Internship (pre-MSc) at the European Space Agency, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Updated: March 04, 2024 12:46 PM GMT

Full-time, Temp work, and Internship Job in Noordwijk aan Zee, South Holland

UNIVERSITAT FRANKFURT

Noordwijk, Netherlands

2023-11-30
gernot.heissel[AT]esa.int
Noordwijk, Netherlands

Location: Advanced Concepts Team of ESA at ESTEC in Noordwijk / The Netherlands.
Duration: 3 months
Starting Date: flexible within February to October 2024
Application Deadline: 30 November 2023 23:59 CET/CEST
Requirements: citizen of ESA member state, enrolled as student, preferably in final years of MSc
Apply online via the provided link.

Project title: Constraining Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) with current or future ESA missions.

Project description:

Several independent observations point to the fact that the visible mass in galaxies and galaxy clusters is insufficient to account for their dynamics, when analysed using Newton’s laws. This is known as the “missing mass problem”. This observation necessitates at least one of the following:

There exists in galaxies large quantities of unseen matter which boosts the stars’ velocities beyond what would be expected on the basis of the visible mass alone, or Newton’s... More Detail