Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics

Job title:

Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics

Company

Yale University

Job description

Description:The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for the YCAA Prize Fellowship. The YCAA is part of a vibrant research community in the Astronomy and Physics departments at Yale. The Fellowship is for three years (renewed annually subject to performance) and offers salary, benefits and research funds comparable to the Hubble and other similar prize fellowships.Yale offers a lively academic community and access to world-class astronomical facilities, including the Keck and Palomar telescopes. Because Yale is an institutional member of the SDSS-IV and SDSS-V collaborations, YCAA Fellows can automatically join both. YCAA Fellows also have access to High-Performance Computing facilities at Yale.Fellows are expected to carry out their own research program, although research interests that intersect with those of Yale astrophysics faculty (see ) are preferred. Active research at Yale spans most areas in astrophysics and includes theoretical, observational, and instrumentation efforts.Qualifications:Applicants must have received their Ph.D. in astronomy or astrophysics/cosmology by June 2025.Application Instructions:Applicants should apply online at http://apply.interfolio.com/153840 and must submit their curriculum vitae, bibliography, and a brief (max 3 pages) description of their anticipated research program by November 1, 2024. Candidates should also arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be submitted to the above URL by November 1. YCAA Fellowship candidates will also be considered for any other open postdoctoral positions in astrophysics at Yale in their fields of interest, unless they ask to be considered only for the YCAA Fellowship.Applications that are complete by November 1, 2024 will be assured of full consideration.On your CV, please indicate the major category of your research interest by the number of the item in the list below. If a second category would also apply, please indicate that number as well. Please put this info on your CV in the same area as your contact info. For example: “Areas of Research: 10, 11”1. Sun
2. Solar System
3. Extrasolar Planets
4. Stars, stellar evolution
5. Supernovae, planetary nebulae, ISM, dust, star formation, young stellar objects
6. Compact Galactic objects (stellar mass black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs)
7. Milky Way, Galactic center
8. Local Group
9. More distant galaxies, galaxy evolution
10. AGN, quasars, supermassive black holes
11. Clusters of galaxies, large-scale structure, IGM
12. Cosmology, CMB, dark matter, dark energy
13. Gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy
14. Relativistic astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts
15. Computational astrophysics/cosmology
16. Astrobiology
17. Laboratory astrophysics
18. Instrumentation

Expected salary

Location

New Haven, CT

Job date

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:59:50 GMT

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