Job Advertisement: Closing Date 30th April 2018
University of Oxford
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in CMB Polarized Foregrounds
Polarization measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are one
of the most exciting areas in observational cosmology, and dealing with
astrophysical foregrounds to the CMB is one of the major challenges in this
area. We have an opportunity for a researcher to join our team working on
observation and analysis of foreground data, using current generation
instruments, and also to help plan for the next generation of experiments.
Oxford is leading the C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS), which is a project to
measure the brightness of the whole sky in both temperature and
polarization and is a collaboration also involving partners at Manchester,
Caltech and South Africa. C-BASS has already observed the entire northern sky
at 5 GHz and is currently observing the southern sky. The successful
candidate will join the team in Oxford working on analysis of data from
C-BASS and other CMB experiments. They will also contribute to the design of
NextBASS, which will observe over a broad range of microwave frequencies, and
be involved in multi-national CMB projects such as LiteBIRD.
http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/job-opportunities
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