Category Archives: Calls

PhD Fellowship in Portugal

The Portuguese national science foundation, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) has opened a call for Ph.D. fellowships, from the 2nd up to the 31st of March 2020.
The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) welcomes pre-applications to support selected candidates for documents, administrative tasks, and related activities.
The IA is the most prominent research unit in the field of Astrophysics in Portugal, integrating researchers from the Universidade of Porto and the University of Lisbon, and is responsible for a major fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in this area. The research and development effort at the IA includes most of the topics at the forefront of research in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, complemented by work on instrumentation and systems with potential use in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
For more information please check:

https://www.fct.pt/noticias/index.phtml.en?id=502&/2020/2/FCT_announces_the_2020_Call_for_PhD_Research_Scholarships

or

the IA dedicated webpage:

http://www.iastro.pt/ia/jobs.html

We are currently looking for strong candidates to support in this call, in particular for research with ALMA. If you know of promising students, please let us know!

Call for Research Contracts in Portugal

The national Portuguese Research Council (FCT, Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia) is opening a call for research contracts within different areas of research for different profiles: Junior, Assistant, Principal, and Coordinating researcher. The positions are up to 6 years and the candidates need support from a host institution in Portugal.
The Institute of Astronomy would be very keen to support candidatures, providing full support to the potential candidates. Deadline 26th of February 2020.
The details are here:
http://www.iastro.pt/ia/jobDetails.html?ID=136

ALMA-ACA Supplemental Call for Proposals

A Supplemental Call for ACA telescopes is open to use standard observing modes, as allowed for ACA stand-alone proposals in the Main Call. Proposals may request to use the 7-­m array only or the 7­-m array plus Total Power array.

All proposals accepted in the Cycle 7 Supplemental Call will receive priority Grade “C” and will have lower observing priority than ACA proposals accepted in the Cycle 7 Main Call.

The ALMA Cycle 7 proposal submission deadline is 15:00 UT on Tuesday, 1 October 2019.

ALMA Cycle 7 is currently scheduled from October 2019 to September 2020. Proposals accepted in the Supplemental Call will be scheduled for observations between January 2020 and September 2020. Further details can be found on the ESO website.

Cycle 7 Call for Proposals

The ALMA Director, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) and the partner organizations in East Asia, Europe, and North America, is pleased to announce the ALMA Cycle 7 Call for Proposals (CfP) for scientific observations to be scheduled from October 2019 to September 2020. It is anticipated that 4300 hours of the 12-m Array time and 3750 hours of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) time, also known as the Morita Array, will be available for successful proposals from Principal Investigators (PIs) in Cycle 7.

ALMA Cycle 7 proposal submission will open at

15:00 UT on Tuesday, 19 March 2019

The Cycle 7 proposal submission deadline is

15:00 UT on Wednesday, 17 April 2019

For further details visit the ALMA Science Portal.

PhD. Space Program Opened

The fifth call (2019) for 5 PhD Fellowships of the PhD::SPACE Program, funded by the FCT PD Program initiative is now open for applications to be submitted by the 31st of March 2019.

This program is offered by the Universities of Porto (www.up.pt) and Lisboa (www.ulisboa.pt), having as host the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (www.iastro.pt), with poles at Porto and Lisboa.

Further details can be found at the PhD::SPACE website at http://phd-space.iastro.pt/ and in the webpage for applicants http://phd-space.iastro.pt/?page_id=33

The list of PhD Topics available for selection in the 2019 Call will be listed at http://phd-space.iastro.pt/?page_id=600

For further details, please contact the Program Director:
Mario J. P. F. G. Monteiro (mario.monteiro@astro.up.pt)

 

ALMA Cycle 6

The PACE, on behalf of the Joint ALMA Observatory, is pleased to announce the ALMA Cycle 6 Call for Proposals for scientific observations is now open. ALMA Cycle 6 is currently scheduled from October 2018 to September 2019. Investigators of any professional background, nationality or affiliation are invited to submit proposals before the deadline of 15:00 UT on Thursday 19 April 2018.

