Job Advert: 3-year Post Doctoral Research Assistant in Solar Activity Reconstructions, University of Reading.

https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=24362

Closing Date: 4 June 2025

Are you a researcher with expertise in solar and heliospheric physics? We invite applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant to join Prof Mathew Owens’s STFC project on long-term reconstructions of solar activity.
This is an opportunity to undertake exciting research into the space weather and climate over the last ten thousand years, working within the Space and Atmospheric Electricity Research Group of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading. Our team currently comprises six academic staff members, two PDRAs, and five PhD students, and fosters a collaborative and dynamic research environment. You will work primarily with Prof Mathew Owens while having opportunities to engage with projects across the group.

Key Responsibilities:

To compare existing models of galactic cosmic ray transport through the heliosphere with available observations, such as ground-based neutron monitor records.

To develop methods and models to reconstruct solar activity from a variety of indirect proxy data, such as 14C in tree rings and 10Be in ice sheets.