[SPA] SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER, Volume XXIX, Issue 72

Fri Dec 9 00:03:20 PST 2022

AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
SPA SECTION NEWSLETTER
Volume XXIX, Issue 72
Dec.08,2022

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Table of Contents

1. Fall AGU Online Poster Discussion Sessions for SPA SA, SM and SH - Schedule Details

2. UPDATE: NASA LWS Town Hall at Fall 2022 AGU

3. Engaging With GDC at AGU -- GDC Town Hall Thursday Dec 15 1245-1345

4. An Uncommon AGU Event for the SPA Community

5. AGU Monday Townhall: The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) User Needs Survey

6. ISEE, Nagoya University, International Joint Research Program

7. Topical Issue on “CMEs, ICMEs, SEPs: Observational, Modeling, and Forecasting Advances”

8. MEETING: DASP Workshop 2023 Call for Abstracts

9. SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H02

10. JOB OPENING: Tenured Professor Positions in "Theoretical Atmospheric Physics" and in "Atmosphere Optical Soundings" at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany

11. JOB OPENING: Three Atmospheric/Ionospheric Postdoc Positions at JHU/APL

12. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Associate and Assistant Research Physicist - Space Sciences Laboratory - UC Berkeley

13. JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher at KULeuven: Applications of Supercomputers to the Simulation of Space Physics

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Announcement Submission Website: http://goo.gl/forms/qjcm4dDr4g

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Fall AGU Online Poster Discussion Sessions for SPA SA, SM and SH - Schedule Details

From: Christina Lee, Amy Keesee, Romina Nikoukar (clee at ssl.berkeley.edu)

Fall AGU meeting attendees (virtually or in-person): As you start to build your meeting schedule, please remember that there are dedicated ONLINE POSTER DISCUSSION SESSIONS at 8-9 am CT and 1:45-2:45 pm CT every day in all the sections, including the SPA Aeronomy, Magnetospheric Physics and Solar-Heliospheric Physics sections.  These sessions are not concurrent with other hybrid oral or in-person poster sessions or town halls.

Please help support our SPA online poster presenters by adding a few of these SPA online poster discussion sessions to your Fall Meeting schedules.  All the SPA section poster presenters are working hard to put their posters together for you to see and learn from!

Note that AGU might not list the schedule of presentations within the 1-hr blocks, so we've created spreadsheets for conveners to list their schedules in more detail and provide the session zoom links. 

Aeronomy - Online Poster Session:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1plSgkGIUtchM_41s-wyHhVgZDf7zb2SUllfeAYNngK0/edit#gid=1151350964

Magnetospheric Physics - Online Poster Session:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hkew-vNQVvm1nSnxo63NxQNmPPKedhK_dJZHC54Y6cM/edit?usp=sharing

Solar-Heliospheric Physics - Online Poster Session:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BYN4KirfjOp94cJC5aVWBiW8ORsn4VkG69A48ZVFGKU/edit?usp=sharing

Christina (SH), Amy (SM), and Romina (SA)

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UPDATE: NASA LWS Town Hall at Fall 2022 AGU

From: John McCormack (john.p.mccormack at nasa.gov)

Please join special guest speaker Nicky Fox, Director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, and NASA HQ program staff for the Living With a Star (LWS) Town Hall at the Fall 2022 AGU meeting in Chicago! The LWS Town Hall will provide the community with program and mission updates, discussion on the annual ROSES LWS Science program element, and the announce the Focused Science Topics to be solicited in ROSES-2023. There will be ample time for open discussion of the LWS program and any Q&A.

Session Date, Time: Monday, December 12th, 6:30-7:30pm CST
Session Location: McCormick Place, S102ab
Session Number in AGU Program: TH15A

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Engaging With GDC at AGU -- GDC Town Hall Thursday Dec 15 1245-1345

From: Douglas Rowland, Katherine Garcia-Sage, Larry Kepko (douglas.e.rowland at nasa.gov)

NASA’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission is a Living With a Star mission designed to to provide the first multipoint measurements of the global ionosphere-thermosphere response to high latitude magnetospheric energy inputs, and the processes that redistribute mass, momentum, and energy from the high latitudes throughout the globe. GDC is currently expected to launch by the end of the decade, and will consist of six identically-instrumented spacecraft in 350-400 km altitude circular orbits with inclinations near 80-82 degrees. The six orbit planes will have different inclinations so that they precess differentially, allowing the constellation to scan a range of latitudinal/longitudinal scales over its three-year primary mission.

