Research engineer specializing in analog electronics Within the Solar System Physics and Space Technology research program we explore the solar system. The group consists of scientists and engineers with different specialist skills who work together to develop and deliver space instruments for national and international scientific satellites. The projects are usually carried out together with…
Post-Doctoral Position in Space Plasma Physics with focus on the lunar environment Applicants are invited for a position for data analysis and numerical simulations related to the Moon – solar wind interaction. The selected candidate will work in a successful research group, the Solar System Physics and Space Technology program (SSPT) at IRF. The group…
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position with a focus on the validation of measurements with ATLID. Background: The EarthCARE satellite will be launched later this year. One of the instruments on board will be a lidar, ATLID. In order to evaluate the quality of ATLID observations, data products need to be validated with concurrent…
Collisionless shock meeting (IRF Uppsala 26-27 January 2023) Welcome to the collisionless shock meeting held in IRF Uppsala on 26-27 January. This meeting was organised in relation to our participation in the EU H2020 project SHARP. The meeting is hybrid with in-person as well as online participation. Location within IRF: house 8, floor 3, room…
Swedish Institute of Space Physics is looking for a post-doctoral position, placed in Lund, in space weather with focus on detection and characterization of coronal mass ejections. Space weather impacts technology through physical processes originating from the Sun and its interaction with the Earth’s magnetosphere and ionosphere. The effects on technology are well-known and may…
An artist’s concept of the Saturnian plasma sheet based on data from the Cassini observations. Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (NASA/JPL/JHUAPL) We send scientific instruments into space or on the ground to investigate the space plasma environment around the Earth and other planets in the Solar system. Below you can read…
Planetary Ionospheres An ionosphere is a “buffer” between the space environment of a planet and its atmosphere. It is created within its atmosphere mostly by solar extreme ultra violet radiation (EUV), although minor contributions from energetic particle impacts and cosmic rays are often also present. Studies of ionospheres provide us with understanding of an atmosphere’s…
An international team of scientists led by Lucile Turc from the University of Helsinki has used simulations and satellite observations to explain the propagation of foreshock waves to the magnetosheath. Andrew Dimmock and Andreas Johlander are researchers at IRF Uppsala who participated in the study. The Sun continually emits a supersonic stream of charged particles….
A permanent research position: Scientist in Space Plasma Physics with focus on the analysis of data from planetary missions. Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) is a leading research institute in the field of planetary magnetospheres and solar wind interactions with a focus on particle measurements. Applicants are invited for a position for processing and…