Astronomy and Astrophysics

Jobs

Specific Positions

IT Project Officer (Python developer) to support MWA (ICRAR) - deadline 23 June 2009

Professional Appointments at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) - deadline 5 May 2009

RASE CoE Fellowships (deadline 12 December 2008)

The University of Western Australia and Curtin University of Technology are joint venture partners in the Radio Astronomy Science and Engineering Centre of Excellence, funded by the Western Australian government and the two University partners. The goals of the Centre are to: help build world-class and internationally successful radio astronomy and technology research capacity in Western Australia, with progressively increasing industry links, capable of leading scientific planning and execution of key research programs for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinders; support activities undertaken at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory (MRO); support the scientific success of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) project via strong collaborations with CSIRO; support the development of other SKA pathfinder projects, such as the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), with collaborating international institutions; develop radio astronomy technologies and associated ICT to meet the scientific needs of the Western Australian astronomical community; communicate forefront science and technology to schools, teachers and the Western Australian community.
The following 3-year appointments are available immediately, based at UWA:
APPLICATION DETAILS: For copies of the position description please access the website http://jobs.uwa.edu.au/. Written applications quoting the reference number, personal contact details, qualifications and experience, a brief research plan and publication list, along with contact details of three referees should be sent to Director, Human Resources, The University of Western Australia, M350, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009 or emailed to jobs@uwa.edu.au by the closing date.

Ongoing Vacancies and Fellowships

UWA Fellowships

The University offers a small number of fellowships and awards each year, but most research fellows are appointed through group research funding and national competitive schemes. A list of fellowships and awards can be found at the scholarships web site.

ARC Fellowships

The Australian Research Council offers a number of competitive fellowships, particularly the ARF, QEII, Future, and Laureate fellowship schemes. For details, see the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP) at the ARC web site.

G08 European Fellowships Scheme

The Group of Eight is calling for applications under the Go8 European Fellowships scheme.

On offer are eight fellowships to early career researchers in Europe to work in one of the Go8 universities for up to six months. Each fellowship is worth AUD 20,000.The Fellowships are open to eligible researchers in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.

Further information and the application pack are available on the Go8 website.

Fellowship applications to UWA must be supported by a UWA academic supervisor and submitted to the UWA Research Grants Office by the 31st October 2008:

  • 3 paper copies of the completed and signed application form.
  • 1 completed and signed Application Cover Sheet 'Gold Form'.
  • 1 electronic version sent to olivia.langensiepen@uwa.edu.au or (either .rtf or .pdf version).The filename of the application should conform to the following naming convention: [Surname][EURO].pdf eg SmithEURO.pdf.

Scholarships

See the UWA Astronomy and Astrophysics Scholarships web pages.

Academic and non-academic

All UWA vacancies are advertised through the UWA Job Vacancy pages.