Opportunities

Illustration of the hot gas giant exoplanet HD 189733b, where raining glass is a possibility (Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser).

This page is for job opportunities related to the IA Planetary Systems group. For general IA job opportunities follow this link.

Open calls:

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE OPENING OF AN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO HIRE ONE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER UNDER DECREE-LAW Nº 57/2016, ALTERED BY LAW Nº 57/2017

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE OPENING OF AN INTERNATIONAL CALL TO HIRE ONE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER UNDER DECREE-LAW Nº 57/2016, ALTERED BY LAW Nº 57/2017

One Research Fellowship for PhD student in the field of Exoplanet Research

Press releases

ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth
Published 26 May, 2020 in Outreach

An international team, with the participation of several researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), used the ESPRESSO spectrograph to confirmed the presence of the exoplanet Proxima... read more ❯
CHEOPS observes its first exoplanet
Published 16 April, 2020 in Outreach

ESA’s new exoplanet mission, CHEOPS, has successfully completed its almost three months of in-orbit commissioning, exceeding expectations for its performance, and observed its first exoplanet. Learn more » (in Portuguese only) read more ❯
Waves in thin air with wide effects
Published 17 March, 2020 in Outreach

Image of a dust storm on Mars taken in 2007 by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, of NASA.

Understanding a type of air waves in the Mars' atmosphere improves the meteorology for the red planet, according to a study led by the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do... read more ❯
ESPRESSO observes an exoplanet with iron rain
Published 11 March, 2020 in Outreach

A team of researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) was part of a study which detected and characterized the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-76b, a study only... read more ❯
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