Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Exoplanetary Sciences (ref 298422)

Organisation/Company

University of Oslo

Research Field

Biological sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Positions

Postdoc Positions

Application Deadline

20 Apr 2026 - 23:00 (Europe/Oslo)

Country

Norway

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

37.5

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

The position is associated with the Centre for Planetary Habitability, a Centre of Excellence, funded by the Research Council of Norway, where we seek to recognise and characterise planets’ habitability. 

Cool stars span a rich continuum of masses, luminosities, and activity levels, and as the only stellar hosts capable of harbouring habitable conditions as we know them, understanding how their high-energy environments evolve is one of the most pressing open questions both in modern astrophysics and planetary sciences. Young stars are magnetically active, exhibiting intense flaring, elevated high-energy radiation, and potentially powerful stellar winds that may threaten the emergence and long-term survival of habitable conditions on orbiting planets. This project places the modelling of cool star high-energy environments at its core, developing a generalised framework for characterising time-resolved stellar spectral energy distributions, flare populations, and particle environments across a range of stellar masses and ages, with direct applicability to studies of planetary atmospheric evolution. Starting from the most active pre-main-sequence end of the cool star sequence, where the stellar environment is most extreme and the atmospheric consequences most dramatic, we build towards a unified predictive model spanning the full cool star parameter space. Our goal is to couple these stellar environment models to time-dependent radiative-convective and photochemical models of primordial planetary atmospheres, and by systematically exploring stellar mass, age, and activity level alongside a range of planetary atmospheric compositions and initial volatile inventories, to identify the regions of parameter space where planets can retain sufficient volatiles and avoid catastrophic atmospheric erosion.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298422/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-exoplanetary-sciences

Website

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298422/postdoctoral-research-fel…

Research Field

Biological sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Centre for Planetary Habitability

Country

Norway

Geofield

City

Oslo

Website

https://www.mn.uio.no/phab/english/about/

Street

PO box 1072 Blindern

Postal Code

NO-0316

E-Mail

stephanie.werner@geo.uio.no

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