GDC is currently in Phase A, and NASA HQ has selected three Interdisciplinary Science teams (IDS) and three science investigations/instruments: AETHER (plasma density and electron temperature), CAPE (“auroral” energetic ion and electron populations), and MoSAIC (neutral and ionized gas wind/drift, density, temperature, and chemical composition). NASA HQ is expected to wrap up the final two instrument selections in the near term (magnetometer and thermal plasma instrument). Each GDC spacecraft will transmit a low-latency “space weather” data stream that will be of high value to space weather users and operators.

At the upcoming AGU meeting, there are a number of opportunities to engage with GDC, and we welcome discussions with the science community.

A great chance to engage is at the GDC Town Hall (Thursday, 1245-1345 Central, McCormick S103ab).

This is an open meeting focused on providing status updates on plans for the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, NASA’s next Living With a Star mission. In addition to the status updates, this Town Hall will include some community discussion and Q&A about the current status and future plans for the mission. Of particular interest are 1) avenues by which GDC observations could be leveraged to serve as a strategic hub for other projects; 2) ways to leverage GDC’s measurements to support R2O activities that can support National Space Weather goals; 3) community plans for ground-based observations that could work in concert with GDC to produce unique science.

Other opportunities to engage with GDC include (listed are sessions where GDC material will be presented / discussed, but of course there are a large number of additional sessions about science topics of high relevance to GDC):

a)	(Sunday Dec 11, 330-5 PM Central, Hilton Chicago Hotel 720 S Michigan Avenue) At the mini-GEM TRACERS session there will be a short GDC presentation describing the mission and how it is complementary to TRACERS
b)	(Monday Dec 12, 9-1030 AM Central, McCormick Place S401cd) Session SA12A – Leveraging Multi-point and Multi-Source Observations to Advance Frontier ITM Science (oral session)
c)	(Monday Dec 12, 630-730 PM Central, McCormick Place S102ab) Session TH15A -- The Living With a Star Town Hall
d)	(Tuesday Dec 13, 1035-1050 AM Central, Hall A, NASA Booth 1937, South / Level 3) Hyperwall presentation “GDC: A Mission to Explore the Heart of Geospace”
e)	(Tuesday Dec 13, 1345-1445, online) SA24B: online posters for Leveraging Multi-point and Multi-Source Observations to Advance Frontier ITM Science
f)	(Tuesday Dec 13, 1445-1815, Poster Hall-A) SA25C: posters for Leveraging Multi-point and Multi-Source Observations to Advance Frontier ITM Science – this will include a large number of GDC posters describing instruments, mission, and some science that will be adjacent – great time to have detailed discussions
g)	(Wednesday Dec 14, 9-1030 AM Central, McCormick Place S401cd) Session SA32A -- Distributed Auroral Measurements and Heterogeneous Data-Driven Physics-Based Simulations for Ionospheric System Science III (oral session)
h)	(Wednesday Dec 14, 9 AM-1230 PM Central, Poster Hall-A) Session SA32D -- In particular poster SA32D-1693, “Supporting Space Weather with the Geospace Dynamics Constellation” (by K. Garcia-Sage et al.)
i)	(Thursday Dec 15, 1245-1345 Central, McCormick Place S103ab) Session TH43J – GDC Townhall – one hour of GDC status update and open Q&A

See you at AGU!

On behalf of GDC and the Science Team,

Doug Rowland, GDC Project Scientist
Katherine Garcia-Sage, GDC Deputy Project Scientist

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An Uncommon AGU Event for the SPA Community

From: Ryan McGranaghan, Barbara Thompson, John Dorelli, Ayris Narock, Michael Kirk, Chris Bard (ryan.mcgranaghan at gmail.com)

Good day 

We hope this email finds you well, all things considered, and enjoying the Fall/Winter transition. 

Please join us for an unexampled Town Hall event to be held at the very outset of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (Monday November 12 from 6:30-7:30 PM CT) online and virtually everywhere: “Data and Open Science for Capable Communities and Scientific Discovery" (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Session/160558). 

For scientific communities to embrace and robustly and responsibly practice data science, including AI/ML, they require transdisciplinary communities of practice (CoP). We will explore developing, maintaining, and amplifying these CoPs by hearing from frontier thinkers that across different contexts (e.g., different science domains, different sectors of society).

Please join us to help cultivate a rich discussion, learn from thought-leaders, and broaden your own network. More details are below. 

