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2015-04-15 18:06:02| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The Astrophysics Group of SRON and the Department of Astrophysics of the Radboud University have a vacancy for a Postdoc fm 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 invites applications for this 21year position funded by ERC Consolidator Grant number 647208 to Dr. Peter Jonker. The postdoc will work in the group of Dr. Peter Jonker. The endgoal of the work is to determine whether intermediatemass black holes exist and if so what their mass distribution is. The employed tools include followup of Gaiadiscovered transients using optical imaging and spectroscopy. The postdoc will be based in Utrecht and part of the time 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 and can be extended by 1 year if both parties agree. 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 Radboud University, 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 email addresses of maximally two references as well as a short maximally 1 A4 outline of their knowledge and experience to jobssron.nl stating vacancy number 1152 in the email subject. Applications will be accepted until June 1, 2015. The preferred starting date is Sept 1, 2015.
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