IRSOL carries out fundamental research in solar physics, with a focus on solar magnetism. The Institute’s mission is to understand solar magnetic phenomena to a detail that is needed for forecasting solar activity evolution and its effects on the space weather and terrestrial climate. This is achieved by combining the unique strengths of IRSOL in high-precision solar spectropolarimetry with advanced approaches in theoretical and numerical modeling, computational and data science, and magneto-hydrodynamic simulations. IRSOL’s 45 cm telescope, the largest ground-based solar optical telescope in Switzerland, is equipped with the world-leading high-precision solar imaging polarimeter ZIMPOL, high-resolution Czerny-Turner spectrograph, and a Fabry-Pérot etalon-based instrument allowing for imaging polarimetry in combination with the ZIMPOL and spectrograph. This unique observational facility has been recognized as research infrastructure of national importance.
The instrumentation scientist/engineer will work in the group “Observations and Instrumentation”. The group consists of several (astro)physicists working on scientific projects as well as the operation, maintenance, and further development of the telescope and instrumentation. Details on the position can be found at the IRSOL webpage.