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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Job opening: Space Physics PhD Opportunities at University of Warwick, UK, the first-round deadline for all applicants is 20 January 2025.
2. Conference: COSPAR ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting – 10-14 February 2025 – Third Announcement, the registration deadline is 22 January 2025.
3. Job opening: Two PhD Positions in Space Physics with a Focus on the Icy Moons, deadline: February 28, 2025.
4. Conference: UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) III, taking place 08-11 September 2025 at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK.
5. Conference: SHIELD Webinar Series: Voyager StoryCorps “Ed Stone as a Mentor”, deadline: Friday, Jan. 17th, 2025, 2pm ET.
6. EGU Session: Plasma energization and energy transport: the need for multi-scale observations in Geospace, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.
7. EGU Session: How can we unravel the Impact of Great Solar Storms In Our Solar System? Transcending discipline-borders with the European Heliophysics Community, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.
8. EGU Session: Wave-particle interactions in terrestrial and planetary radiation belts, magnetospheres and the solar wind, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.
9. EGU Session: Inner-magnetosphere Interactions and Coupling, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.
10. Job opening: PostDoc @INAF/IAPS, deadline for applying on 29 January 2025.
11. Job opening: Science Programme Manager Position at ISSI (Switzerland), the online submission deadline: no later than January 30, 2025.
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1. Job opening: Space Physics PhD Opportunities at University of Warwick, UK, the first-round deadline for all applicants is 20 January 2025.

From: Ravindra Desai, University of Warwick, UK, <ravindra.desai at warwick.ac.uk>

Application deadline: 20 January 2025

Subject: Space Physics PhD Opportunities at University of Warwick, UK.

14 fully funded 4-year PhDs, including in Space Physics, within the HetSys Centre for Doctoral Training at Warwick, UK, October 2025 start.

HetSys is an EPSRC-supported Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) which trains people to challenge current state-of-the-art in computational modelling of heterogeneous, real-world systems across a range of research themes spanning quantum, atomistic and continuum models of materials and molecules. The HetSys team are now recruiting our seventh cohort of enthusiastic students from across the physical sciences who enjoy using their mathematical skills and thinking flexibly to solve complex problems to join our EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems at the University of Warwick, UK. Our exciting range of new PhD projects for Oct 2025 can be found on our webpage.

HetSys is built around a closely knit, highly collaborative team of academics from science departments across Warwick (this year including Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics and the Warwick Manufacturing Group) at Warwick. With its project partners HetSys is developing talented, energetic PhD students to push boundaries in this exciting field. The students will inspire new ideas, approaches and innovation and become future leaders in developing new technologies.

Full funding is available for up to 14 candidates, including those who meet the required UK residency criteria plus international students. We require at least a 2(i) honours degree at BSc or an integrated masters degree (e.g. MPhys, MChem, MSci, MEng etc.) in a physical sciences, mathematics or engineering discipline. The studentships pay a stipend to cover maintenance, visa fees, as well as the university fees and research training support. The stipend is at the standard UKRI rate (for 2024/25 that is £19,237 per annum, plus £8,000 travel allowance).

The first-round deadline for all applicants is 20 January 2025. Interviews will be held shortly after this closing date.

2. Conference: COSPAR ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting – 10-14 February 2025 – Third Announcement, the registration deadline is 22 January 2025.

From: Mario Bisi, STFC UKRI, <mario.bisi at stfc.ac.uk>

Subject: COSPAR ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting – 10-14 February 2025 – Third Announcement.

This is a reminder about the upcoming full ISWAT 2025 Working Meeting 10-14 February 2025 in Cape Canaveral, FL, USA; see: https://iswat-cospar.org/wm2025 for details.

Registration will be closed on January 22, 2025 or earlier if the maximum capacity of the venue has been exceeded, please ensure you register by then: https://iswat-cospar.org/wm2025_registration - and thanks in advance!

