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PhD position at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna | Closing date: 2023-03-27 Contact: Werner W. Zeilinger |
The ELT Instrumentation Group at the Department of Astrophysics seeks applications for a PhD position. | ▸ more | The ELT will offer the astronomical community unprecedented observing capabilities. Deeper than Hubble and sharper than James-Webb. The ELT-Group is involved in three of the instrumentation projects for the ELT: MICADO, METIS, MOSAIC. As such we will have a rare opportunity to play a role in developing and preparing the future scientific trajectory of all three instruments. The group is therefore looking for a PhD student to find and investigate the feasibility of synergistic science cases that lie in the overlapping region of the observational parameter space for these three world-class instruments. The announcement is made for three years, whereby the employment relationship is initially limited to 1.5 years and is automatically extended to a total of three years, unless the employer submits a declaration of non-renewal after a maximum of 12 months. The successful candidate will be member of the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences VISESS (https://visess.univie.ac.at/).
Extent of Employment: 30.0 hours/week
Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) with relevant work experience determining the assignment to a particular salary grade.
Job Description:
Participation in research, teaching and administration:
- Participation in research projects / research studies
- Participation in publications / academic articles / presentations
- We expect the successful candidate to sign a doctoral thesis agreement within 12-18 months.
- Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement
- Supervision of students
- Involvement in the organisation of meetings, conferences, symposiums
- Involvement in the department administration as well as in teaching and research administration
Profile:
Potential candidates must have the following attributes:
- A Masters degree in Astronomy/Astrophysics or Computer Science
- Experience with using astronomical instrumentation and data processing software
- A very strong background in programming with Python or C / C++
- Able to effectively communicate in English
The following experience will be highly regarded:
- An actively used GitHub (or similar) profile
- Experience with software design and deployment
- Experience working with distributed teams
- Experience with developing and maintaining large code bases
- Presentation experience at international conferences
- Experience with agile software development methods
- Ability to speak German
Application documents:
- Letter of motivation
- Academic CV
- List of publications, teaching evaluations (if available)
- Short abstract for a dissertation project
- Degree certificate(s)
Applications including a letter of motivation (German or English) should be submitted via the Job Center to the University of Vienna (https://jobcenter.univie.ac.at) no later than March 27, 2023, mentioning reference number 13911.
The University pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (https://diversity.univie.ac.at/). The University lays 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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