Postdoc (f/m/d) Research Data Management and Data Visualization

With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are committed to mastering the great challenges facing society today.

The Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS) is a German-Polish research center for data-intensive digital systems research.

The Department of Scientific Computing Core is looking for a Postdoc (f/m/d) Research Data Management and Data Visualization. 

Your tasks

• Work with existing APIs for data access from various sources and design own APIs; combine different kinds of data such as sampled field data, geo-spatial data, and simulated model data
• Design and extend data handling and data management solutions; based on this, design and implement procedures and workflows for the project
• Adapt workflow systems and High Performance Computing for automated processing, then use the results to implement the automated data and model processing in the project
• Track metadata from input data and from processing steps; storage and manage metadata in a structured way
• Feed data from model simulation back to Edaphobase together with the relevant metadata and in the way Edaphobase expects them
• Extend visualisation and interactive exploration in the Edaphobase web portal with a focus on exploring model predictions in combination with existing data
• Present results at conferences and workshops, publish joint scientific papers, representation and presentation of the project, project reporting

Your profile

• Completed university studies (PhD) in the field of Computer Science or a matching application area with a strong Computational Science focus; familiarity with Biodiversity Research, Macro-Ecology, Soil Ecology or related fields
• Relevant professional experience in the specified area
• Experience with Research Data Management in theory and practice
• Familiarity with structured data formats and schemas (JSON or similar) and metadata handling, schemas, ontologies

• Skills in web development, scientific visualization, interactive web GUIs are a plus
• Practical experience in collaborative software development, git version control, gitlab, or similar; experience with git-annex or Datalad are a plus
• Advanced programming skills in Pyhon, Julia or similar and past contributions to research software projects; more programming languages or parallel programming skills are a plus
• Good English language skills in a professional context, German language skills are a plus

Our offer

• A vibrant research community in an open, diverse and international work environment
• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• Salary and social benefits in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD-Bund) including 30 days of paid holiday leave, company pension scheme (VBL)
• We support a good work-life balance with the possibility of part-time employment, mobile working and flexible working hours
• Numerous company health management offerings
• Employee discounts with well-known providers via the platform Corporate Benefits
• An employer subsidy for the "Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket"

We look forward to receiving your application documents (including cover letter, CV, diplomas/transcripts, etc.), which you can submit via our online-application-system.