COSPAR ISWAT 2025 will bring us into the next big stage of the ISWAT Initiative, going beyond the new roadmap with all ideas welcome from the community going forward… We are still welcoming proposals for ideas for future ISWAT endeavours which can be uploaded here: https://tinyurl.com/future-iswat-ideas - information can be found from the Mini ISWAT information page. We are also planning some interesting plenary sessions whilst maximising the time for everyone to work together continuing and making new collaborations throughout the week!

In addition, please sign up for your slot(s) at: https://tinyurl.com/ISWAT2025-Planning - this is the master Google Doc for planning out the working week, and also join/sign up your team from the main ISWAT web page ( https://iswat-cospar.org/) if you’ve not already done so.

Finally, please check back to the website regularly for updates, and we look forward to seeing you in Cape Canaveral soon…

3. Job opening: Two PhD Positions in Space Physics with a Focus on the Icy Moons, deadline: February 28, 2025.

From: Herbert Gunell, Umeå University, <herbert at herbertgunell.se>

Subject: Two PhD Positions in Space Physics with a Focus on the Icy Moons.

The Department of Physics at Umeå University is offering two full-time PhD positions (100% for 4 years) focused on advancing our understanding of the icy moons of the Solar System.

- PhD Position on Modeling Water Plumes on Icy Moons. Supervisor: Dr. Shahab Fatemi (shahab.fatemi at umu.se)

- PhD Position on Investigating Aurora on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede. Supervisor: Dr. Herbert Gunell (herbert.gunell at umu.se)

We are seeking two exceptional candidates to join our dynamic research group. Both projects will leverage advanced numerical models combined with spacecraft and telescopic observations to explore water plumes on icy moons and aurora on Ganymede. The findings will contribute to the growing field of icy moon science and provide essential insights for planning future observations and missions (e.g., ESA's JUICE mission). Applicants should have a documented background in one or more of the following topics: Space Physics, Plasma Physics, Astrophysics, Engineering Physics, Computational Physics, Electrodynamics, Statistical Physics, and Fluid Dynamics. Previous experience or knowledge in data analysis and programming skills (e.g., Python, Matlab, Fortran, and/or C/C++) is essential. Fluency in English is mandatory.

The application deadline is February 28, 2025, and the expected start date is September 1, 2025 (or as agreed).

Interested candidates should apply for each position separately via the Umeå University e-recruitment system Varbi. For more information and to submit your application, please visit the following links:

PhD Position on Investigating Aurora on Jupiter's Moon Ganymede:

www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/phd-position-in-experimental-physics-with-focus-on-the-aurora-at-jupit ers-moon-ganymede_781300/

PhD Position in Modeling Water Plumes on Icy Moons:
www.umu.se/en/work-with-us/open-positions/phd-position-in-experimental-physics-with-focus-on-modeling-water-plum es-of-the-icy-moons---_781375/

4. Conference: UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) III, taking place 08-11 September 2025 at Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield, UK.

From: Mario Bisi, STFC UKRI, <mario.bisi at stfc.ac.uk>

Subject: UK Space Weather and Space Environment (UKSWSE) III.

With a UK core, the meeting will be outward looking, where we welcome international participation and is one of an ongoing series planned for forthcoming years. This in recognition of the spirit of multinational collaboration which needs to be at the heart of enhanced understanding of, and resilience to space weather.

The long-term purpose of this new series of UK Space Weather & Space Environment Meetings is to bring together space safety scientists, engineers, forecasters, end-users, and policy makers across the various UK interests and activities. This year's meeting will have focus on next steps beyond the SWIMMR Programme, of embedding enduring Research to Operations to Research (R2O2R) and seizing opportunities to drive further advances going forward.

We very much look forward to welcoming you to Sheffield in September.

5. Conference: SHIELD Webinar Series: Voyager StoryCorps “Ed Stone as a Mentor”, deadline: Friday, Jan. 17th, 2025, 2pm ET.

From: Nick Gross, Boston University, <gross at bu.edu>

Subject: SHIELD Webinar Series: Voyager StoryCorps “Ed Stone as a Mentor”.

