Open PhD position: Hydrology and Land Management – TU Wien

[Guenter Bloeschl]

Open PhD position: Hydrology and Land Management – TU Wien




We are inviting applications for:

A PhD student position on "Reduction of pluvial
floods through optimised land management", a
project carried out jointly by the Vienna
University of Technology and the Austrian Federal
Agency for Water Management. The position is for
a 3 year period, starting in September 2023. The
workplace will be in Petzenkirchen, Lower Austria.



Your tasks:

· Exciting field work in Hydrological Open Air Laboratory (HOAL)
· Hydrological modelling
· Writing a dissertation and publishing papers
· Presentation of results at conferences
· Participation in organizational and administrative tasks


Your profile:

· MSc or diploma degree in civil
engineering, environmental engineering or an
equivalent natural science university degree in Austria or abroad
· Experience with hydrological modelling
and/or hydrological field work is an advantage
· Programming skills with Matlab, Python or R
· Advanced language skills in German


We offer:

· Varied and exciting tasks and responsibilities in a collegial team
· Tasks include field work in the HOAL:
<https://hoal.hydrology.at/the-hoal>https://hoal.hydrology.at/the-hoal
· Excellent networking with the national
and international research community
· Attractive social benefits:
<https://url.tuwien.at/jcgpb>https://url.tuwien.at/jcgpb
· Wide range of training opportunities,
participation in national and international conferences
· Support with career options after graduation

Remuneration is based on the minimum remuneration
of salary group B1 according to the collective
agreement for university employees with a current
amount of EUR 3.277,30 gross/month (14 times per
year) for a full time employment of 40 hours.
Job-related periods of previous employments can be credited.

We look forward to receiving your email
application as a pdf-file by 31 August 2023 to bloe...@hydro.tuwien.ac.at

Günter Blöschl


Univ. Prof. Dr. Günter Blöschl
Head, Institute of Hydraulic Engineering, TU Wien www.hydro.tuwien.ac.at
Director, Centre for Water Resource Systems, TU Wien www.waterresources.at
Senator, Helmholtz Association, www.helmholtz.de
Dr. hc. Univ. Bologna
<https://youtu.be/sDLYRduRsKM>https://youtu.be/sDLYRduRsKM
FloodChange floodchange.hydro.tuwien.ac.at
Experimental Hydrology HOAL.hydrology.at
Nature paper: Changing climate both increases and
decreases European river floods rdcu.be/bPKT7
Nature paper: Current European flood-rich period
exceptional compared with past 500 years rdcu.be/b5MsG
Nature comm. paper: Climate and land management
accelerate the Brazilian water cycle https://rdcu.be/cUL8n