Space Exploration Science Strategy Intern

EU Satellite Centre (SatCen); Noordwijk; Presencial; EUR 11.000 - 18.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

EU Satellite Centre (SatCen) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, invites university students to join a sponsored internship within ESA's Exploration Science team. You will consolidate the HRE science strategy by compiling white papers, roadmaps, and articles, and create concise syntheses to inform future planning.

The role develops skills in literature review, data analysis, and AI-assisted knowledge organisation, with responsibilities including mapping literature to HRE themes, producing summaries

Formación

• Master’s level background in data science, space science, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, or another discipline relevant to human and robotic exploration.
• good ability to review, analyse and synthesise scientific literature, white papers, roadmaps and strategy documents.
• interest in human spaceflight, microgravity research, exploration science, or the development of science strategies for space programmes.
• good command of Microsoft Office tools, in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint, for document preparation, source tracking, tables and synthesis material.
• basic knowledge of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical methods.

Responsabilidades

• collect, catalogue and structure relevant strategy documents, white papers, roadmaps and scientific articles related to HRE science.
• compare the priorities, science questions, capabilities and implementation approaches identified across ESA material and documents from other agencies.
• map the scientific literature against the main HRE science themes to highlight evidence, trends, gaps and emerging topics.
• prepare clear summaries, tables, and visual synthesis material to support discussions within the team and contribute to the consolidation of future science strategy documents.
• apply existing AI/Machine Learning tools to identify knowledge gaps.
• through this work, you will learn how science strategy is developed in an international space agency context and how scientific evidence, community inputs and programme constraints are translated into strategic priorities.

Conocimientos

Data science

Literature review

Python

AI/ML basics

Educación

Master’s degree

Herramientas

Python

Microsoft Office

Descripción del empleo

EU Satellite Centre (SatCen) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, invites university students to join a sponsored internship within ESA's Exploration Science team. You will consolidate the HRE science strategy by compiling white papers, roadmaps, and articles, and create concise syntheses to inform future planning.

The role develops skills in literature review, data analysis, and AI-assisted knowledge organisation, with responsibilities including mapping literature to HRE themes, producing summaries