Fellowships
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (HETDEX)
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The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory and Department of Astronomy seek a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) team. The Fellow will be actively involved in all aspects of data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation. HETDEX will begin operations in 2012, running for at least three years. HETDEX is a blind, large-scale, redshift survey, designed to obtain nearly a million redshifts of Lyman-alpha emitting galaxies which will be used to provide percent-level measures of the expansion rate of the Universe, centered at z=2.4. HETDEX uses a suite of spectrographs and IFUs comprising over 33,000 fibers spread over the 22' field of the 10-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope. There will be significant additional science enabled by such a powerful instrument and survey, and the Fellow will have direct access to both. Additional information on HETDEX can be obtained at hetdex.org.
Candidates should hold a Ph.D. upon arrival and will reside in Austin. The position has an initial term of one year with expected duration of three years, starting Sept 1, 2012.
Applicants should submit a resumé and a statement of research interests, and letters of recommendation from three professional scientists familiar with the applicant's experience and research by January 2, 2012 via email to Prof. Karl Gebhardt, gebhardt@astro.as.utexas.edu.
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W. J. MCDONALD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
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McDonald Observatory
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C1402
Austin, TX 78712-0259
Attention: Dr. David Lambert, Director
The University of Texas McDonald Observatory announces competition for the W. J. McDonald Postdoctoral Fellowship. This Fellowship is restricted to new Ph.D. graduates without previous postdoctoral experience. The applicant's research interest may be in any area of astronomy and astrophysics and may be either observational or theoretical. The observing facilities of McDonald Observatory available for research include the 9.2-m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the 2.7-m Harlan J. Smith Telescope, the 2.1-m Otto Struve Telescope, and the 0.8-m wide-field imaging telescope. McDonald Observatory also supports a program in millimeter wavelength research with the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory on Mauna Kea. The Texas Advanced Computing Center includes the Ranger and Lonestar computers and the Visualization Laboratory. The Fellowship includes funding for research expenses, including travel. Additional funds are available for relocation expenses. Initial appointment will be for one year beginning September 2012, with the expectation of renewal for a second and third year following satisfactory research performance. Candidates are expected to hold a Ph.D. upon arrival and to reside in Austin.
Applicants should send a resumé and a statement of proposed research to be conducted at UT Austin during the Fellowship to Dr. David L. Lambert at either the above mailing address or the physical (express mail) address, or via email (director@astro.as.utexas.edu). Candidates should also arrange to have letters of recommendation sent to Dr. Lambert by three professional scientists familiar with the applicant's research by November 30, 2011. EOE/AAE.
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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THEORETICAL COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Department of Astronomy and Texas Cosmology Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in theoretical cosmology and astrophysics with Professor Paul Shapiro. A background in cosmology, computational cosmology, and related areas would be useful, including galaxy and large-scale structure formation, cosmic reionization, intergalactic medium, high-redshift star formation, gas and gravitational dynamics, radiative processes and radiative transfer, and numerical simulation. This position will be for up to three years, subject to satisfactory performance. Renewal beyond this is also possible, for a particularly successful fellow, subject to the availability of funds. Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a summary of past research accomplishments and current research interests and plans, and arrange for at least three letters of reference to be sent by December 10, 2010. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. EOE/AAE
Application Submission Address:
Professor Paul Shapiro
Dept. of Astronomy
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, C1400
2511 Speedway
Austin, TX 78712
USA
email: shapiro@astro.as.utexas.edu
telephone: 512-471-9422
FAX: 512-471-6016