Research Assistant or Associate in Contrail Modelling

Aviation has been identified as one of the hardest-to-decarbonise sectors, with growing environmental impacts. This role is dedicated to understanding and addressing those impacts, using a combination of computational modelling and observational analysis.

As part of the Aerospace Environmental Impacts Simulation (AEIS) group, you will develop and apply computational models of aviation’s global environmental impacts including on the climate and regional air quality. 50% of your role will be dedicated to ZENITIA, an EU-funded project where you will use models such as GEOS-Chem and CoCiP to quantify the environmental impacts of current and next-generation aircraft. The other 50% of your role will be dedicated to flexible research under the Contrail Research Centre (CRC) at Imperial, in which you will have the freedom to identify and address the most critical research questions in contrail science. Across both areas you will be encouraged to develop and apply novel computational techniques, and to identify new opportunities to incorporate observational constraints.

A highly quantitative mindset with a deep interest in computational methods

Enthusiasm to reduce the environmental impact of the aerospace sector

Interest in research leadership, including strong communication skills

Prior experience applying, and ideally developing, chemistry-transport, chemistry-climate, and/or contrail models is highly desirable but not essential