Stellenticket Berliner Hochschule für Technik

In the "Engin­eer­ing for Live­stock Man­age­ment" com­pet­ence area, we com­bine veter­in­ary research on stress para­met­ers and germ con­tam­in­a­tion with envir­on­mental research on emis­sions and flow pro­cesses in and around animal hus­bandry facil­it­ies.

For the RES4LIVE an H2020-fun­ded pro­ject “Renew­able Energy Sys­tems: RES solu­tions for zero-fossil fuel con­sump­tion at the farm level in animal pro­duc­tion sys­tems”, we are seek­ing for a

Sci­ent­ist (Postdoc) (m/f/d) (100 %)
for the topic
Example RES solu­tions for zero-fossil fuel con­sump­tion at the farm level in animal pro­duc­tion sys­tems

The suc­cess­ful can­did­ate will be respons­ible for ATB’s task in the H2020 Innov­a­tion Action pro­ject Res4Live. The 4 year pro­ject aims at ensur­ing a wider adop­tion of RES and energy effi­ciency tech­no­lo­gies, machinery and tech­niques in live­stock farms towards zero-fossil fuel con­sump­tion. A great part of its work deals with the adapt­a­tion of spe­cific tech­no­lo­gies for both energy and fuels to per­fectly fit live­stock farm­ing and become attract­ive in terms of cost effect­ive­ness, oper­a­tional flex­ib­il­ity and with low main­ten­ance efforts. Sys­tems shall be suit­able for live­stock build­ings loc­ated in rural areas. The can­did­ate’s tasks will include the integ­ra­tion, test­ing and mon­it­or­ing of RES solu­tions on exper­i­mental and com­mer­cial agri­cul­tural farms. The work will be in close col­lab­or­a­tion with the Ger­man research farm of Lehr- und Ver­such­san­stalt für Tierzucht und Tier­hal­tung e.V. Ruhls­dorf/Groß Kreutz (LVAT). In addi­tion, ATB will con­trib­ute to the tech­nical, socio-eco­nomic and envir­on­mental assess­ment, related to farm applic­a­tion of innov­a­tions in order to decrease fossil fuel depend­ency. All pro­ject part­ners act­ively par­ti­cip­ate in Res4Live cluster activ­it­ies, such as dis­sem­in­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion, and espe­cially close co-oper­a­tion with stake­hold­ers.

Your respons­ib­il­it­ies

• Develop strategies for “dynamic barn cli­mate man­age­ment” to avoid heat stress and increase animal wel­fare under con­di­tions of cli­mate change, optim­ise barn cli­mate by apply­ing self-learn­ing sys­tems
• Develop an on-farm energy man­age­ment sys­tem, using AI and data sci­ence tech­no­lo­gies, aim­ing for 100% energy self-suf­fi­ciency and green­house gas emis­sion reduc­tion
• Integ­rate new RES tech­no­lo­gies (e.g. thermal photo­vol­ta­ics, elec­tri­fied mobile drives, bio­gas/CNG for tract­ors) into on-farm use
• Optim­ise the on-farm energy sys­tem by flex­ible use of renew­able energy car­ri­ers, by energy demand reduc­tion, and by har­mon­isa­tion of energy gen­er­a­tion and demand
• Design, install, test, meas­ure and mon­itor these integ­rated sys­tems at the research farm
• Pro­cess, ana­lyse and exchange data using stat­ist­ical ana­lysis, AI and research data man­age­ment meth­ods
• Con­trib­ute to pro­ject-related dis­sem­in­a­tion activ­it­ies at national and inter­na­tional level and to stake­holder activ­it­ies in gen­eral
• Pub­lish res­ults in peer-reviewed sci­entific journ­als
• Sup­port the pro­ject coordin­ator in man­age­ment tasks and dis­sem­in­a­tion activ­it­ies

Your qual­i­fic­a­tions
Your pro­fes­sional qual­i­fic­a­tion pro­file:

