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Astrophysics Job Rumour Mill 2005-2006
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Postdoc or term positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| AAAS (AST at NSF) | Tammy Bosler |
| Ames (NASA) | Jonathan Fortney (Spitzer) |
| University of Amsterdam | Casey Law (LOFAR) |
| Annecy | offer made: Veruska Muccione |
| University of Arizona and Steward | Jan Budaj, Chris Groppi (NSF), DeWayne Halfen (NSF); Benjamin Weiner (MIPS) |
| ASTRON (Netherlands) | shortlist: Aeree Chung, Ayesha Begum, Eva Manthey, George Heald, Laura Birzan, Sebastian Jester |
| ANU | David Yong |
| Berkeley (University of California) | Matthew Muterspaugh (Townes Fellowship),Jun Zhang (TAC fellow), Niccolo Bucciantini (Hubble), offer made: Anthony Piro, Margaret Pan (declined), Mike Kuhlen(declined), Miller offers to: Juna Kollmeier, Dan Marrone, Jenny Greene |
| Bologna | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura, Fabrice Lamareille (COSMOS fellowship) |
| Bonn Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie der Universitaet Bonn | Alina Streblyanskaya |
| CITA | Kevin France(ISM), Andrew Youdin, Katharina Jappsen, National fellowships shortlist: M. K. Ryan Joung, offered: Jorge Cuandra |
| CalTech | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura, Daniel Babich, Shin’ichiro Ando, offer made(Moore Prize): Dan Marrone, Klaus Pontoppidan (Hubble) |
| Cambridge, IOA | offer made: John Moustakas (declined) |
| Carnegie | offer made: Jane Rigby (Spitzer), Janice Lee, Jenny Greene, Juna Kollmeier (Carnegie-Princeton, Hubble) |
| U. Catolica (Chile) | Sophia Kahn |
| University of Central Lancashire | shortlist:Andrea Marcolini, Cesar Gonzalez Garcia, Chris Brook, Chris Lintott, Edwin De Donder, Marcel Zemp, Michael MacIntyre, Stephanie Courty, Tobias Kaufmann |
| Chandra Fellowships | Offers made: Carlos Badenes (Rutgers), Jane Rigby (declined), Shane Davis (Institute for Advanced Studies), Jifeng Liu (CfA), Elena Rasia (University of Michigan), Masahiro Tsujimoto (Penn State) |
| University of Chicago | offer: Alessandro Rettura (declined), Dan Marrone (Grainger Fellowship; declined Enrico Fermi Fellowship), KICP: Brant Robertson (Spitzer), Andrew Zentner (NSF), with Gladders: Ben Koester, with Chen: Chris Thom |
| Colgate | shortlist: Eric McKenzie, John O’Meara, Marcos Huerta |
| University of Colorado (JILA) | Jorge Cuadra, Matt van Adelsberg |
| Colorado College (1yr visiting) | |
| Columbia | Marcel Agueros(NSF) |
| Cornell | Chunglee Kim, David Rothstein(NSF) |
| Davis, University of California | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura, offer made: Dale Kocevski |
| DAO | Marla Geha, Thomas Puzia |
| Durham | shortlist (ICC postdoc): Mateusz Ruszkowski (offer made), Dusan Keres, Andrea Maccio, Alessandro Rettura(Astronomy) Kristen Coppin, Neil Crighton |
| ESO | offered: Sergio Martin, Mukremin Kilic, Ezequiel Treister, Blair Conn, Carla Gil, Yuri Bialetski, Itziar de Gregorio Monsalvo, offered: Joerg Dietrich, Silvia Leurini, Thomas Stanke |
| Exeter | offer made: Clare Dobbs, Giuseppe Lodato, Jorge Cuadra (declined) |
| Exeter (w/Harries) | offer made: Scott Gregory (declined) |
| ETH Zurich | Brice Menard (declined), Alessandro Rettura (declined) |
| Fermilab | Jason Steffen (Brinson Fellowship), shortlist (TAG): Andrei Mesinger, Alessandro Rettura; offer made (EAG): Ben Koester (declined), Jeff Kubo |
| University of Florida | offer made: John Moustakas (declined), Alessandro Rettura (declined), Elizabeth Tasker |
| Gemini | offer made: Atsuko Nitta, Etienne Artigau |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | Jingwen Wu (SMA), Sergio Martin (SMA), Thushara Pillai (SMA), Gregory Dobler (with Finkbeiner), Dusan Keres(ITC, offer also made to Marcelo Alvarez),Anil Seth (CfA Fellow), Beth Willman (Clay Fellow), Kevin Covey (Spitzer), Eric Ford (Hubble) |
| University of Hawaii | Olivier Ilbert, Mara Salvato, declined: Mattia Vaccari, Emeric LeFloch (Spitzer) |
| High Altitude Observatory/NCAR | Tamara Rogers (NSF) |