Warm Regards,

Ryan McGranaghan on behalf of

The NASA Center for HelioAnalytics (Chris Bard, John Dorelli, Michael Kirk, Ayris Narock, and Barbara Thompson); and in cooperation with an entire network of data and open science communities. 

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In many ways, open science is defining the future of Earth and Space Science (indeed much more broadly, science and knowledge creation). Many places have pioneered these conversations for years (e.g., the Center for Open Science and the National Academy of Sciences) and now there are exciting new initiatives like NASA’s Transformation to Open Science. 

Open science raises important questions for all fields of inquiry. We will use a premier platform during the largest annual gathering of Earth and Space Scientists, the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to hold a discussion around one of the central ideas: for scientific communities to embrace and robustly and responsibly practice data science, including AI/ML, they require transdisciplinary communities of practice. 

We are planning a town hall event to be held at the very outset of the conference (Data and Open Science for Capable Communities and Scientific Discovery) that will consist of a panel and community exchange to discuss the technical and cultural challenges to using data science robustly and responsibly for scientific discovery. 

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AGU Monday Townhall: The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) User Needs Survey

From: Tamara Dickinson, and the SWAG  (dickinson.tamara at yahoo.com)

Please join us on Monday, December 12, 2022, at 6:30-7:30 pm CST at McCormick Place room S102cd for the Town Hall meeting:
TH15E: The Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG) User Needs Survey.

The Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act established the Space Weather Advisory Group (SWAG). The SWAG is directed to inform the interests and work of the White House Space Weather Operations, Research, and Mitigation (SWORM) subcommittee and conduct a comprehensive User Needs survey for space weather products. The survey’s goal is to identify the space weather research, observations, forecasting, prediction, and modeling advances required to improve space weather products. This Town Hall will provide a summary of the planned User Needs survey including the user sectors of focus, the survey schedule, and baseline questions. The four user sectors to be examined in the survey’s first year and discussed at the Town Hall include: 1) Global Navigation Satellite System (e.g., GPS), 2) Space Situational Awareness/Space Traffic Management-Coordination, 3) Human Space Flight, and 4) Research.

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ISEE, Nagoya University, International Joint Research Program

From: Yoshi Miyoshi (miyoshi at isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp)

The Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE), Nagoya University, Japan, has announced an opportunity of

02) ISEE International Joint Research Program
  ISEE supports foreign researchers to visit ISEE to make joint research with ISEE researchers.
03) ISEE International Workshop
  ISEE supports organizing small international workshops on focused topics related to the Space-Earth environmental research
10）Carbon 14 Analysis Service
  ISEE performs carbon 14 analysis on samples commissioned by researchers
11) SCOSTEP Visiting Scholar (SVS) program
   ISEE supports young scientists from developing countries who apply for the SVS program
14) International Technical Exchange Program,
   ISEE supports International Technical Exchanges between researchers and technical staffs at ISEE and other universities or research institutes
15) ISEE International School Support in FY2023.
   ISEE supports organizing International School for students and early career scientists on focused topics related to the Space-Earth environmental research

The deadline of the proposal is January 15, 2023 expected for category 10.

-All applications should be submitted through the “Joint-Research On-line Integrated System (JROIS)” website.
-Please download the application guideline and application form, fill out the application form, and submit it via JROIS.
-Please upload the application document in a Zip file (Even if only one file of the application form is required, it must be a Zip file.).

Please also refer to the following PDF file for information of each category.
https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/co-re/2023/kyodo/List/2023_ISEE_Joint_Research_Guide_Eng.pdf

Application forms and  link to JROIS are found at
https://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/co-re/co-re-application.html

If you have any questions, please contact at
Administration office, Nagoya University, Furo-cho,
Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
e-mail：k-kyoten [at] adm.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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Topical Issue on “CMEs, ICMEs, SEPs: Observational, Modeling, and Forecasting Advances”

From: Camilla Scolini (camilla.scolini at unh.edu)

The Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (JSWSC) opens a Topical Issue on “CMEs, ICMEs, SEPs: Observational, Modeling, and Forecasting Advances”, to appear in 2023.

This Topical Issue originates from Session swr02 “Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections and Solar Energetic Particles” at the 18th European Space Weather Week, held in October 2022. However, it is not reserved to papers presented during this session, and it is open for all submissions within the scope of this Topical Issue. 

