[Mesa-users] MPA Fellowships - Deadline Nov 15

[Jing-Ze Ma]

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MPA Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astrophysics
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Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching near Munich, Germany.
https://aas.org/jobregister/ad/85bd0f9f
Inquiries:  Mahdieh Schmidt  (Scientific Coordinator)
Email: mschmidt at mpa-garching.mpg.de

The MPA postdoctoral fellowships are prestigious three-year positions
allowing promising young scientists, who completed their PhD in the last
six years, to develop a research program of their choice. We can typically
make several offers each year. We seek candidates who are eager to interact
with our current institute members. This can be because of overlapping
interests with our present staff, but we also welcome those who would bring
new complementary expertise.

Research areas of interest include (but are not limited to) stellar
astrophysics, asteroseismology, interacting binary and multiple systems,
transients and supernovae, gravitational waves, computational astrophysics
and cosmology, the formation and evolution of galaxies and their
supermassive black holes, galactic structure, and star formation, galaxy
clustering, and cosmic large-scale structure, gravitational lensing, cosmic
microwave background studies, and physical cosmology. Further information
can be found here https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/science.

We aim to offer a vibrant environment where you can develop your science
through stimulating interactions with our 14 long-term staff members, about
40 postdocs, and a similar number of PhD students. The four departments and
independent groups in our institute actively interact and collaborate. We
meet informally each morning for science coffee, over lunch, or during
various group meetings and seminars. You will also be invited to join the
local and Max Planck-wide postdoc network.

As a fellow, you will be formally associated with one of our departments,
but we like people who are eager to interact across our departments and
possibly with nearby institutes.  In your application, we would appreciate
it if you could describe who you see yourself interacting with during your
fellowship at MPA.

The departments are:

- Stellar Astrophysics (Selma de Mink)
- Computational Astrophysics (Volker Springel)
- Galaxy Formation and Evolution (Guinevere Kauffmann)
- Physical Cosmology (Eiichiro Komatsu)

Our scientific faculty members are

- Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia
- Eugene Churazov
- Benedetta Ciardi
- Torsten Enßlin
- Marat Gilfanov
- Max Gronke
- Thomas Janka
- Stephen Justham
- Thorsten Naab
- Rüdiger Pakmor
- Fabian Schmidt
- Sherry Suyu
- Simona Vegetti

MPA fellows are welcome to use the institute's excellent in-house computing
facilities and support if their research program requires this. Fellows
will also have privileged access to facilities at the Supercomputer Centre
of the Max Planck Society.

We are located on the Garching research campus, 10 km north of Munich,
which hosts the largest European concentration of astronomers. As a fellow,
you can take advantage of interactions with our next-door colleagues at the
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the
headquarters of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and from the many
(high-profile) visitors who frequently visit.
We offer generous financial support to allow our fellows to attend
(international) conferences or workshops or make work trips.

We strive for excellent science but believe this can only be achieved with
a healthy work-life balance. As an employee of the Max Planck community,
you will also have access to extensive resources and support, see
https://www.mpg.de/family-and-career.

The city of Munich is quite expat-friendly and you can fairly easily find
doctors, a bank, and an insurance company that offers their services in
English. We do offer the possibility to attend German language classes for
those interested.

Salaries are paid at German civil service rates (gross annual pre-tax
income including a special annual payment are currently in the range of
63.000 EUR to 72.500 EUR, depending on post-doctoral experience). The
position comes with 30 days holiday entitlement, social security insurance
(e.g. health insurance), and social benefits according to the regulations
for public service.

Interested candidates are invited to apply by November 15, 2024, link to
the portal will be provided on our MPA website shortly:

https://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/postdoc2024

To be considered, please upload (1) a curriculum vitae, (2) a publication
list (indicating papers that are accepted for publication in refereed
journals), (3) a research statement describing your prior and current
interests and plans at MPA. There are no strict page limits, but we suggest
you keep your statement to 3-5 pages. Optionally, you can also include a
cover letter if you like. (4) please give the names/details of three
referees. The upload of their confidential letters (by November 15, 2024)
will be requested by the portal once you have submitted your application.

The MPA is actively committed to equal opportunity in employment.
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