IRTA is currently seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Researcher with a PhD related to Marine Sciences to join the Marine and Continental Waters P rogram. We invite applications from ambitious candidates with relevant research experience and passion to conduct research and innovation activities on the modelling and forecasting phytoplankton dynamics.
AGROLABS DIGITALS is a pioneer research and innovation project of IRTA that aims to boost the Agrifood sectorwith the digital transformation both in plant and animal production. The project involves main actions: i) the creation of infrastructures for testing and experimentation of new digital technologies and ii) a platform of data and digital services, a data space, that will be made available to the main agricultural sectors, universities and other research and innovation institutes. The testing and experimentation facilities will be deployed in 10 different IRTA sites across Catalonia involving the Plant and Animal Production Areas of IRTA. In specific, they will focus on fruit and field crop sectors, postharvest of fruit and vegetables, swine, bovine and aquaculture.
* Head of the Program: Dr. Jorge Diogene
* Programs key researcher/s for this position: Margarita Fernandez Tejedor
* Job location: IRTA la Rapita
* Full time position (37.5 h/week)
* Terms of appointment: Contract for the project AGROLABS DIGITALS
* Salary: Category F from the RDT salary scale of IRTA (34.077)
* Employee Benefits: 22 vacation days, 3 days of family & work conciliation, 45h of personal days, Friday afternoon off, Compressed Summer schedule from 15/06 to 15/09, Conciliation schedule.
Tasks and Responsabilites:
* Develop forecast models for harmful algal blooms using long term time series of phytoplankton and environmental data.
* Run the forecast models in an operational framework including data visualization through a web portal to provide early warnings to the aquaculture industry about the weekly probability of HABs occurrence.
* Contribute to the activities of the research Program, performing scientific and technical tasks, taking part in the planning and execution of the project AGROLABS to ensure the achievement of milestones of the project.
* Perform literature review, data collection and management, involving statistical analysis.
* Contribute to the scientific production of the research and innovation activities of the Program.
* Contribute to the teamwork and team spirit in the Marine and Continental Waters Program, fostering collaboration and integration activities.
Required qualifications and experience:
1. Ph.D. in Marine Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Science or related fields applied to data analys