UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Space physics. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Ingrid Mann. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Space physics as presented by Professor Ingrid Mann:

The physics of the heliosphere and the local interstellar medium, ionospheres, and magnetospheres. Topics include cosmic dust, meteors and meteoroids, dust growth, dust-plasma interactions and dusty plasma phenomena, small bodies in the solar system and in extra-solar planetary systems. Theoretical and observational projects can be linked, for example, to the Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons and Comet Interceptor space missions. Northern Norway has an excellent infrastructure of observation instruments for ionospheric studies including EISCAT and the new EISCAT_3D phased array radar. A rocket launch from Andøya in northern Norway to explore the mesosphere is planned for 2025. Projects can be embedded and linked into existing international collaborations. Further information can be found on the website.

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to ingrid.b.mann@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.