Junior Research Position, Planetary Plasma - Hannover, Deutschland - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

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Hannover, Deutschland

vor 3 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung

The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen conducts fundamental research in the field of solar system sciences.

With its approximately 300 staff members, it is one of the leading institutes in the field of solar physics and planetary science.

In particular, the institute is involved in numerous international space missions.

a three-year Junior Research Position (f/m/d)

in the Planetary Plasma Environments (PPE) group for:

(a) Work on the European Space Agency (ESA)-funded project TRAPPED (Template for Radiation and Plasma Particle Environment Description). MPS/PPE participates in this project as part of an international consortium led by ONERA (Toulouse, France), together with IRAP (Toulouse, France) and the Academy of Athens (Greece).

- (b) Research on the magnetospheres of outer planets in the context of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) mission, which is scheduled to be launched in April this year. MPS/PPE participates in the JUICE mission through the international consortium of the Particle Environment Package (PEP) instrument, for which it has delivered one of its six sensor units (Jovian Electron Ion/JEI sensor).

The position is expected to begin on 21 April, 2023, with a few weeks of flexibility possible.
Application period

Duration of contract:

3 years in total, out of which ~9 person months devoted to the TRAPPED project

Salary:

- according to the German public salary scale TVöD E13

Projects:

- (a)

TRAPPED project:

The TRAPPED consortium will develop empirical plasma and radiation environment models for Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, in support of planning future ESA solar system exploration missions and projects.

MPS is leading two work packages of the project (relevant to the review and processing of charged particle datasets at Saturn and the validation of the resulting empirical Saturn models).

It has also contributions to other work packages, relevant to the model development.
- (b)

Magnetospheres of Outer Planets and JUICE mission-related research:

The focus of the proposed research should map to key areas of research that will take place with JUICE and PEP, dealing for instance with the charged particle environment of Jupiter's magnetosphere and its dynamical variations, the physics of moon-magnetosphere interactions or the space weathering of Jupiter's moons.

Research methods may rely on data analysis (including comparative planetology), simulations, or a combination of both. Data may come from past missions like Galileo and Cassini, or ongoing missions, like Juno.

Position requirements:

Application documents:

As a scientific institution, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research offers an attractive and sophisticated environment with the possibility of implementing one's own ideas and concepts.