Deadline: Friday, Jan. 17th, 2025, 2pm ET

https://shielddrivecenter.com/shield-webinars/

As the Voyager Mission approaches its 50 year mark, and continues its extraordinary legacy, a new generation of researchers works with Voyager data to understand the outer regions of our solar system and the interstellar environment outside of the heliosphere, we invite stories that capture the history of this mission and the people that made it happen. The SHIELD Webinar series for 2025 will be devoted to bringing together these unique voices to share stories in a “Voyager StoryCorps”.

The inaugural Voyager StoryCorps Webinar will feature a conversation between two proteges of Edward C. Stone. Alan Cummings started working with Ed Stone on the Voyager cosmic ray (CRS) instruments in 1973 and is now PI of those instruments. Jamie Rankin was Ed's last graduate student and earned her PhD in 2019. She is now deputy CRS PI and deputy Voyager project scientist. Alan and Jamie will share their memories working with Ed and working with CRS data from the perspective of the old and new.

6.EGU Session: Plasma energization and energy transport: the need for multi-scale observations in Geospace, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.

From: Giulia Cozzani, LPC2E, <giulia.cozzani at cnrs-orleans.fr>

Subject: EGU 2025, Session ST2.8 “Plasma energization and energy transport: the need for multi-scale observations in Geospace”, 27 April - 2 May 2025, Vienna (Austria) and Online.

We would like to draw your attention to the EGU General Assembly Session ST2.8 “Plasma energization and energy transport: the need for multi-scale observations in Geospace” (see the detailed description of the session below).

Please, submit your abstract before Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.
EGU General Assembly, 27 April–2 May 2025, Vienna, Austria & Online
Session ST2.8 “Plasma energization and energy transport: the need for multi-scale observations in Geospace” (Co-organized by NP3/PS4)
Convener: Matthew Taylor, Co-conveners: Giulia Cozzani, Markku Alho, Maria Federica Marcucci, Oreste Pezzi

To submit an abstract to this session:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/53616
Abstract submission instructions:
https://www.egu25.eu/programme/how_to_submit.html

Session Description: Understanding plasma energization and energy transport is a grand challenge of space plasma physics, and due to its vicinity, Geospace provides an excellent laboratory to investigate them. Strong plasma energization and energy transport occur at boundaries and boundary layers such as the foreshock, the bow shock, the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the magnetotail current sheet, and the transition region. Fundamental plasma processes such as shock formation, magnetic reconnection, turbulence, wave-particle interactions, plasma jet braking, field-aligned currents generation and their combinations initiate and govern plasma energization and energy transport.

ESA/Cluster and NASA/MMS four-point constellations, as well as the large-scale multipoint mission NASA/THEMIS, have greatly improved our understanding of these processes at individual scales compared to earlier single-point measurements. However, such missions, as well as theory and numerical simulations, also revealed that these processes operate across multiple scales ranging from the large fluid to the smaller kinetic scales, implying that scale coupling is critical. Simultaneous in situ measurements at both large, fluid and small, kinetic scales are required to resolve scale coupling and ultimately fully understand plasma energization and energy transport processes. Such measurements are currently not yet available.

Building on previous single-scale missions, multiscale missions such as HelioSwarm and mission concepts such as MagCon and Plasma Observatory represent the next generation of space plasma physics investigations. Coordination of all of these assets and ideas is also part of a drive towards a new International Solar Terrestrial Physics program (ISTPNext), to focus on the system of systems that is heliophysics.

This session invites submissions on the topic of scale coupling in fundamental plasma processes, covering in situ observations, theory and simulations, multipoint data analysis methods and instrumentation. Submissions on coordination with ground-based observations as well as on remote solar and astrophysical observations are also encouraged.

Looking forward to seeing you at EGU 2025!

7. EGU Session: How can we unravel the Impact of Great Solar Storms In Our Solar System? Transcending discipline-borders with the European Heliophysics Community, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.

