The Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS) is an institute of the Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB). The FVB comprises eight non-university research institutes in Berlin which are funded by the federal and state governments. The research institutes are members of the Leibniz Association.
WIAS invites applications for a
Research Assistant Position
(Ref. 14/41)
in the Research Group
”Nonlinear
Optimization and Inverse Problems”
(Head: Prof. Dr. Dietmar
Hömberg) starting at the earliest possible date.
Within the project of a third-party funding,
the applicant will develop
new algorithms for special technical applications and put these into software.
Applicants must at a minimum hold a master’s
degree in mathematics, physics or computer science. Applicants with PhDs are welcome. The
successful candidate should have profound knowledge on at least two of the
fields:
·
Modeling of time-harmonic waves
·
Efficient
numerical methods for the solution of Maxwell’s equations
·
Numerical
methods of nonlinear optimization and optimal control
Please direct your queries to Dr. Andreas Rathsfeld (Andreas.Rathsfeld@wias-berlin.de).
The
salary is according to the German federal public service tariff. The
appointment is limited for two years (at most until June 30,
2017).
The Weierstrass
Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We explicitly encourage female
researchers to apply for the offered position. Among equally qualified
applicants, disabled candidates will be given preference.
All applicants’ materials
(curriculum vitae, photocopies of certificates and a list of publications,
including a cover letter) shall be sent with the reference number 14/41 exclusively
in electronic form in a single pdf file by December 14, 2014, to: