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ALMA-related contract opportunity in PACE

Portuguese nationals, foreign and stateless persons may submit applications to this selection procedure, provided they hold a doctoral degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics or akin areas, have specialised skills and/or expertise in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, and fully comply with the following requirements:

a) The PhD must have been granted at least 3 years ago.

b) Demonstrated scientific and/or professional experience in the area of galaxy formation and evolution, namely the identification and characterization of their AGN activity;

c) The candidate must also have a significant experience in the obtaining, processing and analysis of ALMA observations;

Details about the position available here:

http://www.iastro.pt/ia/jobDetails.html?ID=120

PhD Fellowship in Portugal

The portuguese national science foundation, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) has opened a call for PhD fellowships, from 28th of February to 28th of March 2018. The positions are for up to 4 years (tuition fees are covered). The selection is done by FCT.

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) welcomes pre-applications until March 16th. Selected candidates will be supported by IA.

The Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) is the most prominent research unit in the field of Astrophysics in Portugal, integrating researchers form 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:

http://www.iastro.pt/ia/jobDetails.html?ID=60

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!

Fellowship call for Czech ARC node [PASSED]

The Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Centre offers a research fellowship, funded under the Czech ministry of education project “TYCHO BRAHE”, entitled:

Support of Interferometric (sub)millimetre astronomy projects in the framework of activities of the Czech node of the European ALMA Regional Centre.

Duration: 2 years

More information here.