This Topical Issue aims at highlighting recent advances in the study of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), their interplanetary counterparts (ICMEs), and solar energetic particles (SEPs), as well as in the forecasting of their space weather impact at Earth and other locations in the heliosphere. We invite contributions that focus on the observational, theoretical, and modelling investigation of CMEs/ICMEs and SEPs, including (but not limited to): ICME propagation in the heliosphere, the interaction of ICMEs with terrestrial and planetary environments, the link between CMEs and ICMEs, the generation and transport of SEPs by CME/ICME-driven shocks, and the forecasting of ICME and SEP occurrence, properties, and space weather impacts. 

Further details are given here: https://www.swsc-journal.org/topical-issues-open-for-submission.

Submission deadline (via the JSWSC online submission tool): 31 July 2023
Submitted manuscripts will be processed as soon as they are received, and accepted manuscripts will be published as soon as the review process is complete.

Topical Editor-in-Chief: 
Camilla Scolini (camilla.scolini at unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, USA

Topical Editors:
Luciano Rodriguez (luciano.rodriguez at observatory.be), Royal Observatory of Belgium, Belgium, 
Sergio Dasso (dasso at df.uba.ar), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 
Nicolas Wijsen (nicolas.p.wijsen at nasa.gov), NASA GSFC and University of Maryland College Park, USA

For questions regarding this Topical Issue, please contact the Topical Editor-in-Chief Camilla Scolini. For questions concerning the submission process, please contact the JSWSC Editorial Office (jswsc at edpsciences.org).

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MEETING: DASP Workshop 2023 Call for Abstracts

From: David Themens, Daniel Billett, Megan Gillies, Victoria Foss (daniel.billett at usask.ca)

Dear Colleagues, 

The 2023 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Division of Atmospheric and Space Physics (DASP) Workshop will be hosted by the Canadian Space Agency on the week of February 21-24, 2023. In anticipation of the event, abstract submission is now open. Anyone interested in presenting at the 2023 DASP Workshop should submit their abstract information at the following link prior to Midnight Eastern Time on January 20th, 2023.

https://forms.gle/TS2v9eJwgpb1MKRb7

More information regarding Workshop travel, registration, and other DASP-related events will be made available in mid-December; however, do note that this will be an in-person meeting. Also, this year will see the return of the DASP Student Workshop, which will be held on February 20th, 2023.

If you have any questions about the workshops, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at dasp.dpae at gmail.com. 

DASP Executive

David Themens
Daniel Billett
Meghan Gillies
Victoria Foss

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SESSION: URSI GASS 2023 Call for Papers - Commission H Session H02

From: Vania Jordanova, David Hartley, and Yoshizumi Miyoshi (vania at lanl.gov)

Dear colleagues,

Next URSI General Assembly & Symposium 2023 (https://www.ursi-gass2023.jp/) will take place in Sapporo (Japan), August 19-26, 2023. For information on convened sessions (conveners and session descriptions), please visit: https://cloud.ilabt.imec.be/index.php/s/6jp5tnASX5DbY2n.

The deadline for abstract submission is 25 January 2023, through this website: https://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/login.form?A1c4fbc04-5ebf-4a04-a174-0447a681f5d9.

Please consider submitting an abstract to the URSI Commission H Session H02 “Wave-particle interactions and radiation belt dynamics”.

Session H02 Description: “In the collisionless magnetospheric environment, plasma waves are crucial for the rapid storm-time enhancements in the radiation belts, as well as abrupt dropouts and gradual rebuilding of the belts, in combination with radial transport. However, major uncertainties remain on the spatial distribution, propagation, and spectral properties of key plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and their feedback on energetic particle dynamics. Improved knowledge on the inclusion of nonlinear wave-particle interactions and the role of cold and hot plasma in the wave growth and propagation are needed. This session invites studies that advance our current understanding of wave-particle interactions and their role in radiation belt dynamics from observational, theoretical, and numerical points of view. We especially welcome investigations related to the development of new methods and mission concepts, as well as those that can gain insights on the global dynamics from multi-spacecraft and ground-based network observations.”

If you need any complementary information, do not hesitate to contact us.

