Ilona Benko

Ilona B. is a Research Engineer at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics since March 2022, specializing in the Radio and Plasma Waves Investigation (RPWI) instrument for the JUICE and SolO missions. Ilona contributed to the RPWI JUICE Near Earth Commissioning team at ESA's Mission Operations Centre in April and May 2023. Prior experience includes roles as a Scientific Programmer at Hvar Observatory, where a non-linear best fitting method for Forbush decrease analysis was developed, and as a Full Stack Developer at IntelliFinder A/S, focusing on GIS and telecom software. Additionally, experience as a Data Scientist at Esoft involved developing and optimizing Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks. Earlier academic roles include serving as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Southern Denmark. Ilona holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Syddansk Universitet and a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems from the University of Zagreb.

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Uppsala, Sweden

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Swedish Institute of Space Physics

The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Institutet för rymdfysik, IRF) is a governmental research institute with about 100 employees. Its primary task is to carry out basic research, education and associated observatory activities in space physics, space technology and atmospheric physics. IRF has employees in Kiruna, Umeå, Uppsala and Lund. The main office is located in Kiruna in northern Sweden (geographic coordinates 67.84° N, 20.41° E). IRF has satellite instruments orbiting the Earth and Mars and others on their way to Mercury. IRF also has responsibility for two instruments on a major European mission (JUICE) to Jupiter and its icy moons in 2022.


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Kiruna, Sweden

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