Internal Research Fellow (PostDoc) in Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation
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These two research fellowships will be shared among the European Space Agency’s establishments ESTEC and ESRIN, and the Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality and the Directorate of Earth Observation Programmes.
In this way, the Research Fellows would benefit from the blue-sky, more theoretical and algorithmic focus of the Advanced Concepts Team (in ESTEC) during the first year, in view of transitioning this research into proof of concepts and applications to the remote sensing, benefitting from the Earth observation technical and market competence available at the Φ-lab (in ESRIN)
In the first year, the Research Fellows will be based in the Advanced Concepts Team (ACT), a team of research fellows (post-docs) and young graduates who originate from a broad variety of academic fields. Its task is to monitor, perform and foster research on advanced space systems, innovative concepts and working methods. It interacts externally almost exclusively with academia and operates as a truly interdisciplinary team bound to high scientific standards. Via its research, the team acts as a cross-departmental pathfinder to explore novel, potentially promising areas for ESA and the space sector, ranging from applied to basic fundamental research topics.
During the second year, the Research Fellows will be based in the Φ-lab, with the mission is to accelerate the future of Earth observation, by helping Europe’s Earth observation and space researchers and companies adopt disruptive technologies and methods. In this second year the Research Fellow will be embedded into an application oriented environment where the ideas, methods and algorithms conceived in the first year can deliver a concrete contribution to Earth Observation.
Candidates are highly encouraged to get familiar with the research done by the ACT (
https://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/), in particular in the field of artificial intelligence and computer science as well as with the phi-lab blog (
http://blogs.esa.int/philab/).