ESA Research Fellowship in Collaborative Open Design (Postdoctoral Position)

[Andreas.Rathke at esa.int]

The European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team is looking for highly 
motivated young researchers, with good analytical and communication skills 
and excellent aptitude for team work. The candidate should have obtained a 
PhD or be about to.

Free software development has led to impressive programs of high quality. 
First attempts to transfer the collaborative methods of open source 
development to problems outside the software domain were recently 
conducted with remarkable success. Establishing a collaborative 
development environment within ESA seems to promise great synergies. 

The research fellow should have sound knowledge in collaborative, open 
source developments. He/She should have experience in both technical and 
organisational aspects of free software design. The candidate should 
preferably have experience in the maintenance/administration of a free 
software project.

His/her experience of the working methods, cooperation schemes, planning 
and implementation techniques specific to distributed, collaborative 
software development will help identifying ways to transfer these methods 
and techniques to processes relevant for ESA General Studies Programme and 
the Advanced Concepts Team.


The general conditions of eligibility of the ESA Research (Internal) 
Fellowship Program should be fulfilled; these can be found at 
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Careers_at_ESA/SEM19DXO4HD_0.html

Applicants should send their CV and covering letter, stating their 
research interests to: ACT at esa.int

Deadline for application submission is 15/11/2004. However please note 
that applications will be given consideration until the position is 
filled, so early applications are encouraged.

To learn more about the Advanced Concepts Team take a look at 
http://www.esa.int/act

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Andreas Rathke
ESA Advanced Concepts Team
ESTEC (DG-X), Keplerlaan 1, 2201 AZ Noordwijk ZH, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)71 565 4497, Fax: +31 (0)71 565 8018
http://www.esa.int/act