Jobs
The Scientific Service ‘Reference Systems and Planetology’ of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) is looking for a scientist to work in the Time and Ionosphere team. The successful candidate will strengthen the existing team in the field of GNSS time and frequency transfer. Among other things, he or she will be responsible for operations relating to the Observatory's participation in the European Galileo navigation system. These operations include the calibration and maintenance of GNSS measurement stations, their synchronization with the local realization of UTC called UTC(ORB), the generation and analysis of products used to check the time information transmitted by the Galileo satellites, and the drafting of associated reports.
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, 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.