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2015-04-03 14:05:45| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The Astrophysics Group of SRON and the Astronomy Department of the Radboud University Nijmegen have a joint vacancy for a Postdoc fm Vac.nr. 1145 SRONs mission is to bring about breakthroughs in international space research. The institute develops pioneering technology and advanced space instruments, and uses them to pursue fundamental astrophysical research, Earth science and exoplanetary research. SRON and the Radboud University Nijmegen invite applications for this 2year position which is in part funded by NOVA. The postdoc will work in the group of Dr. Peter Jonker. The endgoal of the work is to determine how black holes are formed. The employed tools include timeresolved optical and nearinfrared spectroscopy which will lead to a better understanding of the distribution of black hole masses and black hole space velocities. Data are to a large extent part of the Galactic Bulge Survey that has important collaborators in the U.S., U.K., Chile and Canada. The postdoc will be based both in Utrecht and in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The postdoc is encouraged to work up to a quarter of the time on research projects devised by herhimself. Employment conditions Employment of this fulltime position is by NWO The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and will be for a period of 2 years. The salary will be in accordance with the salary scales of NWO with a maximum of 3.922, gross per month on a fulltime basis highly depending on education and experience. NWO has good secondary employment conditions such as An end of year bonus of 8,33 of the gross yearly salary 42 days of vacation leave a year on fulltime basis An excellent pension scheme Options for additional personal development Excellent facilities for parental leave A holiday allowance of 8 of the gross yearly salary. Further information Dr. Peter Jonker, SRON Utrecht, tel.no. 31 0 88 777 5877. Letter of application Applicants should send a CV including a statement on their motivation to apply for this project and the names and addresses of references with a maximum of two, incl. phone and email, as well as a short maximally 1 A4 outline of their knowledge and experience to jobssron.nl. Please state the vacancy number 1145 in the subject of your email. Applications will be accepted until June 1, 2015. The preferred starting date is Sept 1, 2015.
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