Postdoctoral Researcher, Martian Meteorites

This is an opportunity to take up a research post in world-renowned institution with a unique scientific mission and public profile.

The successful applicant will join a large science group that comprises a group of approximately 300 scientists, that houses some of the largest and most significant scientific collections in the world, that is home to an internationally important natural history library, that includes a suite of advanced analytical and imaging facilities, and that has the opportunity to communicate science to a huge national and international audience.

Applications are open to researchers in the field of meteoritics and planetary sciences, or a related field. The successful applicant will work on a project with the goal of helping to refine the source location of martian meteorites.

Areas of particular interest include (but are not restricted to):

- Mineralogy and geochemistry of martian meteorites

- Mars science

- Hyperspectral data processing and analysis

- Spectral unmixing techniques

- Machine learning

Appointees will join the Division of Mineral and Planetary Sciences that sits in the Department of Earth Sciences. The appointee will report to Dr Peter Grindrod, Research Leader at the NHM, and will be part of a group involved in the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and 2020 Rover missions.