[obsdoc] Amsterdam LOFAR postdoc

[Yael FUCHS <yfuchs@discovery.saclay.cea.fr>]

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Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 12:13:18 +0200
Subject: Amsterdam LOFAR postdoc

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at the University
of Amsterdam. The position is for two years in the first instance, with
a possibility for renewal, and the successful applicant is to work on
science and technical issues related to The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR)
project.

LOFAR is a new large radio telescope that will explore the lowest energy
extreme of the accessible spectrum to an unprecedented depth. It will
operate at frequencies of 10-240 MHz and, with its ~100 receiver
stations located over an area of 300 km in size, it will be capable of
mapping the sky at arcsec resolution. First operations are planned for
2006. Key science drivers include the bursting and transient Universe,
the high redshift Universe, and the epoch of reionisation. Major
international partners in the LOFAR consortium include ASTRON (the
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy), the NRL (Naval
Research Laboratory) in Washington DC (USA) and MIT Haystack Observatory
(USA). Institutes involved together with ASTRON in the development of
LOFAR in the Netherlands include the astronomy departments of the
universities of Amsterdam, Groningen, Leiden, Nijmegen and Utrecht. For
further information see www.lofar.org.

This position will be one of three contemporaneous postdocs, and the
successful applicant, while based in Amsterdam, will be expected to work
closely with his/her fellow postdocs in Leiden and Groningen, as well as
with the staff of ASTRON in Dwingeloo.

The focus of the Amsterdam position is on the variable / transient sky,
and science projects will include making observations of variable radio
sources such as accreting neutron stars and black holes, flare stars,
pulsars etc. with existing low-frequency receivers such as the 74 MHz
VLA, GMRT etc. "Technical" aspects may include e.g. predictions of the
observational signatures of various kinds of transient radio events and
design of detection strategies for LOFAR.

Within Amsterdam the postdoc will be closely associated with the
high-energy astrophysics and radio pulsars groups (see www.astro.uva.nl
for more information), specifically associated with Dr Rob Fender. These
groups are extremely active in front-line research associated with the
astrophysics of compact objects (black
holes and neutron stars). Preference will be given to candidates with
experience in radio astronomy and/or the astrophysics of compact
objects.

This position is avaliable immediately. Applicants should send a CV,
publication list and research plan to :

Dr R Fender,
Astronomical Institute `Anton Pannekoek', University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

rpf@science.uva.nl

Furthermore, the applicant should arrange for three references to
accompany the application (email is OK).

For further information, you may contact Dr Fender directly at the above
email address.


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