Job Description
About The Project
The Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences and the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern invite applications for a fully funded postdoc position (2 years + possible 1 year extension). The successful candidate will contribute to an ambitious research project linked to ESA's upcoming RAMSES (Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety), a landmark mission in planetary science and planetary defense.
The position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation project “Characterisation of Near Earth Asteroid Apophis by exploitation of RAMSES mission data”, a joint project of the Division of Space Research and Planetary Sciences (Physics Institute) and the Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern.
The RAMSES mission will rendezvous with the near‑Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis in 2029 and observe its extremely close flyby of Earth; an event that occurs only once every thousand years. This unique natural experiment ...