Employment
Please also see Fellowships.
HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE SITE MANAGER THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, MCDONALD OBSERVATORY The University of Texas McDonald Observatory seeks highly qualified and strongly motivated applicants for the position of Site Manager of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET). The HET is a nine-meter class telescope located at McDonald Observatory near Ft. Davis in far west Texas. This position is responsible for day and night operations of the HET facility, and reports to the McDonald Observatory Director. The Site Manager leads a group of 19 staff members who operate, maintain, and support the continued development of the telescope. The HET will shortly be upgraded to a ten-meter class telescope with a 20 arc minute field of view, and equipped with a large suite of fiber-fed low resolution optical spectrographs in pursuit of benchmark measurements of dark energy. The Site Manager will play a key role in this upgrade and in the collection of the dark energy experiment. The Site Manager strives to maintain and develop a strong working relationship between the HET staff, the local McDonald Observatory staff, Austin-based Observatory scientists and engineers, and the HET scientific community. He or she prepares the annual operations plan and budget for the HET Board's approval, and reports on the HET's overall status at HET Board meetings. The Site Manager also provides periodic reports to the Board and the HET user community. Required Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications: The Site Manager may reside in Observatory housing on site, or in the immediate vicinity of the Observatory. Interested applicants should send a resume, statement of interest, and the names of at least three professional references to: Attn: Elizabeth DonihooApplicants should also view a complete job description at: http://www.utexas.edu/hr/empl and apply on-line at: http://www.utexas.edu/hr/jobs referencing the job number 08-03-17-01-0416, and job title, Facility Manager. The University of Texas at Austin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Security sensitive
position, criminal background check will be conducted on applicant selected.
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP / RESEARCH SCIENTIST - HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE DARK ENERGY EXPERIMENT The University of Texas at Austin Department of Astronomy 2511 Speedway, RLM 16.218 Austin, TX 78712 Attention: Karl Gebhardt, Professor Email inquiries: gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu, hill@astro.as.utexas.edu McDonald Observatory and the HETDEX project seek two experienced researchers for Postdoctoral or Research Associate/Scientist positions in extragalactic observational astronomy and instrumentation with the McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin. The positions are based in Austin and are associated with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) which will outfit the 9.2-m HET with a new wide field of view and 150 copies of a unit integral field spectrograph called VIRUS. See http://www.as.utexas.edu/hetdex/. Information on research and McDonald facilities is available at http://www.as.utexas.edu/. The positions may be at the postdoctoral or Research Associate/Scientist level, depending on experience. Postdoctoral positions have an initial tenure of three years, with expectation of extension and promotion to Research Associate following satisfactory performance. Research Associates are on the parallel Research track at UT Austin. We seek one researcher experienced in handlng large datasets, preferably with experience in integral field spectroscopy, to lead the execution of the extensive HETDEX pilot survey studying the properties of Lyman-alpha emitters. The other position requires experience in astronomical instrumentation, and offers the opportunity to be involved with the design and construction of the world's largest integral field spectrograph, as well as the many other technical aspects of the project. Appointment will begin as soon as possible, and certainly before June 2008. Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. upon arrival and to reside in Austin. Applicants should submit a resume, a statement of research experience, and letters of recommendation from three scientists familiar with the applicant's research by December 15, 2007. We encourage those interested to contact Karl Gebhardt and Gary Hill for more details. |
Astronomy Program · The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, Texas 78712
prospective student inquiries: studentinfo@astro.as.utexas.edu
site comments: www@www.as.utexas.edu