ESA Graduate Trainee in the Space Safety Programme - Space Weather Office

at  European Space Agency

ESA Graduate Trainee in the Space Safety Programme - Space Weather Office
Job Requisition ID: 19247
Date Posted: 1 February 2025
Closing Date: 28 February 2025 23:59 CET/CEST
Publication: External Only
Type of Contract: ESA Graduate Trainee
Directorate: Operations
Workplace:Darmstadt, DE
Grade Band: F1 - F1

EDUCATION

You should have just completed, or be in the final year of your master’ s degree in applied mathematics, statistics, computer sciences, systems engineering, aerospace engineering, or physics.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

You should have good interpersonal and communication skills and should be able to work in a multicultural environment, both independently and as part of a team. Previous experience of working in international teams can be considered an asset. Your motivation, overall professional perspective and career goals will also be explored during the later stages of the selection process.
A solid background in mathematics, statistics, and programming is required.
Knowledge of a statistical software or a programming language would be an asset.

• Producing a mathematical/statistical model of the impacts of space weather in the European economy, which will be based on the results of previous studies, and on an initial prototype provided by the Agency. You will implement such model into a professionally designed and suitable computer system. The outcome of this activity may be used to influence the strategic choices by the ESA Space Weather Office for the years to come.
• Studying the complex dynamics governing the tightly coupled system connecting the magnetosphere, the ionosphere, the plasmasphere, the radiation belts, and the plasmasphere. The Agency will provide access and computer resources to you to perform numerical studies of this coupling. You will design and propose an approach for the interconnection of different computer models that can address this complex physical system. To this end, you will study, understand, and make use of the Virtual Space Weather Modelling Centre. This study will help the ESA Space Weather Office to better understand the effects of Space Weather in our technology on the ground and in the near-Earth space.
• Evaluating multiple scenarios for the long-term archiving of space weather data and products. You will assess the existing solutions provided by the Agency and other external providers along with recommendations provided by the existing network of service providers for long term data and product preservation. You will perform an analysis of the archive needs for the products in the ESA Space Weather portal that require such service. You will then propose a technical plan and roadmap for implementation of the most promising target archive solution(s)