LEDIG STILLING VED UIT NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Space Physics
Deadline: 16.05.2024
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
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Faculty of Science and Technology
The position
The Department for Physics and Technology, at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, announces a vacant position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of Space Physics. The position is a fixed term position for a duration of 3 years, and is financed through the UiT High Score programme.
Appointment to the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow is mainly intended to provide qualification for work in top academic positions. It is a prerequisite that the applicant can carry out the project over the full course of the employment period. No person may hold more than one fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same institution.
The workplace is at UiT in Tromsø. You must be able to start in the position within 6 months after receiving the offer.
The position's field of research
The postion is affliated to the MXD2 rocket project that makes in-situ measurements of charged dust and the surrounding plasma and collects dust material.The postion's work is linked with the study of dust particles in the mesosphere and their interaction with ionosphere plasma.
The MXD2 rocket campaign funded by ESA-PRODEX is scheduled with a launch from Andøya, Norway in summer 2025. The payload is built at UiT and collaborating institutions in Norway, Sweden and Germany. The campaign will be supported with ground observations from the ALOMAR observatory and with EISCAT radar. They include radar meteors, polar mesospheric summer echoes and noctilucent clouds.
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will take a leading role in the rocket campaign and collaboration of the international team. The successful candidate will prepare the observations and work with the in-situ results on charged dust and the results from sample analysis to investigate the dust in the mesosphere. This includes the handling of the rocket data and participating in the sample analysis in collaboration with optical analytics experts. Archived data from ground-based and rocket observations are available for support and back-up.
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will work under the supervision of the project leader Professor Ingrid Mann and will closely work together with PhD students and Master students, as well as local, national, and international collaborators.
Contact
For further information about the position, please contact:
Professor Ingrid Mann, phone: +47 776 45198, email: ingrid.b.mann@uit.no
Qualifications
Candidates should have a background in physics, space physics, plasma physics, geophysics, planetary science, or a related field. Of particular interest are candidates who have experience in one or more of the following areas: cosmic dust, meteors, ionosphere, space measurements, radar observations, space in situ instruments, image analysis.
Qualification with a PhD is required before commencement in the position. If you’re at the final stages of your PhD, you may still apply if you have submitted your PhD thesis for doctoral degree evaluation within the application deadline. You must submit the thesis with your application. You must have dissertated before the start-up date of the position.
Fluency in English is required. Nordic applicants can document their capabilities by attaching their high school diploma.
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow position is intended to prepare candidates for a research career and the needed research background and motivation are a prerequisite.
During the assessment emphasis will be put on the candidate’s motivation, potential for research, and personal suitability for the position.
We are looking for candidates who:
Have good communication skills
Is able to successfully participate in international collaborations and work in an interdisciplinary manner.
Wants to contribute to a good working environment
For appointment as Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the applicant is required to have a Norwegian doctoral degree in the subject area concerned or a corresponding foreign doctoral degree recognized as equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree.
At UiT we put emphasis on the quality, relevance and significance of the research work and not on where the work is published, in accordance with the principles of The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
Inclusion and diversity
UiT The Arctic University i Norway is working actively to promote equality, gender balance and diversity among employees and students, and to create an inclusive and safe working environment. We believe that inclusion and diversity is a strength, and we want employees with different competencies, professional experience, life experience and perspectives.
If you have a disability, a gap in your CV or immigrant background, we encourage you to tick the box for this in your application. If there are qualified applicants, we invite least one in each group for an interview. If you get the job, we will adapt the working conditions if you need it. Apart from selecting the right candidates, we will only use the information for anonymous statistics.
We offer
Involvement in an interesting research project
Good career opportunities
A good academic environment with dedicated colleagues
Flexible working hours and a state collective pay agreement
Pension scheme through the state pension fund
Salary of approx. NOK 594 500 per year as a minimum
Norwegian health policy aims to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their personal finances and where they live, has access to good health and care services of equal standard. As an employee you will become member of the National Insurance Scheme which also include health care services.
More practical information for working and living in Norway can be found here.
Application
Your application must include:
Application letter, detailing your motivation for the position
Description of your academic production, stating which works you consider most important
The academic works (published or not) you wish us to take into consideration in the assessment
All documentation to be considered must be in a Scandinavian language or English. If English proficiency is not documented in the application, it must be documented before starting in the position. We only accept applications and documentation sent via Jobbnorge within the application deadline.
Assessment
In the assessment the main emphasis will be attached to the submitted works for the qualifying work. Emphasis shall also be attached to experience from popularization/dissemination and academic policy and administrative activity.
The applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. The committee's mandate is to undertake an assessment of the applicants' qualifications based on the written material presented by the applicants, and the detailed description draw up for the position.
The applicants who are assessed as best qualified will be called to an interview. The interview should among other things, aim to clarify the applicant’s motivation and personal suitability for the position. A trial lecture may also be held.
General information
The appointment is made in accordance with State regulations and guidelines at UiT. At our website, you will find more information for applicants.
The remuneration for Postdoctoral research fellow is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1352. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted. You will become a member of the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund, which gives you many benefits in addition to a lifelong pension: You may be entitled to financial support if you become ill or disabled, your family may be entitled to financial support when you die, you become insured against occupational injury or occupational disease, and you can get good terms on a mortgage. Read more about your employee benefits at: spk.no.
The successful candidate must be willing to get involved in the ongoing development of their department and the university as a whole.
UiT wishes to promote gender equality. If two or more applicants are found to be equally qualified, the university will rank applicants from the underrepresented gender ahead of others.
According to the Norwegian Freedom and Information Act (Offentleglova) information about the applicant may be included in the public applicant list, also in cases where the applicant has requested non-disclosure.
