PhD scholarship in Modelling of Ionospheric Currents - DTU Space

If you are seeking to establish your career as a physicist working with polar space physics and ionospheric electrodynamics, this PhD project offers the opportunity to develop new methods for extracting information about ionospheric dynamics from ground-based magnetic measurements.

At DTU Space, you will combine observations, computational modelling, and inverse methods to improve our understanding of electric currents in the ionosphere and in the conducting Earth below. Responsibilities and qualifications Your overall focus will be to develop new computational tools for using ground magnetometer measurements to study ionospheric dynamics at polar latitudes.

You will build on the department’s established expertise in magnetic measurements and ionospheric electrodynamics, with a particular focus on improved modelling of currents induced in the conducting Earth. You will work closely with colleagues at DTU and with international partners through the ESA Swarm and NASA EZIE satellite missions. Your primary tasks will be to:

- Harmonize data from DTU’s ground magnetometer array for use in large-scale mapping of ionospheric electrodynamics - Develop new tools for mapping electric currents in the ionosphere and the associated induced current in the Earth1 …