ES, the Atmospheric Composition Group develops a modelling capability to combine atmospheric dynamical and chemical processes relevant at a wide range of spatial scales, and investigates their impacts on weather, air quality, climate, health and ecosystems. A core activity of the group is dust modelling and forecasting, and as a result of its excellence, the BSC-ES hosts the WMO Sand and Dust Storm Warning Advisory and Assessment System for North Africa, the Middle East and Europe, and an AXA Chair on Sand and Dust Storms. The group is also highly active in the EC Framework Programs and collaborates with the administrations on competitive projects and contracts.

Atmospheric deposition of soluble iron associated with dust and combustion aerosols influences primary productivity and carbon uptake in vast regions of the open ocean. The amount and solubility of the deposited iron depend upon its origin and chemical processing during transport. Large uncertainties remain on the absolute and relative contributions of anthropogenic and natural sources as well as the atmospheric iron dissolution mechanisms that determine the bioavailable iron supply from the atmosphere to the ocean and its impact on the carbon cycle. Better understanding these influences is fundamental in a context of changing climate and global implementation of climate-mitigation policies.

The Atmospheric Composition group from the ES-BSC is looking for a research engineer to give support to research activities in the group. The overall research lines that the engineer will contribute to aim to improve our understanding of the natural and anthropogenic contributions to the soluble iron deposition in the ocean. Part of the research will consist of further developing and constraining the atmospheric iron cycle in the EC-Earth Earth System model.

The engineer will have the opportunity to follow multiple training activities, including those aimed at improving coding and data analysis, scientific and project writing abilities. All this will be implemented via the formal courses organized by the Education and Training team and Human Resources, and the participation in the regular seminars organized by the department. The work will be managed through weekly meetings with the supervisors. The engineer will work in a highly collaborative environment, with tight links with other researchers in the Atmospheric Composition group and other members of the department, including ocean biogeochemistry modelers. In this context, the applicant will be encouraged to participate in discussions and meetings involving several funded projects related to the work, including the Spanish ministry grant entitled BIOTA (Ocean BIOgeochemistry response To refined Atmospheric iron inputs in present and future climate) led by the supervisors, and other core projects of the group focusing on dust and climate research, e.g., the AXA Chair on Sand. Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.