Postdoc / PhD Candidate in Engineering

LSTME Busan

Non-Profit Engineering Research and Development Center
Public Korean institutions subsidy LSTME Busan Branch
Recognized as Foreign Research Center by Busan Metropolitan City
Affiliate Institute of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Location: Busan, South Korea

Our mission

We are dedicated to engineering research and development at the highest international level
Make sophisticated engineering methods available for satisfying the needs of human individuals in different societies
We are multidisciplinary and international. The working language is English

LSTME Busan is offering

1 PostDoc research position
1 PhD candidate research position
in Experimental Fluid Mechanics

Offers and duties:

Establishing and supervising the Experimental Fluid Mechanics Lab
○ Implementing established methods in experimental fluid mechanics

○ Developing, validating, and applying emerging methods in experimental fluid mechanics

○ Emphasis on non-invasive, optical, digital, imaging methods

Applying for project funding
○ Korean

○ bilateral German-Korean

○ international

Assisting in administrative tasks
Reporting directly to the Scientific Steering Committee consisting of professors from renowned German and Korean universities (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Inje University and Dongseo University Busan)
Salary:
○ PostDoc: 66 Mio KRW annually

○ PhD candidate: 30 Mio. KRW annually

Requirements:

PostDoc:
○ PhD degree in Fluid Mechanics or closely related field from an internationally renowned university

○ Hands-on experience with experimental methods in fluid mechanics

○ Excellent research record

○ Outstanding record of peer-reviewed publications

○ Ability to work independently

○ Ability to identify opportunities for research, development, and collaboration

○ Experience in mentoring students

○ Experience in project acquisition is a plus

○ International research experience is a plus

PhD candidate (graduation at the university of the supervising professor, member of the Steering Committee):
○ Master degree in Engineering or Physics from an internationally renowned university

○ Ability to work independently and interdisciplinarily

○ Strong technical and analytical skills

○ Committed, self-dependent, responsible, team-worker

○ Likes to work in a Korean-international environment

○ Good English communication skills

○ Pioneering spirit

LSTME is an equal opportunity employer.

All applicants will be considered based on their qualifications, regardless of ethnicity, sex, disabilities, marital status etc.

Submit:

CV incl. list of publications and possible third party projects
Up to three support letters
Brief description of your research interest and current research
Before 2020.09.30

To:

Prof. Dr. habil. Andreas Wierschem

via Ms. Minji Kim - Secretary of LSTME Busan under minji.kim@lstme.org

In your application, please refer to Polytechnicpositions.com