Postdoc - Research Data Management and Data Visualization

Postdoc - Research Data Management and Data Visualization

HZDR - Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

Görlitz, Germany

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.

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