Grant: Collaborative Research and Training Experience

We live in a remarkable age when hundreds of new planets are being discovered every year, rewriting our understanding of the universe and our place within it. To exploit the deluge of new data, cutting-edge technologies are being developed in robotics, aerospace, remote sensing, adaptive optics and spectroscopy. Scientists must work hand-in-hand with engineers and industry partners to build on Canada's past advances and enable major new discoveries of tomorrow. *The proposed Technologies for Exo-Planetary Science (TEPS) CREATE Training Program will take full advantage of Canada's major investments in such breakthrough facilities and missions as the James Webb Space Telescope, the OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Sample Return and the Thirty Meter Telescope, as well as Canada Foundation for Innovation grants to our co-applicants for the Canadian Planetary Simulator and the SPIRou infrared spectrometer, to position our trainees at the forefront of the rapidly developing and exciting field of exo-planetary science. We will achieve the primary objectives of the CREATE program by offering students and postdoctoral fellows innovative and collaborative training environments, incorporating internships, student mobility and professional training to address scientific challenges associated with Canada's strategic research priority in Advanced Manufacturing. The program will provide trainees with the breadth and depth of expertise and skills required to fill gaps in job markets, specifically in the key industrial sectors of robotics, aerospace, optical technologies and space exploration.*