Postdoctoral Researcher in Planetary Geophysics

Università degli Studi Roma Tre; Roma; On-site; EUR 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Università degli Studi Roma Tre invites applications for a three-year Postdoctoral position funded by the ERC Advanced Grant SWIM (Surfing Radio Waves to Detect Liquid Water in the Solar System). The project aims to study dielectric properties of materials in icy shells of Jovian satellites and to establish how liquid water signatures can be detected with radio waves.

The successful candidate will contribute to the design, construction and testing of a multi-system setup to measure ice

Responsibilities

• Design, construct and test a multi-system setup to measure ice dielectric properties across multiple frequency bands.
• Assess structural characteristics of ice samples produced in the measuring cells using microtomography analysis.

Job description

Job description

A three-years position is posted in the framework of theERCAdvanced GrantSWIM(Surfing Radio Waves to Detect Liquid Water in the Solar System). The main objective of theSWIMproject is to assess the dielectric properties of the materials believed to be present inside the Jovian satellites’ ice shells, and to establish under what conditions evidence of liquid water can be detected inside/below the ice, using radio waves. At the early stage of the project it is foreseen to build a novel setup to measure ice dielectric properties at cryogenic temperature in the frequency range 1-100MHz. The Postdoc candidate will be requested to fundamentally contribute to the design, construction and testing of a multiple system to simultaneously measure high and low frequency ice property and to assess the structural characteristics and the ice samples produced in the measuring cells using microtomography analysis.

Relevant divisions

• Cryospheric Sciences (CR)
• Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS)

Application deadline

9 June 2025