• Excel­lent uni­versity degree (PhD man­dat­ory) in engin­eer­ing, such as mech­an­ical engin­eer­ing, pro­cess and envir­on­mental engin­eer­ing, mechat­ron­ics, energy engin­eer­ing & man­age­ment, renew­able energy sys­tems engin­eer­ing; agri­cul­tural engin­eer­ing with a focus on animal hus­bandry
• Research exper­i­ence and know­ledge in European live­stock sys­tems with a focus on dairy is wel­come
• Pro­found research exper­i­ence and know­ledge in European RES sys­tems in terms of energy gen­er­a­tion (e.g. bio­gas, PVT), energy usage tech­no­lo­gies (e.g. elec­tric and CNG-powered drives), energy man­age­ment sys­tems for optim­iz­a­tion of oper­a­tional energy usage
• Energy flow assess­ment, smart con­trol and sim­u­la­tion
• AI and data sci­ence meth­od­o­lo­gies are wel­come
• Know­ledge of meth­ods to assess agri­cul­ture in terms of envir­on­ment, eco­nomy, and soci­ety is wel­come
• Very good know­ledge of stat­ist­ical data ana­lysis and exper­i­ence in related soft­ware (e.g. Python, R, MAT­LAB)
• Flu­ent Eng­lish lan­guage pro­fi­ciency and proven abil­ity to write sci­entific pub­lic­a­tions
• Com­mand of the Ger­man lan­guage is most wel­come, interest in learn­ing Ger­man is required
• Exper­i­ence in pro­ject man­age­ment

Per­sonal qual­i­fic­a­tion:

• Inde­pend­ent, self-respons­ible, reli­able and res­ult-ori­ented way of work­ing
• Abil­ity to ana­lyse com­plex data and situ­ations
• Strong com­mu­nic­a­tion and team­work skills, abil­ity to cooper­ate, flex­ib­il­ity, com­mit­ment, abil­ity to work under pres­sure, reli­ab­il­ity
• Will­ing­ness to travel, occa­sion­ally across Europe, valid driv­ing license for use in Europe (min. cat­egory B)
• Cross-cul­tural com­pet­ence

• Your par­ti­cip­a­tion in a transna­tional, excel­lent pro­ject con­sor­tium
• Your con­tri­bu­tion to provide solu­tions to rel­ev­ant soci­etal chal­lenges
• Excel­lent infra­struc­ture for car­ry­ing out sci­entific work
• Attract­ive, inter­dis­cip­lin­ary work­ing envir­on­ment and very good con­di­tions to develop your own sci­entific career and your net­work
• Fam­ily-friendly work­ing con­di­tions that foster the com­pat­ib­il­ity of work and fam­ily life
• Com­pany-owned elec­tric bicycles for busi­ness trips
• Par­ti­cip­a­tion on the VBB com­pany ticket
• Our insti­tute is loc­ated on the edge of a pic­tur­esque park-like land­scape and is easy to reach by pub­lic trans­port or by bike

This full-time pos­i­tion (100 %) is lim­ited until Septem­ber 30th, 2024 accord­ing to the end of the pro­ject. Fol­low-up fin­an­cing is being con­sidered. Please indic­ate your earli­est avail­ab­il­ity.
The salary is based on your qual­i­fic­a­tion and pro­fes­sional exper­i­ence accord­ing to TV-L up to salary group 13.

For fur­ther inform­a­tion, please con­tact Prof. Dr. Thomas Amon (E-Mail tamon@atb-potsdam.de) and visit our web­site www.atb-potsdam.de.

If you would like to con­trib­ute your pro­fes­sional com­pet­ence to our inter­dis­cip­lin­ary research, please apply by the fol­low­ing dead­line Feb­ru­ary 22th, 2023 using ATB’s online applic­a­tion form for the job advert­ise­ment, code 2023-5-1, at https://www.atb-potsdam.de/en/career/vacancies. Applic­a­tions received after the applic­a­tion dead­line can­not be con­sidered.

Equal­ity of oppor­tun­ity is part of our per­son­nel policy. Dis­abled applic­ants with adequate qual­i­fic­a­tion will be pref­er­en­tially con­sidered.

By sub­mit­ting an applic­a­tion, you agree that your job applic­a­tion doc­u­ments will be stored for a period of six months, even in the case of an unsuc­cess­ful applic­a­tion. Fur­ther inform­a­tion on the pro­cessing, stor­age and pro­tec­tion of your per­sonal data can be found at https://www.atb-potsdam.de/en/services/data-protection-declaration-for-the-application-process.