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Summer Research Placements

The department has two placements available for undergraduate students (from outside the department) to work for 8-10 weeks on a meteorological research project. Please see the attached PDF for further information.

Four faculty positions in the Department of Meteorology

The University of Reading is undertaking a major investment programme to appoint 50 new faculty positions including up to 20 in Climate and Environmental Sciences, around 10 of which will be in the Department of Meteorology. As part of this we are delighted to advertise the following four permanent posts, all of which have an application deadline of 24 May.

Chair in Climate Processes

We seek a scientist with an outstanding record in climate research and strong leadership skills to take up the position of Chair in Climate Processes. We are interested in applicants with expertise in any aspect of the climate system including (but not limited to): atmospheric dynamics and physics, oceanography, the cryosphere, land-surface processes, paleoclimatology, planetary physics, earth system modelling and solar-terrestrial interactions.

The successful applicant will play a leading role within the Department of Meteorology to maximize the ability of its strengthened capability in climate science to tackle the next generation of scientific problems. Reading is a very exciting place to do climate research; we have thriving research groups tackling many aspects of the climate system, we host around 40 scientists from the Climate division of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAS) as well as a number of scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre, and we work closely with the Walker Institute at Reading to address the societal impacts of climate change.

The salary is negotiable and at the Professorial level. Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Professor Michael Lockwood (m.lockwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3785572) or Professor Robin Hogan (r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416). Job reference CH12011.

Reader in Hazardous Weather

We seek a scientist with an excellent research track record to provide leadership in research into the physical processes underlying weather, with a focus on hazardous weather. There are excellent opportunities for collaboration with our thriving weather research groups, with the newly formed Weather and Climate Hazards Laboratory (led by the Willis Chair, Professor Pier Luigi Vidale), and with the storm-scale numerical modelling carried out within the Mesoscale Modelling Group of the MetOffice@Reading, which forms a central part of our Academic Partnership with the Met Office.

Note that this position is equivalent to Associate Professor in the US. Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Professor Eleanor Highwood (e.j.highwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786688) or Professor Robin Hogan (r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416). Job reference RD12002.

Reader in Climate Processes

Lecturer in Climate Processes

We seek scientists with an excellent research track record in climate processes and good leadership skills to take up the positions of Reader in Climate Processes and Lecturer in Climate Processes. We are interested in applicants with expertise in any aspect of the climate system from an observational, modelling and/or theoretical perspective.

There are excellent opportunities for collaboration; we host thriving research groups working in many areas of climate science, including tropospheric and stratospheric dynamics, climate variability and change, oceanography, radiative transfer, cloud and aerosol physics, land-surface processes, solar-terrestrial interactions, the global water cycle, sea-level rise, climate impacts, coupled climate modelling and model evaluation using novel observations.

Note that Reader is equivalent to Associate Professor in the US while Lecturer is equivalent to Assistant Professor. Informal enquiries are encouraged and may be made to Professor Robin Hogan (r.j.hogan@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786416), or Professor Eleanor Highwood (e.j.highwood@reading.ac.uk, +44 (0)118 3786688). Job reference numbers: RD12003 (Reader) and LE12020 (Lecturer).

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