Job – Research Assistant, Geothermal, Geoscience/ Engineering – TU Berlin, Germany

The position of a Research Assistant, salary grade E13 TV-L Universities of Berlin/ Germany has been advertised seeking for applicants.

• Location: Site Charlottenburg, TU Berlin, Germany
• Category: Research Assistant without teaching oblication
• Duration: until 31.12.2023
• Starting date: Earliest possible
• Field of studies: geotechnology, engineering geology, hydrogeology, geothermics, geoecology, geos­ci­ences
• Level of edu­c­a­tion: Mas­ter, Dip­lom or equi­val­ent
• Lan­guage skills: German (excellent knowledge of language), English (excellent knowledge of language)
• Closing Date: 03/07/20
• Further details: here

Work­ing field:

• Work within the research pro­ject “EnEff: HCBC” : Use of the urban sub­sur­face as a geo­thermal under­ground thermal stor­age, ener­getic dis­trict solu­tion for the uni­versity cam­pus Ber­lin-Char­lot­ten­burg
• Geo­thermal mod­el­ling, devel­op­ment of a sub­sur­face model, explor­a­tion of poten­tial sites for a geo­thermal stor­age in soil
• Exper­i­ence with geo­thermal mod­el­ling soft­ware like Feflow, MOOSE or Com­sol
• Invest­ig­a­tion of tech­nical solu­tions for geo­thermal energy stor­ages in urban dis­tricts
• Invest­ig­a­tions on integ­ra­tion of geo­thermal stor­ages in multi-level dis­trict heat­ing net­works
• Work­ing on ques­tions at the inter­face between hydro­chem­ical inter­ac­tions and micro­bi­o­logy
• Inter­dis­cip­lin­ary pro­ject coordin­a­tion and cooper­a­tion with pro­ject part­ners
• Sci­entific super­vi­sion of prac­tical imple­ment­a­tion Tests
• Field work
• Plan­ning and main­ten­ance of mon­it­or­ing sys­tems, inter alia, with LOR­AWAN
• Pub­lic­a­tion of research find­ings in sci­entific journ­als
• Ment­or­ing of stu­dent work­ers and stu­dent theses

Require­ments:

• Suc­cess­fully com­pleted uni­versity degree (Mas­ter, Dip­lom or equi­val­ent) in Geo­tech­no­logy, Engin­eer­ing Geo­logy, Hydro­geo­logy, Geo­therm­ics, Geoe­co­logy or equi­val­ent.
• Advanced know­ledge of shal­low, urban geo­thermal sys­tems are required.
• Expert­ise in numeric sim­u­la­tion of shal­low geo­thermal energy sys­tems: Heat trans­port and ground­wa­ter flow sim­u­la­tion is essen­tial.
• Expert know­ledge in ana­lysis and inter­pret­a­tion of geo­lo­gical, struc­tural geo­lo­gical and hydro­geo­lo­gical explor­a­tion data, prefer­ably for the Ber­lin area.
• Com­pet­ent use of GIS applic­a­tions and data bases is expec­ted.
• Neces­sary is know­ledge of reg­u­lat­ory require­ments for geo­thermal use, espe­cially in Ber­lin is desir­able.
• Exper­i­ence in cooper­a­tion with respons­ible author­it­ies and com­pan­ies is desir­able.
• Proven exper­i­ence in pub­lic­a­tion of reviewed sci­entific papers and present­a­tion is desir­able and an import­ant decision cri­terion.
• Com­mand of the Ger­man and Eng­lish lan­guage spoken and in writ­ing is required.
• Abil­ity to per­form field work is essen­tial, f.e. to take ground­wa­ter samples.

Further inform­a­tion: https://www.ingenieurgeologie.tu-berlin.de/menue/home/ (seems to be available only in German)

How to ap­ply:

Please send your applic­a­tion with the ref­er­ence num­ber and the usual doc­u­ments (CV, uni­versity cer­ti­fic­ates, pub­lic­a­tion list and ref­er­ences) only by email (single pdf file, max. 5 MB) to Prof. Dr. Tomas Fernan­dez-Stee­ger (pia.daute@tu-berlin.de).

By sub­mit­ting your applic­a­tion via email you con­sent to hav­ing your data elec­tron­ic­ally pro­cessed and saved. Please note that we do not provide a guar­anty for the pro­tec­tion of your per­sonal data when sub­mit­ted as unpro­tec­ted file. Please find our data pro­tec­tion notice acc. DSGVO (Gen­eral Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion) at the TU staff depart­ment homepage: https://www.abt2-t.tu-berlin.de/menue/themen_a_z/datenschutzerklaerung/ or quick access 214041.

To ensure equal oppor­tun­it­ies between women and men, applic­a­tions by women with the required qual­i­fic­a­tions are expli­citly desired. Qual­i­fied indi­vidu­als with dis­ab­il­it­ies will be favored. The TU Ber­lin val­ues the diversity of its mem­bers and is com­mit­ted to the goals of equal oppor­tun­it­ies.

Tech­nis­che Uni­versität Ber­lin – Der Präsid­ent – Fak­ultät VI, Insti­tut für Ange­wandte Geowis­senschaften, FG Ingenie­ur­geo­lo­gie, Prof. Dr. Tomas Fernan­dez-Stee­ger, Sekr. BH-N 3-1, Ernst-Reu­ter-Platz 1, 10587 Ber­lin.

Source: TU Berlin

Alexander Richter

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