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Join our team! New position for PhD student

PhD Student in Global Heat Flow and Lithospheric Thermal Structure

 

  • Start Date: 1 November 2025 (at the earliest possible)
  • Duration: 3 years, part-time (75%, ~29.25 h/week)
  • Salary: Classified under TVöD Bund (Ost), E13
  • Location: Potsdam, at the Albert Einstein Science Park, Germany
  • Application Deadline: 7 September 2025 via GFZ’s online portal:

Apply: https://www.gfz.de/en/career/job-offers/details/10667

Release Note 2025.21

14 August 2025

A new version of the portal has just been released. A brief overview of the changes plus a discussion section can be found here: https://github.com/ihfc-iugg/ghfdb-portal/discussions/58

heatflow.world - the launching ceremony

08 July 2025

The portal has been launched under the domain portal.heatflow.world. The event took place at GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, in Potsdam Germany, on 8 July 2025. Find here an overview of all the presentations given at this event.

01 | Introduction & Background
by Sven Fuchs
02 | FAIR heat flow data
by Kirsten Elger
03 | The global collaborative data assessment
by Florian Neumann, Samah Elbarbary, Elif Pazvantoğlu
04 | Research Data Infrastructure
by Sam Jennings
05 | Heat flow visualization
by Nikolas Ott & Sven Fuchs
06 | Geodynamics and surface heat flow
by Ivone Jiménez-Munt

Presentation by invited speaker.

07 | Planetary heat flow
by Tilman Spohn

Presentation by invited speaker.

08 | Future steps and outlook
by Sven Fuchs
09 | Heat flow for geoenergy and geodynamics
by Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

Presentation by invited speaker.

10 | Open data for AI
by Wolfgang zu Castell-Rüdenhausen

Presentation by invited speaker.

11 | Heat flow and the IUGG
by Alexander Rudloff (IUGG General Secretary)

Presentation by invited speaker.

12 The Launching Ceremony
by Susanne Buiter, Sven Fuchs & Community

The final push.