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| Senior Scientist Position in Astrophysics | Closing date: 2019-03-07
Contact: Manuel Guedel |
| A senior scientist position is available at the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Vienna. We seek an outstanding scientist with strong expertise in project management for the supervision of astronomical instrumentation projects (in particular long-term projects for space missions in the framework of international co-operations, but also ground-based observatory projects), as well as teaching activities. The position can be extended to a permanent contract by mutual agreement. | | ▸ more | The Department of Astrophysics is part of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy at the University of Vienna. Presently about 70 employees work at the department.
We seek an outstanding scientist with strong expertise in project management for the supervision of astronomical instrumentation projects (in particular long-term projects for space missions in the framework of international co-operations, but also ground-based observatory projects), as well as teaching activities.
Initially this position is to be filled for one year. By mutual agreement it can be extended to a permanent contract.
Duration of employment: 1 year (possibility of later permanent employment)
Extent of employment: 20 hours/week funded by university; the Department aims at increasing the employment to 40 hours/week (100%) using third-party funded projects.
Starting date: 1 April 2019 or as soon as possible.
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b (postdoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.
Job Description:
The tasks conform to the collective bargaining agreement of the Austrian universities (see currently §26 (2) and (5)). They comprise as the main activities
1. co-supervision/management and technological implementation of project participations in astronomical space missions in the framework of international co-operations. The missions include in particular, but not exclusively, CHEOPS, PLATO, SMILE, ARIEL, Athena, SPICA, and projects in preparation. Special tasks include software development, the participation in international consortium and/or collaboration meetings, contributions to preparatory studies and documents, (co-)organization of meetings, budget administration for projects, and correspondence with funding agencies.
2. Coordinating management tasks (in particular supervision, project management and meeting organization) in the frame of the local laboratory for astronomical instrumentation that comprises, apart from space projects, also projects of ESO (specifically METIS, MICADO and MOSAIC for the ELT) and the local university-owned Leopold Figl Observatory. It also includes a local student telescope for education. These activities will be shared with two other scientists.
Further tasks include,
3. conducting independent teaching (in agreement with the collective bargaining agreement incl. mandatory classes) and organizing exams,
4. supervision/co-supervision of students, and
5. contributions to general organizational and administrative tasks as well as evaluation procedures.
Profile:
Doctoral degree in astronomy, astrophysics, physics or astronomical instrumentation, with several years of experience in relevant projects. Familiar with at least one programming language; experience with Excel and Word documents; good knowledge of the internet. Very good knowledge of English; basic knowledge of German language is desirable.
Additional qualifications:
Strong experience in project management, leadership qualities, good team-working ability, excellent communication skills, experience in student supervision.
Application documents include CV, a letter of motivation and a summary of previous relevant experience, and two names of potential references; these documents should be submitted via the Job Center of the University of Vienna (http://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than 7 March 2019, mentioning reference number 9425.
For further information please contact Profs. Manuel Güdel, manuel.guedel @ univie.ac.at, or Bodo Ziegler, bodo.ziegler @ univie.ac.at.
The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University puts special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.
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