Job vacancies in Radio Astronomy

Assistant Director - Astrophysics
Australia Telescope National Facility, Sydney Australia

The ATNF is seeking to appoint a leader of its Astrophysics research theme. Activities within this theme comprise world-class astrophysics
research of relevance to the Facility's radio astronomy role. The astrophysics group comprises approximately 15 research scientists and
has a budget of A$4.4M in 2006/07.

The ATNF is Australia's premier radio astronomy research organisation, managed by CSIRO, and is the largest facility of its kind in the southern hemisphere. The Australia Telescope consists of an interferometer array of six 22-metre diameter antennas near Narrabri, which operate from 1.4 to 100 GHz, another 22-m antenna near Coonabarabran specialising in 3-mm spectroscopy and VLBI, and the 64-metre antenna near Parkes. The ATNF also undertakes significant strategic research in future instrumentation, primarily at its Sydney headquarters. The ATNF's activities are identified under four research themes, Astrophysics, Operations, Technologies and xNTD & SKA Phase 1.

The appointee will be one of four ATNF Assistant Directors reporting to the ATNF Director.

This is a rare opportunity for an outstanding individual to lead a significant research group dedicated to the delivery of world-class science outcomes and assisting in determining the future directions astronomy through a truly dynamic research organisation.

This is an indefinite position.

For further information, selection documentation and details on how to apply visit www.csiro.au/careers (Position reference number 2006/502).

 

Professor of Radio Astronomy, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia
As part of a strategic plan to build capacity in radio astronomy in Western Australian, Curtin University of Technology has this week advertised the position of Professor of Radio Astronomy - closing date of August 14. Since early 2005 Curtin has been working with a number of international and Australian universities and CSIRO ATNF on several early demonstrator projects at the Mileura Pastoral Station - the Australian candidate site for the SKA located some 800 km north-east of Perth. The MIT-led NSF-funded Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD), (including the USAF OSR-funded Solar-Heliosphere-Ioniosphere array) and the CSIRO extended New Technology Demonstrator (xNTD) are being planned and established at Mileura. Several other experiments are also being implemented including University of California Berkeley EoR experiment (PAPER)
 
Details of the Professor of Astronomy position can be found at www.jobs.curtin.edu.au .



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