The CELESTINA-SPARC project (“Servicio de investigación, innovación y sensibilización en meteorología espacial desde la Castilla rural”) announces one research contract to work on the set-up of a SPace-weather Awareness and Research Data Center. The project, led by Dr. Javier Bussons (Physics) and Manuel Prieto (Engineering) is funded by the Agencia de Investigación e Innovación de Castilla-La Mancha (code SBPLY/23/180225/000071) and co-funded by FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional).

SPARC will contribute to the goals of Understanding Transient Phenomena in the Solar Corona and Surveillance of Violent Solar Episodes through its participation in both ground-based observation networks (e-Callisto) and satellite missions (Solar Orbiter). The project leaders play now a leading role in the e-Callisto International Network of Solar Radio Spectrometers, a Space Weather Instrument Array. SPARC is the follow-up to CELESTINA (Castillian E-Callisto Leading Experimentation in Solar-Terrestrial Interaction with Novel Antennas).

e-Callisto is able to continuously observe the solar radio spectrum 24h a day thanks to the deployment of low-cost spectrometers all around the world. Instrument deployment, including education, training and capacity-building programmes in developing countries are run in the framework of ISWI (International Space Weather Initiative), UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research).

Links:

CELESTINA(SPARC): https://celestina.web.uah.es

e-callisto: https://www.e-callisto.org/

ISWI: https://iswi-secretariat.org/

UNOOSA: https://www.unoosa.org/

COSPAR: https://cosparhq.cnes.fr       https://e-callisto.org/cospar2024/COSPAR2024workshopUzbekistan.html

Contract:

Duration: 9 months at 20 hours/week, starting in September 2024. The contract may be extended.

Remuneration: the part-time net monthly salary is 1003.31 € (gross salary 1777.68 €).

Tasks:

• Set-up and maintenance of the SPARC Data Center in the framework of e-Callisto and Solar Orbiter.
• Development, validation and implementation of automatic solar radio burst (SRB) analysis and early-alert services for the Solar Physics and Space Weather communities.
• Scientific exploitation of the SRB data archive.
• Technical support in maintenance and scientific production of the Spanish e-Callisto nodes (Peralejos de las Truchas, Sigüenza, Alcalá de Henares).
• Outreach activities.

Requirements: degree in Engineering (especially Information and Communication Technologies or Telecommunications), Physics, Mathematics or related disciplines. Particular attention will be given to applicants with experience in database management, big data or data mining and in neural networks, machine learning or artificial intelligence.

Application:

Deadline: 30th June 2024

Website: https://www.uah.es/es/investigacion/servicios-para-el-investigador/convocatorias-IDI/buscador-convocatorias-IDI/

Documentation: CV with accompanying documents backing the merits; letter of motivation (one page).

We would appreciate if you could forward the call to possible interested candidates.

Contact: for further information about the scientific aspects of this opening, please contact the head of the project, P.I., Dr. Javier Bussons (javier.bussons at uah.es).