Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Exoplanetary Sciences (ref 298792)

Organisation/Company

University of Oslo

Research Field

Geosciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)

Positions

Postdoc Positions

Application Deadline

15 May 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

This position is associated with the Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB) and linked to the Giant Impact Accretion of Terrestrial Systems (GIANTS) project, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The work will be carried out in close collaboration with the GIANTS Team and colleagues at PHAB, offering an opportunity to contribute to a collaborative international research environment.

GIANTS is a five-year theoretical and numerical modelling project focused on the late stage of terrestrial planet formation involving giant impacts around the Sun and other stars. The project applies state-of-the-art computational physics methods, particularly Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) with self-gravity, shocks, strength and geological equations of state, to simulate hypothesized giant impacts, and especially, to establish their systemwide consequences and corollaries. For example, a giant impact on Venus would have delivered significant alien crust to the Earth, and vice-versa. The Moon-forming collision might have been a "hit-and-run-return’’ where accretion happened only on the second try. 

The main work is to model giant impacts using a high-heritage SPH model supported by the Team, and from those outcomes, run dynamical evolution models (N-body) to investigate the occurrences of subsequent collisions, using a surrogate model for giant impacts trained on SPH simulations, and then to analyse the results in the context of the geophysics, geochemistry and dynamics of the terrestrial planets. 

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298792/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-exoplanetary-sciences

Website

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/298792/postdoctoral-research-fel…

Research Field

Geosciences

Education Level

PhD 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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