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The ATNF regularly offers postdoctoral fellowships in astrophysics and related areas which are widely advertised every year. For further information on the ATNF Bolton Fellowship and the CSIRO OCE Postdoctoral Fellowships please follow the links and/or contact us.
Links to the ATNF astrophysics webpages can be found here.
If you are interested in taking the following Fellowships at ATNF, please contact us (e.g. Robert.Braun at csiro.au).
Contact: Dr. Robert Braun & Dr. Baerbel Koribalski
Closing Date: 30 Nov 2009
CSIRO Job Ref: 2009/693
AAS Ref.: No. 25891
Applications are invited for the Bolton Fellowship, a three year post-doctoral appointment at the ATNF, Australia's premier radio astronomical facility. Bolton Fellows are encouraged to undertake research and/or development in any area relevant to ATNF observational capabilities.
Contact: Dr. Ray Norris
Closing Date: 30 Nov 2009
CSIRO Job Ref: 2009/637
AAS Ref.: No. 25894
Applications are invited for a three year post-doctoral OCE fellowship at the ATNF, Australia's premier radio astronomical facility. The successful applicant will attack astrophysical and instrumental challenges by (a) exploring techniques to extract optimal information from radio synthesis data, (b) using this to determine source counts and properties of the faintest classes of active and star-forming galaxies in the Australia Telescope Large Area Survey (ATLAS), and (c) interpreting these results in terms of the evolution of galaxies. The resulting algorithms and expertise will then be built into the processing pipeline for the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), due for completion in 2012. The successful applicant will also play a significant role in the design study for the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU), which will use ASKAP to survey the entire visible sky at 20cm to an rms of 10 microJy.
The successful applicant will join the existing ATLAS core team of about 10 individuals who meet weekly to exchange results and ideas, and will also play a significant role in the international EMU collaboration (see askap.pbwiki.com).
Contact: Dr. Simon Johnston
Closing Date: 30 Nov 2009
CSIRO Job Ref: 2009/694
AAS Ref.: No. 25893
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Radio Transient Sky, a three year post-doctoral appointment at the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), Australia's premier radio astronomical facility. The Fellow will be expected to undertake research and/or development towards the recently approved "ASKAP Survey for Variable and Slow Transients (VAST)" project which will use the Asutralian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope to explore the radio transient sky in exciting new ways.
ASKAP is an precursor telescope for the SKA and is currently under construction in a remote location in Western Australia. ASKAP will be equipped with phased array feeds capable of delivery a field of view of 30 square degrees at frequencies between 0.7 and 1.8 GHz. VAST is one of approved large Survey Science projects for ASKAP. The VAST science goals include detection and monitoring of orphan gamma-ray bursts and radio supernovae, the origin and nature of extreme scattering events and to discover previously unknown classes of objects.
e require an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Fellow to work with the ATNF and the VAST survey team to (1) carry out early science on current instruments, (2) develop simulations of the transient sky to refine our survey strategy and (3) design and devlop the pipeline necessary to detect transient sources.
Contact: Dr. George Hobbs
Closing Date: 30 Nov 2009
CSIRO Job Ref: 2009/695
AAS Ref.: No. 25892
Applications are invited for a three year postdoctoral research fellowship with the ATNF pulsar group. The successful candidate will spend at least 75% of their time undertaking research on pulsar timing as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project and in support of the Fermi gamma-ray space-craft mission.
Pulsar timing research at the ATNF is currently divided into two projects. The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project uses high-precision timing of millisecond pulsars in order to search for the signatures of gravitational waves, to improve the Solar System ephemeris and to detect irregularities in the terrestrial time standard. Timing of a large sample of young pulsars is also carried out in order to detect and understand pulsars in the gamma-rays through support of the Fermi mission and to study timing noise and other aspects of pulsar behaviour. We require a dedicated and skilled individual to 1) carry out observations for these projects, 2) support the data reduction and 3) carry out independent research using these data sets.
Page maintained by B. Koribalski (up-dated 11-Dec-2009).