Advertisement for researcher (junior to advanced level) contracts in Portugal

The portuguese national science foundation, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) has issued a call for research contracts, in the context of the Stimulus to Scientific Employment which will be open from 19th January until  the 16th February 2018, 17:00 (Portuguese time). The positions are for up to 6 years. The gross monthly income corresponds to the salary of a Junior Researcher (level 33 – 2.128,34€), Assistant Researcher (index 195 – 3.191,82€), Principal Researcher (index 220 – 3.601,03€) or Coordinating Researcher (index 285 – 4.664,97€), depending on the profile of the candidate. The selection is done by FCT. Each candidate will have to select and have the support from a host institution in Portugal.
The Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA) welcomes pre-applications to the FCT – Stimulus to Individual Scientific Employment 2017 call.
IA is the reference institution for this area in Portugal, integrating researchers from the University of Porto and the University of Lisbon, and is responsible for a major fraction of the national productivity in international ISI journals in this area. The research and development effort at the IA includes most of the topics at the forefront of research in Astrophysics and Space Sciences, complemented by work on instrumentation and systems with potential use in Astronomy and Astrophysics. IA is also the host of the Portuguese ALMA Centre of Expertise.
For more information please check:
PACE is currently looking for strong candidates to support in this call.  If you are interested or know of someone who is, please let PACE knows!

2017 Call for 5 PhD Fellowships

 

The fourth call (2017) for 5 PhD Fellowships of the PhD::SPACE Program,

funded by the FCT PD Program initiative is open for applications to be submitted by the ***31st of March 2017***.

The details of the Call are provided at:

http://phd-space.iastro.pt/?page_id=1045

This program is offered by the Universities of Porto (www.up.pt) and Lisboa (www.ulisboa.pt), having as host the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (www.iastro.pt), with poles at Porto and Lisboa.

Further details can be found at the PhD::SPACE website at http://phd-space.iastro.pt/

and in the webpage for applicants

http://phd-space.iastro.pt/?page_id=33

The list of PhD Topics available for selection in the 2017 Call are listed at

http://phd-space.iastro.pt/?page_id=1149

For further details, please contact the Program Director:
Mario J. P. F. G. Monteiro (mario.monteiro@astro.up.pt)

ALMA Cycle 5 Pre-announcement

On 16 December 2016 the ALMA website released a pre-announcement of the Cycle 5. The proposal deadline will be on 20 April 2016. The observing Cycle will start on October 2017 span 12 months.

The Cycle will offer 4000 hours on 12-m Array time and 3000 hours on the Atacama Compact Array (ACA). Cycle 5 will offer the same proposal types as in Cycle 4.

Some anticipation about the capabilities:

  • At least ten (10) 7-m antennas (for short baselines) and three (3) 12-m antennas (for making single-dish maps) in the ACA;
  • Receiver bands 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (wavelengths of about 3.1, 2.1, 1.6, 1.3, 0.87, 0.74, 0.44 and 0.35 mm, respectively);
  • Maximum baselines for the 12 m antenna configurations will vary from 0.15 km to 16 km;
  • Single field interferometry (all bands) and mosaics (Bands 3 to 9) with the 12-m Array and the 7-m Array;
  • Single dish spectral line observations in Bands 3 to 8

The opportunities offered for the first time are:

1. Band 4 polarization: Proposals will be accepted for Band 4 observations in all available polarization modes.

2. Band 5 observations: Proposals will be accepted for spectral line (12-m, 7-m and Total Power arrays) and continuum (12-m and 7-m arrays) observations in Band 5. Proposals will be accepted for Band 5 observations in all available polarization modes.

Further details available in the ALMA website

 

2016 Call for PhD Studentships and Post-Doctoral fellowships

The Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) will open a call for PhD and Post-Doctoral fellowships, from 15th June to 15th July 2016. The positions are for up to 4 and 6 years, respectively for PhD and Post-Doctoral applications (tuition fees are covered in the case of PhD fellowships). The selection is done by FCT.

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) welcomes pre-applications until June 30th, 2016.

More details in the IA announcement page.