Job Advertisement: Closing Date 26th February 2016
PhD Studentships (STFC/Keele funding) in Astronomy/Astrophysics
Keele University
The Astrophysics Group at Keele University, composed of 11 permanent
academic staff members, has two funded studentships (STFC/Keele funding)
in astronomy/astrophysics to start in September 2016.
Possible projects include (title, supervisors):
- Transiting extra-solar planets with WASP-South (Prof Coel Hellier, Dr
John Southworth and Dr Pierre Maxted)
- Star formation in the Magellanic Clouds (Dr Joana Oliveira)
- Young stars and stellar moving groups in the Gaia-ESO survey (Prof Rob
Jeffries, Dr Nick Wright)
- Stellar Hydrodynamics, Evolution and Nucleosynthesis (Dr Raphael Hirschi)
- Atmospheric properties of A, F and G stars (Dr Barry Smalley)
- High-precision studies of eclipsing binary stars observed using space
telescopes (Dr John Taylor (Southworth))
- The Dynamical Evolution of Massive Star Forming Regions (Dr Nick
Wright, Prof Rob Jeffries)
- Galaxy populations behind the Magellanic Clouds (Dr Jacco van Loon)
- Dusty dying stars in galaxies in the Local Universe (Dr Jacco van Loon)
- Laboratory astrophysics at the Diamond Light Source (Prof Aneurin
Evans, Keele, and Dr Stephen Thompson, Diamond Light Source)
Closing Date 26th February 2016 (applications received by the deadline
will receive first consideration, applications received after the
deadline will be considered until positions are filled)
Notes: applications open to EU students. More information on the
projects, the Keele astrophysics group and how to apply can be found
here: _http://www.keele.ac.uk/researchsubjects/astrophysics/_
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact
Dr Raphael Hirschi
(PhD applications point of contact)
r.hirschi_AT_keele.ac.uk
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