Vania Jordanova, David Hartley, and Yoshizumi Miyoshi
Session H02 Conveners

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JOB OPENING: Tenured Professor Positions in "Theoretical Atmospheric Physics" and in "Atmosphere Optical Soundings" at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany

From: Claudia Stolle (cstolle at iap-kborn.de)

The Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock in Kühlungsborn, Germany invites applications for two tenured professor positions in "Theoretical Atmospheric Physics" and in "Atmosphere Optical Soundings" with topical emphasize on the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. The positions include leading a research department at the institute. Details of the announcements are available at: https://www.iap-kborn.de/en/news/jobs/ or https://www.uni-rostock.de/en/stellen/professuren/ 

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JOB OPENING: Three Atmospheric/Ionospheric Postdoc Positions at JHU/APL

From: Ian Cohen (Ian.Cohen at jhuapl.edu)

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is searching for applicants to three (3) potential postdoctoral positions to conduct basic scientific research in the field of space physics and aeronomy. The positions are specifically focusing on 1) upper atmospheric UV remote sensing, 2) upper atmospheric RF remote sensing, and 3) upper atmospheric data analysis.

Upper atmospheric UV remote sensing - focusing on analysis of ground- and/or space-based UV remote sensing datasets and the design, development, and testing of novel future UV remote sensing instrumentation (https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/51742?lang=en-us)
Upper atmospheric RF remote sensing - focusing on analysis of ground- and/or space-based RF remote sensing datasets and the design, development, and testing of novel future UV remote sensing instrumentation (https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/51743?lang=en-us)
Upper atmospheric data analysis - including numerical analysis of ground and/or space-based datasets, preferably leveraging data assimilation and/or machine learning techniques (https://careers.jhuapl.edu/jobs/51779?lang=en-us)

For further details please contact Ian Cohen (Ian.Cohen at jhuapl.edu). Interested applicants can submit their applications online at the links above.

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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Associate and Assistant Research Physicist - Space Sciences Laboratory - UC Berkeley

From: Tai Phan, Mitsuo Oka (moka at berkeley.edu)

The Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks applicants for the position of Postdoctoral Associate as well as Assistant Research Physicist for investigations of the magnetic reconnection and shock processes in the near-Earth plasma environment and in the interplanetary space, with possible applications to solar physics. The work involves the analysis of magnetic, electric, and plasma measurements from the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) and THEMIS missions, as well as theoretical/simulation studies to support the data analysis. The successful candidate will be involved in national and international collaborations and will also be expected to present their results at national and international conferences as well as publish their results in leading journals. Expertise in kinetic plasma simulation and/or analysis of space plasma measurements will be highly beneficial.

The application deadline is January 16. The positions will remain open until filled. For more information about the position, including required qualifications, application materials, and to apply, please go to our official page at 
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03651 for Postdoctoral Associate and
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03652 for Assistant Research Physicist positions.

For questions, please email Dr. Tai Phan (phan at ssl.berkeley.edu) or Dr. Mitsuo Oka (moka at berkeley.edu). All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

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JOB OPENING: Postdoctoral Researcher at KULeuven: Applications of Supercomputers to the Simulation of Space Physics

From: Giovanni Lapenta (giovanni.lapenta at kuleuven.be)

We look for a postdoc interested in studying space plasmas using supercomputers. We look for an individual that within the context of the new HPC Europa project SPACE will develop new particle in cell methods for the latest generation of supercomputers that include CPU and GPU. The goal is to use these new methods to obtain new important results on the physics of space processes, with focus on the solar wind and the planetary magnetospheres. 

The code we use is iPic3D, a Particle-In-Cell (PIC) software used for the study of space plasmas. The code is developed in C/C++ and is currently implemented in CPU but we are now active in  he use of GPUs with openMP and OpenACC. 

In collaboration with our team in Leuven and with the international collaborations of the SPACE pro-ject, the postdoctoral researcher will continue the optimization of the code using the strategies pro-posed in the SPACE project. The researcher will also use the code to explore problems in space science relative to turbulence and reconnection and global planetary models. We value new initia-tives and ideas suggested by the selected candidate. The SPACE project has guidelines that need to be followed, but it has a broad scope and we will value the input of the selected candidate in choosing the specifics of the research plan and the types of space applications we will use to demonstrate the success of the SPACE project. 

We encourage to publish the results in high impact peer-reviewed journals in the domains of space physics, space weather, computational physics, and/or HPC.

We offer a 2-year contract in a full-time position with a competitive salary. The contract can be fur-ther extended depending on performance evaluation and available financing.

We encourage the selected, within the context of the funding project, which is very broad in the field of space kinetic simulation, to propose and pursue topics of research of his or her interest. We val-ue initiative and promote new directions of research.

In interested please find more information and apply at: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60174384?hl=en&lang=en

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