[IGSMAIL-7400] Open position at AIUB

[Rolf Dach]

Author:  Rolf Dach


Dear Colleagues,

The group “Satellite Geodesy” of the Astronomical Institute of the 
University of Bern (AIUB) offers the position for a

          *Ph.D.-Candidate*

The focus will be on studying the electron content of the plasmasphere, 
the outer region of the co-rotating Earth's upper atmosphere, from GPS 
data collected onboard a multitude of low Earth orbiting (LEO) 
satellites, e.g. Swarm, Sentinel, and the upcoming COSMIC-2 satellites 
additionally also providing GLONASS data.

The work will mainly focus on science issues, but includes technical 
issues as well, e.g., LEO orbit determination including improved 
pre-processing techniques. Based on clean and properly calibrated slant 
TEC pseudo-observations derived from many LEO satellites, the 
specification of the 3-D plasmasphere electron density shall be 
envisaged. In view of a greatly improved spatial coverage offered by 
current LEO satellites, different approaches for reconstructing 3-D 
plasmasphere electron densities may be investigated to reduce 
dependencies on a priori models to the extent possible.


The complete position description is available at
http://www.bernese.unibe.ch/Stellen/Stellenausschreibung_20161221.pdf


Please circulate this information within your institute.


With best regards

Rolf Dach