PhD – Leipzig Graduate School for Aerosols, Clouds and Radiation (LGS-CAR) at Leipzig University

The Leipzig Graduate School for Aerosols, Clouds and Radiation (LGS-CAR) was initiated in 2012 through a Leibniz competition project and continued permanently afterwards. It bundles expertise from Leipzig University and TROPOS to train doctoral researchers in the physical and chemical processes of aerosols, clouds and their radiative effects, with eight professorships supporting atmospheric chemistry, physics and modelling.

Department: Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) with Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Institute for Analytical Chemistry, Leipzig University  |  Study mode: structured doctoral programme  |  Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

What you will study

Research areas are aerosols (particle formation, emission, chemical processing, air quality), clouds (ice nucleation, dynamics, mixed-phase and multiphase chemical processes) and radiation (cloud-aerosol-radiation interactions, radiative forcing, remote sensing). Training combines advanced training modules, doctoral talks and an external programme of conferences, summer or winter schools, at least two soft-skill courses at the Graduate Academy Leipzig, research stays abroad and annual workshops, with 10 credit points collected in each of two areas.

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