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RESULTS from the Space Physics Postdoc Survey

  April 23, 2026 IAGA blogger

Thanks to everyone who filled out the early-career survey that we distributed in winter 2024-2025. The results are in!

This survey is intended to measure the working conditions and career prospects of non-permanent researchers in the international heliospheric and magnetospheric physics communities.

A PDF of the survey results can be found HERE: 
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16504467

or follow the QR code in this post.

The repo also contains the response data in .csv format, and Python code for plotting.

We are working to write up our interpretation of the results as a peer-reviewed article. We are particularly interested in the challenges faced by post-PhD researchers as they work to advance their careers.

LEARN MORE at the EGU Short Course 1.4: "How are Postdocs Doing? Rethinking the Postdoctoral Experience in Geosciences", Monday, 4 May 2026, 16:15–18:00 Vienna time. We will discuss the survey results to help motivate the panel/group discussion. 

For more information, you may contact the survey administrators: khoraites@spacescience.org , giulia.cozzani@cnrs-orleans.fr , eleanna.asvestari@helsinki.fi , maxime.grandin@fmi.fi

  

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