Job Advertisement: Closing Date 5th September 2012
e-MERLIN National Facility Scientist
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
School of Physics and Astronomy
Salary GBP 29,249 - 35,938 per annum
Closing date :05/09/2012
Reference :EPS-01418
For further details see:
http://tinyurl.com/d9araok
Applications are invited for a research scientist to join the
e-MERLIN/VLBI National Facility science support staff. e-MERLIN is a
network of seven large radio telescopes across the UK linked to a central
operations and processing hub at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire. You will join
the existing e-MERLIN scientific support team who are responsible for the
scientific operations of the e-MERLIN array, developing and promoting its
scientific programme, and facilitating its use by the wider astronomical
community.
The job will involve software and data processing pipeline development,
data analysis, quality control of the data and interaction with users of
the facility as well being involved in the operations of the array. You
will be expected to undertake research based support duties for
approximately 70% of your time, and will have approximately 30% available
for personal research.
You must hold or be about to obtain a relevant PhD or equivalent in
Astronomy, Physics or Engineering. Experience in Radio interferometry
techniques and data processing in current data reduction packages (AIPS,
CASA) is required. You must also possess excellent communication and team
working skills, the ability to work effectively both independently and in
collaboration with other scientists and researchers.
Informal enquiries can be made to Simon Garrington ([log in to unmask])
or Rob Beswick ([log in to unmask])
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