<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Estimados,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">reenviamos informacion acerca del ofrecimiento de beca de doctorado en la Universidad de Berna.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Saludos,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Milva.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">---------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Dear Colleagues,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The research group on "Satellite Geodesy" of the Astronomical Institute</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">of the University of Bern (AIUB) offers the position for a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">                 PhD CANDIDATE.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The focus will be on the derivation of time-variable Earth?s gravity</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">fields from ultra-precise inter-satellite ranging data of the Gravity</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Recovery And Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission and its successor</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mission GRACE Follow-On, scheduled for launch in early 2018.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Today the analysts are still challenged with the GRACE processing.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Regular comparisons in the frame of the H2020 project European Gravity</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Service for Improved Emergency Management (EGSIEM) have revealed that</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">solutions from different GRACE analysis centers are not always fully</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">comparable and therefore difficult to be combined. This was found to be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">mainly related to the underlying heterogeneous stochastic modeling in</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the GRACE data processing.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The main focus of the Ph.D. position will be on the derivation of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">empirical noise models and the thorough investigation of their impact on</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">the time-variable gravity field solutions derived from GRACE/GRACE-FO</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">data. In addition the candidate is expected to support the GRACE-FO</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">processing at AIUB as soon as data will become available.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The complete position description is available at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.bernese.unibe.ch/Stellen/Stellenausschreibung_20171018.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">http://www.bernese.unibe.ch/St<wbr>ellen/Stellenausschreibung_201<wbr>71018.pdf</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Please circulate this information within your institute.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">With best regards</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Rolf Dach</span><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">Secretaria de Posgrado</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">Universidad Nacional de La Plata</span><div><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16.5px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">Teléfono</strong><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:16.5px;background-color:rgb(252,252,252)">: (0221)-423-6593 int. 1050</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/area-docente/posgrado/posgrado" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(25,106,212);outline:none;font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial" target="_blank">http://www.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar/area-docente/posgrado/posgrado</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'Helvetica Neue','Segoe UI',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13px">------------------------------------------------------------</span><br></div></div></div></div>