ForWind is the joint Center for Wind Energy Research of the Universities of Oldenburg, Hannover and Bremen. ForWind bundles a wide range of wind energy research activities in the areas of physics and engineering sciences and provides independent scientific co-operation in industry-oriented projects. Moreover, ForWind organizes education in wind energy, offers advanced training for future wind energy experts and hosts conferences and workshops in the area of wind energy.

We offer

Related to the investment in a computer cluster with more than 2000 cores that will be exclusively available for projects in wind energy research, ForWind is of­fering a position for a

Senior Scientist in numerical computing.

The working contract will be fixed term until December 2014. It is intended to extend the position in the future. The salary and social benefits will be according to Germany's public sector TV-L E13 pay scale. You will work at ForWind at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in a highly interdisciplinary and mo­ti­va­ted team of physicists, meteorologists and engineers. We dedicate our re­search to wind energy to become one of the main energy sources in the future.

Your responsibilities

An innovative task in wind energy research is waiting for you. Your responsibility is to give support to the users of the new computer cluster in porting, parallelizing and optimizing their meteorological and aerodynamic models and source codes. You will elaborate concepts for a highly-efficient and user-friendly operation of the new computer cluster including the management of the queuing system and you will have the opportunity to realize these concepts on your own responsibility for the benefit of the users. We offer you the possibility to carry out own CFD research activities and / or to contribute to research or industrial projects of the CFD group.

Your profile

Prerequisite for a successful application is that you have a university degree (e. g. master or diploma) in natural or engineering sciences, mathematics or computer sciences. It is a prerequisite that you have a deep knowledge in the management of a computer cluster as well as programming languages such as FORTRAN and C/C++. A wide experience in the numerical implementation of complex ma­the­ma­ti­cal equations strengthens your skills. The parallelization of programs (MPI/OpenMP) and the management of large amounts of data are familiar to you. Knowledge of the numerical simulation of hydrodynamic flows would be ad­van­ta­geous. We expect excellent communication skills, the ability to work in a team and dedicated commitment in order to grant ForWind's research groups an optimum benefit of the new computing facilities.

The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg seeks to increase the proportion of women in science. Therefore, women are strongly encouraged to apply for the offered position. According to § 21 paragraph 3 NHG female applicants with equal qualifications as male applicants will be pre­ferred. Disabled persons will be preferred, if they are equally qualified as other candidates. The offered job is not suitable for part-time working.

Contact

For questions regarding this vacancy please contact Björn Witha, Tel.: 0441/7985075.

The closing date is February 15^th, 2012. Please send your application to ForWind - Center for Wind Energy Research, Geschäftsstelle, Ammerländer Heerstraße 136, 26129 Oldenburg. Alternatively, we also look forward to receive your application by e-mail to frauke.haunhorst@forwind.de. Please quote the job reference Cluster_WM_Pos_3_2012. Your application should include a covering letter, your CV, a list of references and publications as well as copies of relevant certificates. More information about ForWind can be found at our website www.forwind.de.