From: Temmer, Manuela, Heliospheric Physics Research Group (HPRG) , Institute of Physics, University of Graz, <manuela.temmer at uni-graz.at>

Subject: How can we unravel the Impact of Great Solar Storms In Our Solar System? Transcending discipline-borders with the European Heliophysics Community.

This is to draw your attention to the following interdisciplinary EGU2025 session (PS4.3):

How can we unravel the Impact of Great Solar Storms In Our Solar System? Transcending discipline-borders with the European Heliophysics Community

Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of solar and heliospheric physics, magnetospheric science, and planetary studies is essential for a comprehensive understanding of solar activity and its profound effects throughout the solar system. By integrating observations and models from multiple disciplines, this session aims to elucidate the mechanisms driving solar-planetary interactions. The session should make visible the European Heliophysics Community, that strongly follows interdisciplinary-oriented research. In that respect, the recent great solar storms provide an ideal “natural approach” for interdisciplinary investigations. This session therefore covers, not exclusively but mainly, the activity period March 2023 until May 2024 in all aspects. On the dynamics of the Sun, including solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar wind, and their interactions with the heliosphere and planets, and how solar phenomena influence planetary magnetospheres, ionospheres, and atmospheres. The session also aims to show how interdisciplinary studies foster the communication between different fields of research for designing more efficient data analysis tools serving all. Abstract deadline: January 15, 2025!

8. EGU Session: Wave-particle interactions in terrestrial and planetary radiation belts, magnetospheres and the solar wind, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.

From: Oliver Allanson, University of Birmingham, <o.d.allanson at bham.ac.uk>

EGU Session: ST2.5

Subject: Wave-particle interactions in terrestrial and planetary radiation belts, magnetospheres and the solar wind

We are pleased to announce that abstract submission is now open for the following session at EGU 2025 in Vienna, 27th April to 2nd May https://www.egu25.eu/

Submission deadline is Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET

The generation of electromagnetic waves, their propagation in inhomogeneous plasmas, amplification and absorption by - and interactions with - charged particle populations (generally covered by the term “wave-particle interactions”), are key processes responsible for energy and momentum exchange between charged particles in absence of collisions. A new generation of spacecraft missions (PSP, Solar Orbiter, MAVEN, Juno, MMS, ERG/Arase) provide unique and detailed information about wave-particle interactions and their impact on microscopic plasma kinetics as well as the contribution to dynamics of macroscopic plasma systems. Observations of these missions show similarities and differences of wave-particle interactions in solar wind, radiation belts, and magnetospheres of different planets - driving rapid growth of new theoretical concepts, including effects of nonlinear and nonresonant interactions into more conventional quasi-linear models. This session aims to connect specialists focused on spacecraft observations of different aspects of wave-particle interactions in various space plasma systems, and specialists working on the next generation of theoretical and computational models incorporating nonlinear and nonresonant interaction effects.

Convener: Oliver Allanson
Co-conveners: Anton Artemyev, Xiaojia Zhang, Emma Woodfield, Dedong Wang

You can submit your abstract via this link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/53612

9. EGU Session: Inner-magnetosphere Interactions and Coupling, abstract submission deadline: Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET.

From: Dedong Wang, GFZ Potsdam, <dedong at gfz.de>

EGU Session: ST2.9

Subject: Inner-magnetosphere Interactions and Coupling

The Earth's inner magnetosphere contains different charged particle populations, such as the Van Allen radiation belts, ring current particles, and plasmaspheric particles. Their energy range varies from eV to several MeV, and the interplay among the charged particles provide feedback mechanisms which couple all those populations together. Ring current particles can generate various waves, for example, EMIC waves and chorus waves, which play important roles in the dynamic evolution of the radiation belts through wave-particle interactions. Ring current electrons can be accelerated to relativistic radiation belt electrons. The plasmaspheric medium can also affect these processes. In addition, precipitation of ring current and radiation belt particles will influence the ionosphere, while up-flows of ionospheric particles can affect dynamics in the inner magnetosphere. Understanding these coupling processes is crucial for fundamental understanding and for accurate space weather forecasting.

