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The EPEC@EPSC working group teamed up with the DPS Professional Development Subcommittee to offer several activities for early careers at the conference. The activities ranged from a networking reception and social event to a short course on mental health and a mentoring program. Early careers also had the chance to connect with EPEC during the EPEC general assembly and throughout week at the EPEC booth. 

We appreciate everyone who has participated in our activities and plans to become involved in our network. If you enjoyed our events and would like to help us improve them, we also invite you to fill out this survey. 

Members of the Europlanet Society, the Society’s Executive Office team from the ESF, and its Early Career network (EPEC) attended the joint DPS-EPSC meeting in San Antonio (TX, US) between the 1st and 6th of October 2023. At the Europlanet Society booth, one part was staffed by members of the Executive Office team, allowing the visitors to discover, learn more about, or sign up for the Europlanet Society or its newsletter. Executive Office and Board members met with DPS leadership for important discussions. A second part of the booth was dedicated to EPEC, who also offered diverse activities during the week: a workshop on mental health, a meeting for PhDs students and young postdocs, and a social gathering. It was great to meet so many of you in person, and we look forward to seeing you next year at EPSC 2024!

The Europlanet Mentorship platform aims to provide a central point of contact for early career scientists to develop expertise, ask questions and discuss career plans with more established members of the planetary community. 

Through the Europlanet Mentorship programme, we aim that Mentees are given the support they need to become collaborative and open-minded colleagues and leaders, enabling them to pursue their chosen career paths. 

We will put Mentees in contact with a Mentor who can support them to take steps to achieve better levels of professional success. In matching Mentees with Mentors, we will try to find synergies between the Mentor’s areas of strength and the Mentee’s mentoring needs, including shared interests and relevant areas of experience. 

We present a post-doctoral position to study the Martian Atmosphere that we (Miguel A. Lopez-Valverde and Francisco González-Galindo) are offering at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA/CSIC) in Granada, Spain, in the frame of our recently approved NOMADACS2 project "Investigation of the atmosphere of Mars and its evolution with the instruments NOMAD and ACS on Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter and with the Mars Planetary Climate Model". 

The position is initially for 2 years, with a possible extension contingent upon funding availability and performance. 

A postdoc position in planetary field is available at LESIA-Paris Observatory. The position is 1 + 1 years. 

The research work will be in support of MMX JAXA mission and in particular of MIRS (MMX InfraRed Spectrometer) developed at LESIA involving modelling and  laboratory work to simulate the surface properties of Phobos and Deimos. The laboratory measurements will be performed at MIRS calibration facility of LESIA (or outside if necessary). The LESIA facility is already equipped with several spectrometers, with a desiccator apparatus (by JAXA collaboration), and will additionally host the MIRS Engineer Model. 

The postdoc will be associated scientist of MIRS-MMX and will participate to the MIRS-MMX science meetings remotely and in person in Japan. 

Please provide (within October 31st , 2023) to Antonella Barucci a detailed CV (including a list of publications), a cover letter, and the names and contact details of two potential references. 

We are opening a PhD position (3 years funding) to work on themes at the interface between stellar physics and exoplanet atmospheres. The selected candidate will split their time between INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo and CEA Paris-Saclay. We would appreciate if you could forward this email to any students who might be interested. They should contact us by email (addresses below; informal inquiries welcome). We will commence the review of applications soon and keep the position open until a suitable candidate is identified. 

Antonio García Muñoz (antonio.garciamunoz@cea.fr) 

Giuseppina Micela (giuseppina.micela@inaf.it) 

Cesare Cecchi Pestellini (cesare.cecchipestellini@inaf.it) 

Pierre-Olivier Lagage (pierre-olivier.lagage@cea.fr) 

ESA solicits the participation of the European community in the role of ESA-appointed representatives to the NASA Great Observatory Maturation Program's (GOMAP) Science, Technology, Architecture Review Team (START) for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission. 

ESA will appoint up to three representatives to the START. These positions will be for the duration of the START activities (expected to be between 18-36 months) or for a duration of 36 months, whichever comes first. With the exception of expenses incurred while travelling for activities related to the current call (a maximum of two transatlantic trips per year), ESA will not fund the activities of the scientists and each proposer is responsible for securing their own funding from other sources. 

The ExoSystèmes workshop series aims to unite the French community interested in stellar-planet system formation, evolution, planetary diversity, their atmospheres, orbital architecture, and habitability around different types of stars. Its goal is to encourage and strengthen the numerous instrumental, observational, experimental, and theoretical synergies in our scientific communities in France. 

This fourth workshop, ExoSystèmes IV, is open to the entire (exo)planetary and stellar community. Its primary objective is to prepare for the prospective exercise by the French National Institute for Earth Sciences and Astronomy (INSU) in the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The event will span three full days, from Tuesday, January 30 to Thursday, February 1, 2024, at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon (Meyrieu Auditorium). 

Registration Deadline: December 1, 2023