Space Weather Expert
Breda
Full time (40 hours per week)
Medior-Senior
About this job
We are currently looking for a Space Weather Expert to join the team in Breda. Working remotely is also an option.
As a Space Weather Expert, you will be working on projects that aim to provide information related to Space, Oceanography, and Meteorology, maintaining and implementing developments in the field of Space Weather, and initiating and coordinating the necessary research. Given the importance of this field, you will also participate in designing and providing training courses.
Job details
Space Weather Expert
Main responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining the national Space Weather service, by drawing the requirements cooperating with experts in the field and related research institutes, and integrating the relevant developments
- Defining the options and priorities for several projects and communicating them to the management team
- Assisting in determining the research boundaries and coordinating the implementations
- Analyse the existing knowledge gaps and define how to solve them
- Liaise with customers and cooperating institutes to advise and implement the necessary policies related to the implications of Space Weather
- Developing and delivering courses and training regarding Space Weather
- Supervising and supporting junior colleagues and working students
- Keeping track of the progress and scientific literature in the field of Space Weather
- Participating in national and international events in the field of Space Weather
Requirements
- Completed Master’s or PhD in the fields of Physics, Mathematics, or similar fields
- 5+ years of experience working with Space Weather preferably in academia, and expertise in solar activity is considered a plus
- Experience programming with Python, R, or data visualisation tools
- Comprehension of systems and the SPWX influence on them
- Expertise with operational and experimental computer models and their usage for space weather
- Capacity to analyse scientific literature
- Experience working in project-base arrangements
- Skilled in giving presentations both in international and national events
- Mandatory fluency in English and Dutch (preferable), both written and spoken
Are you enthusiastic about becoming our new Space Weather Expert?
Apply via our application form, or send your CV and motivational letter
directly to recruitment@stcorp.nl.
Our story
At S[&]T we contribute to a safer life on earth by translating space data into valuable and actionable insights. We oversee data from instruments to application, and apply our expertise within our software frameworks, information products and consultancy.
Our society relies on space and scientific instruments for climate change monitoring, navigation, defence and national security, and other crucial services we all use in our daily lives. These instruments produce an enormous quantity of complex data, and our goal is to unlock its value.
We have more than 20 years of experience working on instrument calibration, the creation of data quality monitoring tools, the development of real-time data processing frameworks, and the development of application-specific algorithms. With this, we help organisations, governments and industries to strengthen their information position and thereby improve their decision making. We focus on the following domains: Space & Science, Defence & Security, Environment & Sustainability, and High-Tech Consulting.
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How to apply
Would you like to hear more? Send your CV and
motivational letter to
recruitment@stcorp.nl
or
apply directly
through our website.
Kindly note that acquisition from third parties (e.g.
agencies) based on this vacancy is not welcome.