The more than 200 people who work with us are SRON’s greatest treasure. They bring with them what SRON needs to push the boundaries in space research.
New fresh ideas, but also carefully built expertise. Deep academic knowledge but also a steady hand in the workplace. The specialist eye of an expert but also the whole system clear in mind. Strict discipline but also the most flexible solutions.
Advancing science is a shared drive for many employees. The personal qualities and passions within it vary.
Wonderful astrophysicists and earth researchers pose the questions they want to answer in their research for the next scientific breakthrough. Visionary physicists come up with ideas for new technology that can provide answers. Challenged systems scientists envision the technology working and well, in a flawless, flawless, scientific, ice-cold, compact, complex, but perfect measuring instrument. Dedicated engineers bring their design intuition, their design knowledge as well as their experience to the table at every stage.
All the scientists together with the engineers raise technology in the laboratory. They design, make and demonstrate instruments that will work, from demonstrators to flight models that will go into space.
Our diverse qualities, education, backgrounds, neurotypes, genders and ages of SRON staff complement each other. We inspire each other to work together at a high level to solve the puzzle of the processes that have shaped the cosmos and our Earth and climate.
We do this in most cases not just within SRON, but with many more professionals around us, in an international and professional setting. We always treat each other with respect.
