Applications are invited for a two-year Research Associate position in the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London. The research would involve data analysis, interpretation and modelling in space and/or planetary physics to complement and advance areas of interest within the Group.… continue to the full article

A part time, fixed term position is available to provide mission support in respect of validation and verification of the SWARM multi-spacecraft data. ESA is due to launch the SWARM mission, in 2012 as part of its Earth Explorer programme. SWARM consists of three-satellites flying in polar low earth orbits, and therefore will contribute to the geomagnetic element of the Earth Observation programme.… continue to the full article

UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral scientist to undertake research in the area of solar physics, principally through analysis of Hinode and related datasets. MSSL is the UK’s largest university based space science research institution and is involved in many leading research missions.… continue to the full article

From Judy Karpen:

A civil service position is available in the Heliophysics Science
Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, for a supervisory
astrophysicist to serve as Chief of the Space Weather Laboratory. The
mission of the Space Weather Laboratory is to perform fundamental
research and modeling of the coupled Sun-Earth system, with particular
emphasis on the space weather effects important to NASA and the nation.… continue to the full article

Department: School of Physics and Astronomy
Salary: £30,500 to £33,944 (grade 4)
Reference: 12004/NL
Date posted: 17-01-2012
Closing date: 09-03-2012

Job description:
http://webapps.qmul.ac.uk/hr/vacancies/spec.php?id=2799
Please ensure you read this document before applying.

Overview: The Astronomy Unit (AU) at Queen Mary University of London has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant entitled “Advanced model of solar radio bursts via plasma kinetic simulation”.… continue to the full article

Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Applied Mathematics

Northumbria University (School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences)

Dear colleagues,

Northumbria University (at Newcastle) is advertising a permanent academic position in its Mathematics and Statistics division (located in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences).… continue to the full article

These positions are part of the 5-year advanced grant project “Cosmic Dust in the Terrestrial Atmosphere (CODITA)”, funded by the European Research Council. You will join an international team studying the evolution of dust from comets and its impact in the atmospheres of the Earth and other solar system bodies.… continue to the full article

UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory is seeking a software engineer to undertake software programming and data archiving, for the storage and access to the Hinode spacecraft data archive, spacecraft operations and applying analysis techniques to medical intensive care data. MSSL is the UK’s largest university based space science research institution and is involved in many leading research missions (http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk).… continue to the full article

The EISCAT Scientific Association will appoint a new Director from January 2013. The successful candidate will have a strong scientific background with broad experience in geospace and atmospheric physics or related fields, as well as good technical insight and excellent organisational skills.… continue to the full article

Job Vacancies in Geomagnetism at the British Geological Survey

Two three-year appointments within the Geomagnetism group of the British Geological Survey,
based in Edinburgh, are now available.

These posts are concerned mainly with research into the internal magnetic field of the Earth, but
one has an external field (space science) aspect to it too.… continue to the full article