Overview
<p> </p> <p><span style="font-size:16.0px"><strong>Location</strong></span><br>ESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain or ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands or STScI, Baltimore, USA.</p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>The opportunity</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify">ESA’s postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme offers early-career scientists and engineers the opportunity to carry out independent research in a variety of disciplines relating to space science, space applications or space technology. ESA Fellowships provide a unique opportunity to work with scientists and engineers at the forefront of space science, and experience first hand how ESA works with communities across the Member States to maximise the scientific return from its missions.
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