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The position is in space weather research in the field of space plasma physics. Applications are invited for post-doctoral or guest scientist position related to space weather studies in the field of space plasma physics. The studies are based on the investigation of the space weather link between the dynamics of the terrestrial magnetosheath during…
The Solar System Physics and Space Technology research programme at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna invites applications for PhD positions to study how the solar wind interacts with bodies in the solar system. We are looking for two students in the following science topic areas: Mars-solar wind interaction, related to the ESA…
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) participates in a new 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), initiated in February 2020. With its four-year project until January 2024, Europlanet 2024 RI is going to provide open access to the world’s largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities, as well as a…
Publications by IRF scientists 2019 Refereed publications Akbari, H., L. Andersson, D. J. Andrews, D. Malaspina, M. Benna, R. Ergun, In Situ Electron Density From Active Sounding: The Influence of the Spacecraft Wake, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2019GL084121, 2019. Ala-Lahti, M., E. K. J. Kilpua, J. Soucek, T. I. Pulkkinen, A. P. Dimmock, Alfven Ion Cyclotron…
A researcher from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, is a member of the international research team that has detected twisted radio beams from the famous black hole in the M87 galaxy. The radiation discovered reveals unique properties of black holes. IRF researcher Bo Thidé has, together with Fabrizio Tamburini (Germany/Italy) and Massimo Della…
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position studying on the plasma environment around Venus. The studies are based on data analysis using observations made by the Venus Express spacecraft. Venus Express spent more than eight years in orbit around Venus (2006-2014). The ion mass spectrometer on-board measured ions in the energy range 10 eV-36 keV…
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics, IRF, is one step closer to being able to send up a satellite instrument to study Neptune and its moon Triton. The American space agency NASA has selected TRIDENT as one of four mission concepts to be developed further for final selection in April 2021 as part of its…
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) seek a research engineer with focus on space mission operations and on-ground data processing software development. The tasks include science operation support, primarily for this position for the ESA’s and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury and software development for processing, archiving, and display of data. The selected candidate will…