DTU Tenure Track Researcher in Mesoscale Modelling – DTU Wind

Are you looking for a guided long-term position at DTU to establish a scientific career within meteorology and the wind energy sector. This Tenure Track position is an ideal way for you to kick-start your professional development in this exciting area providing new knowledge for the green energy transition. You will be among meteorologist working on understanding various meteorological phenomena across difference scales, that impact wind energy, and vice versa. Our research is needed in the process of planning, designing, and operating wind energy installations. This can be at the scale of individual turbines, wind farms, or even wind farm clusters spanning hundreds of kilometers. Your research will be used in close collaboration with others in the department and international partners. This Tenure Track position entails personal career development in the areas of research and innovation, teaching, and attracting research funding.

Responsibilities and qualifications
The focus of this position will be the investigation of meteorological phenomena impacting the wind energy sector, in particular with respect to wind resources and wind conditions. For example, investigating how large-scale wind farm clusters may impact atmospheric and sea conditions over different time and space scales, investigating how wind farm yields may be impacted by proximity of neighbouring wind farm clusters, and understanding different kinds of extreme meteorological events and how these may impact wind energy based power and energy systems. As well being involved in research projects you will take part in highly relevant scientific advice projects, applying your scientific knowledge. You will also be expected to contribute to research project proposals.

The central competences required in this research are meteorology, mesoscale modelling, analysis and interpretation of meteorological datasets. We are also interested in hearing from researchers with oceanographic, as well as meteorological, science background.

The applicant should have:

• A PhD in meteorology, climatology or other related fields
• Experience in mesoscale modelling, preferably WRF
• Experience of scientific programming and running code on HPC systems
• Experience with Fortran, Python and Linux Shell
• Experience working with large datasets

Preferred but not essential:

• Knowledge of wind farm parameterizations in mesoscale models
• Experience in the field of wave modelling or coupled wind-wave modelling
• Experience with wind resource assessment and site suitability, including WAsP and WEng software
• Experience using wind turbine wake models
• Knowledge of meteorological measurements and their use in model validation
• Experience with industrial collaboration
• Experience with collaborative programming and GitLab
• Experience contributing to research project proposals

In addition, the candidate should have:

• Ability to work independently
• Ability to work as part of a team in a multi-disciplinary environment
• Ability to take initiative, prioritize and work to deliverable deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

You must contribute to the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Research experience
• Experience and quality of teaching
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process here.

You can read more about career paths at DTU here.

Further information  
Further information may be obtained from Head of Section Jake Badger jaba@dtu.dk and Professor Xiaoli Guo Larsén xgal@dtu.dk.

You can read more about DTU Wind at https://wind.dtu.dk/ .

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark.

Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 10 June 2025 (23:59 Danish time).

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link “Apply now”, fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• Vision for teaching and research for the tenure track period
• CV including employment history, list of publications, H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

You can learn more about the recruitment process here.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

At DTU Wind and Energy Systems, our research spans the full spectrum of wind and energy systems. From investigating nanoscale structures to macro-scale atmospheric flow; from designing the turbines of tomorrow to the digital energy solutions of the future; from developing electric power systems to exploring more democratic processes for project planning.

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