2 PhD positions in Laboratory Astrophysics and Modelling
Job description: Two early stage researcher (ESR) positions are available for for 3 years to undertake research at QUB as part of recently formed LASSIE network. Candidates will have the opportunity to work towards a PhD during their work. – These posts are not open to candidates have already obtained a PhD.
Post 1 will help develop chemical and physical models of protoplanetary disks around young stars through incorporation of new laboratory data, as well as make predictions for observations using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre Array) facility in Chile.
Post 2 will help develop a new experiment to investigate interactions of singly and multiply charged ions with analogues of astrophysical ices in the laboratory.
Salary: £25286.35 per annum subject to Euro/Sterling exchange rates.
Closing date: 4.00 pm, Tuesday 1st June. It is anticipated that interviews will be held during the week of the 14th of June.
To qualify as an Early Stage Researcher, candidates must have obtained a Masters Degree or equivalent (e.g. 4 or more year undergraduate degree) in Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy or a related Engineering field and not completed more than four years of postgraduate research or obtained a PhD. It is desirable that candidates with have experience in one or more of the following areas; experimental physics, chemical physics, physical chemistry, surface science, computational chemistry and astronomy, or theoretical astrochemistry and astrophysics.
All nationalities, with the exception of UK nationals, are eligible to apply but candidates have to fulfil the EU mobility criteria and will be required to work at a site outside their home country.
Further Details are available at
www.qub.ac.uk/mp/ampr/esr_ad.html
At Physics and Astronomy, Queen’s University Belfast, Centre for Plasma Physics and Astrophysics Research Centre
Field(s): astrophysics, atomic physics, chemical physics, chemistry, computational physics, molecular physics
Application deadline: Jun 01 (Tue), 2010
Submitted: May 17, 2010
Contact: Prof Philip Dufton
E-mail: p.dufton@qub.ac.uk
Phone: +44 28 9097 3552
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Address: Dept. Physics and Astronomy Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, N. Ireland, UK BT7 1NN