The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is seeking a highly motivated individual to join a space-weather research project to investigate geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in the Swedish power grid. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between IRF, the Swedish Research Defence Agency, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, and Svenska Kraftnät to improve…
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the Extreme Plasma Flares project, a collaboration between Chalmers, Gothenburg, IRF, Uppsala, and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Plasma flares – explosive releases of magnetic energy – play a central role in such diverse phenomena as solar…
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala is looking for a guest scientist in space physics. Applications are invited for investigations of collisionless shocks. The work involves the analysis of magnetic, electric, and plasma measurements from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and ESA Solar Orbiter and Cluster missions. Our team at IRF in Uppsala…
On July 3 the Swedish led instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) onboard the ESA spacecraft Juice achieved a major milestone with its successful commissioning. Juice has since the launch on April 14 done a remarkable journey spanning 200 million kilometers in space. Professor Stas Barabash at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna is…
The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is seeking a PhD student in space physics for studies of space weather. IRF is seeking a highly motivated individual to join a space-weather research project to investigate geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) in the Swedish power grid. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between IRF, the…
The Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) instrument on the ESA JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has successfully deployed all its sensors and is now delivering science data. The RPWI instrument, a European multinational collaboration together with Japan, is led by researchers at the Swedish Institute of Physics (IRF) in Uppsala. RPWI has three…
Applications are invited for investigations of collisionless shocks. The work involves the analysis of magnetic, electric, and plasma measurements from the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and ESA Solar Orbiter and Cluster missions. Our team at IRF in Uppsala is a leading research group that performs observations, data analysis, and modeling of space plasma processes (www.space.irfu.se)….
At 14.14, Swedish time, on April 14, the European Juice (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) spacecraft was launched from French Guiana with the destination Jupiter and its icy moons Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is responsible for two of the ten scientific instruments on board Europe’s largest scientific space mission…
On March 23, a sounding rocket carrying a scientific experiment from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna was launched from the Esrange space center. Below you find interviews with the IRF scientist Tima Sergienko, Principal Investigator of the experiment and IRF scientist Johan Kero. Thanks to the collected data, the IRF’s space…