This post is a permanent Lectureship or Associate Professorship in Space Instrumentation Engineering at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics.
The successful applicant will pursue a competitive original research programme, complementary to MSSL’s existing research and technology involvements and aligned with MSSL’s strategic goals. They will actively pursue opportunities leading to novel instrument technologies, future space missions and/or space instrument roles aligned with the Department’s strategic science interests. They will also contribute to our space engineering teaching programme.
Applicants with expertise in space instrumentation development (in situ and/or remote sensing), CubeSat engineering, embedded software, or satellite communications are particularly welcomed, but applications are not restricted to those with this type of experience.
MSSL’s instrumentation and technology development programme supports research that spans solar system and astrophysical environments. Our researchers study the physical processes behind the activity taking place in the solar atmosphere and the interactions between the Sun, the heliosphere, the Earth, the other planets and minor bodies within in the solar system, as well as planetary surfaces and habitability. Astrophysics research includes, but is not limited to, planet and exoplanet formation, galaxy formation and evolution, high energy astrophysics and cosmology. Our technology programme therefore spans the full breadth of in situ and remote sensing instrument development, including cryogenics. Currently and recently operating space science missions using instrument hardware from MSSL include Cluster, Hinode, Swift, XMM-Newton, GAIA, JUICE, Solar Orbiter, Euclid, PLATO and SMILE. Instruments for the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover mission, Vigil and SOLAR-C are currently in development. MSSL staff led or co-led proposals that resulted in the Cryosat, SMILE and Comet Interceptor missions.
More information on the position is available from this web page.