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Postdoctoral position : stars and stellar populations in globular clusters | Closing date: 2021-10-15 Contact: Ariane Lançon |
We invite applications for a postdoctoral position at the Astronomical Observatory in Strasbourg, to work within an international project team on the stars and stellar populations of globular clusters. | ▸ more | We invite applications for a postdoctoral position at the Astronomical Observatory in Strasbourg, to work on the stars and stellar populations of globular clusters in the context of recent cluster-formation scenarios. The work will take place within an international collaboration supported by ANR-funds, with partners at Université de Montpellier (LUPM), Université de Lyon (CRAL), the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile.
Via the calculation of new stellar evolution models and of the corresponding spectra (for stars and stellar populations), and via the gathering of reference observations of globular clusters to which models can be compared, the project aims at a better understanding of cluster formation processes, that accounts for the peculiar abundance patterns seen among their stars. Hence expertise in either stellar physics (in particular, but not exclusively, the synthesis of spectra for cool giants) or in the study of remote stellar populations (observations, model-data comparisons) will be sought.
Candidates should be fluent in written and oral English, and will be expected to participate actively in the scientific life of the collaboration.
Strasbourg Observatory is a lively laboratory of the national research organization CNRS and of the University of Strasbourg. It hosts almost 100 people, among which approximately 20 PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. It is located on the central university campus, at a 15 min walking distance from the historical city center of Strasbourg, or a 15 min tram ride from Germany. Its research topics range from cosmology to compact objects, including topics as diverse as reionization, Galactic archeology, dwarf galaxies, dynamics in Newtonian and non-Newtonian frameworks, magneto-hydrodynamics, globular clusters, interstellar matter, stellar populations, high energy astrophysics. It also hosts the CDS which provides an excellent context for the exploration data archives.
More details on the offer and the application process : https://bit.ly/3yYXH4N .
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