"ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY"

Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 120 nationalities, 14 000 students, 400 professors and close to 5000 faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

Aalto University is the cradle of Finnish New Space and the hub of space technology innovation. The university has already developed and launched five satellites. Aalto University is in the center of New Space innovation ecosystem, our spin-off companies are shaping the New Space economy worldwide. Aalto operates ESA Business Incubator Center, ESA Phi-Lab and works in close collaboration with rapidly growing industry.

The Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering invites applications for the position of ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY

We wish to recruit an ambitious scientist and innovator to strengthen and expand our Space Technology focus and to support the continued growth of the Aalto Space Technology ecosystem. We seek a passionate and visionary space technologist — someone ready to bring disruptive ideas and lead research in areas supporting our strong portfolio of small satellite missions, scientific instrumentation, microwave Earth Observation instruments, in-orbit reliability, radiation tolerance, LEO and VLEO missions, electronics and IC development and RF technologies.

Scientific environment

Aalto University is a central hub of the Finnish space ecosystem. Most Finnish satellites have been developed on the Otaniemi campus area. Aalto University Space ecosystem has produced significant space-related spin-off companies with worldwide impact. Aalto is deeply embedded in the European space innovation network through the ESA Phi-Lab and the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) Finland.

You will join the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering. The department’s research areas include integrated circuit design, microwave engineering, electromagnetics, space science and technology as well as photonics and nanotechnology. Our researchers in IC design work with sensor interface electronics, energy harvesters, RF/MM/analogue/DSP ICs for wireless, radars, antennas, and related electronics. In these fields, our researchers work in close collaboration with several national and international leading research institutes and companies.

The department hosts a well-equipped Small Satellite Laboratory, complete with a dedicated cleanroom, thermal vacuum chamber, environmental test facilities, and excellent laboratories for RF technologies, anechoic chamber testing, and advanced computational resources. Aalto is also an active partner in national Centre of Excellence in Space Resilience. Aalto has made or participated small satellite missions such as Aalto-1, Aalto-2, FORESAIL-1, FORESAIL-1 Prime, Suomi-100 and participates in international ESA missions such as JUICE, Bepi Colombo, Comet Interceptor, HERA and many others. Aalto space team also works on microwave remote sensing, small satellite platforms, microwave EO radars, SAR interferometry and polarimetry, planetary plasmas, space weather, solar wind interactions, space environment modelling and simulations and radio astronomy.

The department has excellent measurement facilities with a wide variety of measurement equipment. The equipment ranges from DSP and DC analysers to THz network analysers and anechoic chambers. The department also has cutting-edge design tools, comprehensively including IC technology design kits, EM simulators and DSP design tools.