Postdoctoral positions in Climate/Ocean Physics and Machine Learning in the Math

MPOWIR is hiring Postdoctoral researchers in Climate/Ocean Physics and Machine Learning at NYU Courant’s Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science. Candidates should have strong analytical skills to work on ocean dynamics, climate change, and machine learning applications. Projects may involve climate predictability, parameterization improvements, and data inference. The positions are full-time, starting September 2019, with potential for renewal based on performance.
NYU Courant’s Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science is seeking outstanding researchers with strong physical insight and analytical ability to join the research group of Prof. Laure Zanna ( laurezanna.github.io ). Some of our recent work includes: ocean dynamics and climate change, air-sea interactions, predictability in mid-latitudes, and stochastic parameterizations of turbulent ocean processes. We are primarily interested in researchers who can incorporate ideas and tools from machine learning to solve fundamental problems in ocean/climate dynamics and modeling.
The possible project topics include:
Assessing the predictability of climate phenomena
Improving subgrid-scale parameterizations
The inference of climate variables/processes from sparse data (e.g., paleoproxy or satellite data)
Uncertainty quantification for ensemble simulations
The earliest start date is September 2019. These positions are full-time appointments initially for one year and renewable conditional on satisfactory performance and funding.
The Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science is a unit of the department of Mathematics, within the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. NYU Courant is a highly respected institute for cutting-edge research and advanced training in applied mathematics and computer science. NYU Courant has strong links with the NYU Center for Data Science (CDS), home for the NYU Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment ( msdse.org ). NYU Courant is in the very heart of the world’s leading artistic and financial center in downtown Manhattan.
For informal enquiries, please email Laure Zanna:laure.zanna@nyu.edu#J-18808-Ljbffr