<div dir="ltr"><p>Post-doctoral Research Associate in Programming Languages and Systems for Climate Modelling at the University of Kent<br>
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<p><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24__;!!IBzWLUs!V6cULeikQ6jPpgf2TrhUmg0cok5DmAAyF1vxYh_cqR3UopAv0G-_w7zu1t10-lCrlnnyR3p3WymaepjvjP0f6De-ai0ETIeCWao$">https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24</a><br>
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<p>Length: 33 months<br>
Location: Canterbury, University of Kent<br>
With: Dominic Orchard (<a href="mailto:d.a.orchard@kent.ac.uk">d.a.orchard@kent.ac.uk</a>)<br>
Closing date: 9th September 2024<br>
Salary: £38k-£42k<br>
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Details at: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24__;!!IBzWLUs!V6cULeikQ6jPpgf2TrhUmg0cok5DmAAyF1vxYh_cqR3UopAv0G-_w7zu1t10-lCrlnnyR3p3WymaepjvjP0f6De-ai0ETIeCWao$">https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24</a><br>
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<p>Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time.
Assessing its risks and our progress towards mitigating its worst
effects requires processing a wealth of data and computing simulations
to make decisions that affect the lives of billions worldwide, both now
and in the future. However, in the last decade, climate modelling has
faced diminishing returns from current hardware trends and software
engineering techniques. Developing the required models and analysis
tools to effectively process, explore, and derive policy decisions, with
a high degree of transparency and trust, remains difficult. There is
therefore a need for computer scientists to develop programming tools,
languages, and systems to enable scientists to more effectively develop
the next generation of climate modelling and analysis tools.</p>
<p>This post, embedded in the Programming Language and Systems group at
Kent, will undertake novel research on programming languages, tools, and
systems to support climate modelling and climate scientists. This work
could be from several perspectives, for example, but not limited to:<br>
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* static analysis tooling for numerical models;<br>
* verification of critical libraries used by climate scientists;<br>
* developing novel language ideas for future computational science efforts;<br>
* extending existing languages with novel features to support science;<br>
* developing new tools (including libraries) to support climate science research.</p>
<p>We are open to other ideas however than just those mentioned above.Projects
that are driven from a climate science perspective, including
data-driven techniques for climate science, are also welcome. </p>
<p>The work will be in collaboration with researchers as the Institute
of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge
(<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://iccs.cam.ac.uk/__;!!IBzWLUs!V6cULeikQ6jPpgf2TrhUmg0cok5DmAAyF1vxYh_cqR3UopAv0G-_w7zu1t10-lCrlnnyR3p3WymaepjvjP0f6De-ai0EQGn4hc4$">https://iccs.cam.ac.uk/</a>) and under the supervision of Dr Dominic
Orchard (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dorchard.github.io/__;!!IBzWLUs!V6cULeikQ6jPpgf2TrhUmg0cok5DmAAyF1vxYh_cqR3UopAv0G-_w7zu1t10-lCrlnnyR3p3WymaepjvjP0f6De-ai0EU2KmxwI$">https://dorchard.github.io/</a>). There is opportunity to work
directly with leading climate scientists, to discover problems that need
tackling and to test out novel ideas. <br>
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<p>Eligibility criteria can be found in the job description linked from
the advert (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24__;!!IBzWLUs!V6cULeikQ6jPpgf2TrhUmg0cok5DmAAyF1vxYh_cqR3UopAv0G-_w7zu1t10-lCrlnnyR3p3WymaepjvjP0f6De-ai0ETIeCWao$">https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CEMS-264-24</a>) and
includes holding, or nearing completion of, a PhD in computer science
(or a relevant field with sufficient experience in computer science).</p>
<p>Contact Dominic Orchard (<a href="mailto:d.a.orchard@kent.ac.uk">d.a.orchard@kent.ac.uk</a> / <a href="mailto:dao29@cam.ac.uk">dao29@cam.ac.uk</a>) for more details.<br>
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