IRAP - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie jobs and careers

About IRAP - Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie

IRAP’s scientific objectives concern the study and understanding of the Universe and its contents: the Earth as a planet, its ionized space environment, the sun and its planets, the stars and their planetary systems, the interstellar environment , galaxies, the very first stars and the primordial Big Bang. With activities of design, construction, integration and operation of instruments on the ground and in space as well as laboratory experiments allowing the characterization of physical processes, IRAP is one of the major poles of ground-space astrophysics in France. IRAP has numerous collaborations both regionally and internationally with organizations such as CNES, ESA, ESO, NASA, JAXA … IRAP benefits from numerous fundings through calls for projects, notably within the framework of the National Research Agency (ANR) and the Horizon 2020 program of the European Union.