While the dynamics of outer planets’ magnetospheres are driven by a unique combination of internal coupling processes, these systems have a number of fascinating similarities which make comparative studies particularly interesting. We invite a broad range of theoretical, modelling, and observational studies focusing on the dynamics of the inner magnetosphere of the Earth and outer planets, including the coupling of the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere and coupling between the solar wind disturbances and various magnetospheric processes. Contributions from all relevant fields, including theoretical studies, numerical modelling, observations from satellite and ground-based missions are welcome as well as new mission concepts. In particular, we encourage presentations using data from MMS, THEMIS, Van Allen Probes, Arase (ERG), Cluster, CubeSat missions, Juno, SuperDARN, magnetometer, optical imagers, IS-radars and ground-based VLF measurements. We also invite contributions from new mission concepts.

Convener: Dedong Wang

Co-conveners: Chao Yue, Ravindra Desai, Ondrej Santolik, Hayley Allison

You can submit your abstract via this link: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/53618

10. Job opening: PostDoc @INAF/IAPS, deadline for applying on 29 January 2025.

From: Anna Milillo, INAF/IAPS, <anna.milillo at inaf.it>

Subject: Job announcement: PostDoc @INAF/IAPS.

Analysis of Martian Exospheric Density Data for Mass Spectrometer of MATISSE/ M-EPI Suite Requirements Definition

A call is open for a selection procedure for the assignment of one “PostDoc”, of the duration of one year renewable, to define the instrument requirements for the mass spectrometer of the M-EPI on board the M-MATISSE mission (ESA M7 candidate) and scientific support to the Data Processing Unit.

Deadline for applying on 29 January 2025

Bando 2024-46-AR_english.pdf at https://www.iaps.inaf.it/en/lavora-con-noi/bandi-di-concorso/research-grant/bando-2024-46-ar?page=2

Reference person: Anna Milillo (anna.milillo at inaf.it)

Research will be carried out at INAF-Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome, Italy.

The annual gross salary of the grant is 32.000,00 Euros to be paid in deferred monthly payments

The proposed activities include a detailed study of the Martian environment and its interaction with the interplanetary medium. The study will focus onto the results achieved by previous mission observing the high atmosphere. In particular, the available and public MAVEN mission data will be analyzed. The results of these studies could be considered in term of total loss from the planet as a function of external conditions of the interplanetary medium in an evolutional frame. In addition, the selected candidate will provide scientific support for the Data Processing Unit serving the M-EPI plasma suite.

11. Job opening: Science Programme Manager Position at ISSI (Switzerland), the online submission deadline: no later than January 30, 2025.

From: Thierry Dudok de Wit, ISSI, Bern, <ddwit at issibern.ch>

Subject: Science Programme Manager Position at ISSI (Switzerland).

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland, invites applications for a Science Programme Manager. We are seeking a motivated scientist to take the role of Science Programme Manager at ISSI as of April 1, 2025, negotiable.

This is a full-time staff position under Swiss law. The position is permanent, and includes also a fraction of independent science time, to be negotiated. Applicants for this position must have a doctorate in either Astronomy and Astrophysics, Planetary, Heliophysics or Earth Sciences. They should also have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to work effectively in a small but diverse team and with senior management in the Institute’s Directorate. A demonstrated ability to interact with the international scientific community, together with excellent communication skills are essential requirements. Programme management knowledge and experience would be an asset for the success of this position, and a proactive attitude to solve problems.

Interested scientists should submit their applications, including a cover letter and curriculum vitae in one single pdf file through the online submission form below no later than January 30, 2025. Further information may be obtained by contacting Dominique Fuchs (dominique.fuchs at issibern.ch)

A full description of the position is available here: https://www.issibern.ch/wp-content/uploads/ISSI_Science_Programme_Manager_2025.pdf

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Editors Yuri Shprits, Dedong Wang, Alexander Jordan and Jiahui Yuan