Job Advertisement: Closing Date 22nd April 2013
X-ray Astronomy position at the National Observatory of Athens
Applications are invited for a 2-year research position at the National
Observatory of Athens in the field of high energy astrophysics. The
successful applicant will primarily work in the development of software for
the eROSITA instrument onboard the SPECTRUM- RG mission. The Applicants
ideally should have obtained a Ph.D. in astronomy or a related field by the
starting date of the appointment.
The main research activities of the X-ray group of the National Observatory
of Athens on the characterisation of the X-ray populations in XMM and
Chandra extragalactic surveys, the cosmological evolution of AGN and their
obscuration properties, the relation between the formation of galaxies and
the the growth of the supermassive black holes at their centres. For more
information on the X-ray group and the National Observatory of Athens
please visit www.astro.noa.gr/xray/members.htm and www.astro.noa.gr. The
applicant will work with I. Georgantopoulos in Athens and in close
collaboration with Dr. H. Brunner as well as members of staff and/or
software engineers at MPE.
The starting date of the post is before August 2013 and the gross monthly
salary is 2,500 Euros. Interested candidates should send a curriculum
vitae, a list of publications, and a brief description of research
interests to Dr. Ioannis Georgantopoulos ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>)
before the 22nd of April 2013. Two letters of reference should also be sent
to the same address by the application deadline. Informal inquires can also
be made at the email address above. The position is funded in the framework
of the program 'KRIPIS' of the Greek Secretariat of Research and
Technology.
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