Research Fellow position for the project Interactions and causality in complex systems - Ref. No. 2024/12

A project funded by the Praemium Academiae awarded to Milan Paluš (http://www.cs.cas.cz/mp/) by the Czech Academy of Sciences for the period 2020-2025 is open for applications for a position of research fellow or postdoctoral researcher. The project is oriented to study interactions and causality in nonlinear, multiscale complex systems with extreme events. The primary application fields will be the Earth climate, magnetosphere/ionosphere (space weather) and the human brain.

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Conditions:

  • The contract will be for one year.
  • This is a full-time fixed term contract appointment.
  • Monthly gross salary: 30000 - 55000 CZK based on qualifications and experience. (Cost Of Living Comparison).
  • Bonuses and travel funding for conferences and research stays depending on performance.
  • No teaching duties.

Applicants should:

  • Hold or expect a PhD (PhD. student/research assistant positions available as well, contact M. Paluš) in computer science, mathematical and physical sciences, geosciences or neuroscience and proven experience at least in one of the following:

    Estimation of information-theoretic functionals, esp. in causality analysis,

    Extreme events,

    Climate modelling and climate data processing (e.g. NetCDF data format),

    Magnetosphere/ionosphere (space weather),

    Brain data processing and modelling,

    Machine learning, in particular, physics-informed machine learning.

  • Have strong data analysis, statistical, mathematical modelling and/or machine learning skills with practical programming experience.
  • Be fluent in English.

The application process:

The applications should be sent to jobs@cs.cas.cz and should contain:

  • Mention of Ref. No. 2024/12.
  • Curriculum Vitae.
  • A proof of the obtained degree.
  • Two letters of recommendation. The referees should send their recommendations directly to jobs@cs.cas.cz.

Informal inquires can be sent to the principal investigator RNDr. Milan Paluš, DrSc., mp@cs.cas.cz.