Doctoral Researcher, Space Physics, Faculty of Science
About this role
Faculty of Science, Space Physics and Astronomy
The University of Oulu is a multidisciplinary, international research university, with about 4000 employees who produce new knowledge based on high-standards research and provide research based education to build a more sustainable, smarter, and more humane world. The University of Oulu community has about 19,000 people in total. Our northern scientific community operates globally and creates conditions for the emergence of innovations. The University of Oulu is ranked in the top 3% of the world's universities. All our research, education, and community activities are guided by our university's values and ethical principles.
We are now looking for a
Doctoral Researcher
for a maximum of four years, starting at the earliest on 1st of January 2027 to work in a Research Council of Finland project Space climate of cosmic ray anisotropies - SOCRATES, led by Dr. Pauli Väisänen, in collaboration with the other researchers of the Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit (SPA RU) at the Faculty of Science. The SPA RU includes research groups in Ionospheric Physics, Space Climate, Cosmic Rays, and Astronomy.
The unit is a part of the Finnish Centre of Excellence and is involved in several large-scale research projects. It is involved in top-level research, both experimental and theoretical, in the fields of heliospheric, magnetospheric, and ionospheric physics, cosmic rays and atmospheric effects, and planetary sciences. This position is open in the Cosmic Rays research group led by Professor Ilya Usoskin. The successful applicant will work in a compact, active, dynamic, and highly international research group.
About the job
The Space climate of cosmic ray anisotropies - SOCRATES project aims to detect low-amplitude cosmic ray anisotropies using neutron monitor and other near-Earth space and ground level observations. The ultimate goal is to analyse these anisotropies to perform tomography of different heliospheric direc