The successful candidate will focus on projects aiming to understand the mechanisms leading to the disruption of asteroids close to the Sun by planning, executing, analyzing, and modeling heating experiments on meteorites and asteroid-analogue materials carried out in the new
Asteroid Engineering Laboratory in Kiruna, Sweden.

A Ph.D. in planetary science, astronomy, geosciences, geoengineering, space engineering, or a related field is meriting, as well as experience in numerical modeling and experimental research on meteorites and/or other geological materials.

Deadline for applications is June 30, 2018.

More information available at: https://www.ltu.se/ltu/stipendier-priser/postdoc-stipendier?l=en