Posted by NA | August 31, 2024 | Employment Opportunities

Solar Orbiter is ESA’s leading deep space solar observatory, orbiting the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit with a perihelion below 0.3 au. One of the cornerstone instruments onboard Solar Orbiter is the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI). Operating since 2020, EUI consists of 3 telescopes imaging the solar corona at the highest spatial resolution and largest field of view ever. As a consequence, the scientific return of EUI has been spectacular so far. A significant fraction of the nominal lifetime of EUI (which is about 10 years) has passed and continuous monitoring of health and performance of the EUI telescopes and their CMOS imaging sensors becomes increasingly important. For example, the long-term degradation of the EUI sensors under EUV light is being assessed as we go.

In order to continue ensuring these ongoing EUI calibration activities, the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) is seeking to hire a EUI calibration scientist. The selected candidate will work within the EUI PI team at ROB, which is a small team (4 people) within the bigger solar physics group (SIDC, Solar Influences Data analysis Centre) at ROB of about 50 people from a diverse background. The selected candidate will interact frequently with the international EUI consortium outside ROB and with related projects and researchers within ROB/SIDC.

For further details about the position, please visit https://www.astro.oma.be/en/information/jobs/.
Applications should be sent to David Berghmans ([email protected]), Cis Verbeeck ([email protected]) and [email protected] no later than September 20, 2024.