| Hubble Fellowships | Jane Rigby (declined), Niccolo Bucciantini (Berkeley), Jurg Diemand (Santa Cruz), Eric Ford (CfA), Jenny Greene (Princeton), Juna Kollmeier (OCIW), Janice Lee (NOAO), Rachel Mandelbaum (IAS), Nikhil Padmanabhan (LBL), Klaus Pontoppidan (Caltech), Glenn van de Ven (IAS) |
| Iceland | offer made: Melissa Nysewander |
| IAS | Shane Davis (Chandra), Glenn van de Ven (Hubble), Michael Kuhlen, Margaret Pan, Mario Juric, Rachel Mandelbaum (Hubble) |
| Irvine (University of California) | shortlist: Mike Boylan-Kolchin, Tobias Kaufmann |
| Jansky Fellowship | Aeree Chung, Dan Marrone, Juergen Ott, Wei-Hao Wang |
| Jodrell Bank (ANGLES Network Postdoc) | Edward Boyce |
| Johns Hopkins | offer made (ACS) : Alessandro Rettura; offer made (JHU/Goddard/WMAP): David Larson |
| LANL | offer made: Marcelo Alvarez, Mateusz Ruszkowski (Oppenheimer) |
| LBNL | Nikhil Padmanabhan (Hubble) |
| LLNL | offer made: Saurabh Jha (Lawrence Fellowship) |
| LUTH-Meudon Observatory | Pier Stefano Corasaniti |
| KIPAC (Stanford/SLAC) | Masamune Oguri, Andres Escala, Lukasz Stawarz, Marcelo Alvarez |
| Leiden | shortlist made: Alessandro Rettura |
| Maryland CTC Fellowship | Tamara Bogdanovic |
| McGill | offer made: Laurie Shaw |
| MIT | offer made: Jenny Greene (declined, Pappalardo fellowship) |
| MMT | shortlist: Matthew Muterspaugh |
| MPA | Ben Metcalf, Friedrich Kupka, Sergei Sazonov, Cecilia Scannapieco, Mateusz Ruszkowski, James Bolton |
| MPE | Guido Risaliti (interviewed) |
| MPIA | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura, Andrea Maccio, offer made: Peter Johansson, Andrea Leistra, Tobias Kaufmann (declined), Dusan Keres (declined) |
| MPG/AEI | offer made: Bruno Giacomazzo, Nils Dorband |
| Munich University Observatory | offer made (computational astrophysics): Peter Johansson, Andrea Leistra |
| MSSL | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura |
| NOAO | Simon Schuler, Janice Lee (Hubble) |
| Northwestern | Marc van der Sluys, Stefan Umbreit, Soko Matsumura |
| Nottingham | offer made: John Moustakas (declined), Alessandro Rettura (declined), shortlist: S. Toft, Hugh Crowl |
| NSF Fellowships | Chris Groppi (U. Arizona), Peter Frinchaboy (UW-Madison), Marcel Agueros (Columbia/AMNH), DeWayne Halfen (U. Arizona/Steward), Thomas Renbarger (UCSD), Tamara Rogers (High Altitude Observatory/NCAR), David Rothstein (Cornell), Kurtis Williams (UT Austin), Andrew Zentner (U. Chicago/KICP) |
| NYU | shortlist: Anil Seth, John Moustakas, Andrew Zentner (declined CCPP) |
| Ohio State | Mandeep Gill (CCAP Postdoctoral Fellows), Eduardo Rozo (Physics),Mukremin Kilic (Columbus Prize Fellowship) |
| Oxford | shortlist: Alessandro Rettura, offer made: Antonio Pipino (with Thomas), Kate Land, Chris Gordon (BIPAC fellow) |
| PPARC | Zoe Leinhardt (DAMPT-Cambridge), Alexander Blustin (UCL-MSSL) |
| Penn State | Zdenka Misanovic, Rob Gibson |
| University of Pennsylvania | Alessandro Rettura (declined) |
| Perimeter | offer made: Kate Land |
| Princeton | offer made (Lyman Spitzer): Michael Kuhlen, offer made (PCTP):Kate Land, offer made: Alessandro Rettura (declined), M. K. Ryan Joung, Jenny Greene (Hubble) |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (w/Figer) | Andrea Leistra (declined), Ben Davies, Qingfeng Zhu |
| University of Rochester | Joachim Moortgat |
| St. Andrews | Alexander Scholz (SUPA Advanced Fellowship) |
| San Diego (UCSD) | Thomas Renbarger(NSF) |
| Santa Barbara (University of California) | Raphael Gavazzi (with Treu), declined (KITP): Juna Kollmeier, Andrew Zentner, Michael Kuhlen,Phil Marshall (TABASGO) |
| Santa Cruz (University of California) | Jurg Diemand (Hubble) |
| Spitzer Fellowships | Jonathan Fortney (NASA Ames), Jane Rigby (Carnegie), Kevin Covey (CfA), Emeric Le Floc’h (U. Hawaii), Brant Robertson (U Chicago) |
| STSci | offered: Beth Willman, Kate Brand, ESA astronomer short list: Norbert Pirzkal, Thomas Puzia |
| SLAC | Saurabh Jha (Panofsky) |
| University College London (UCL) | offer made: Laurie Shaw, Dugan Witherick, Sophia Khan, Estelle Bayet, Gert Huetsi, Lisa Voigt |
| University of Texas at Austin | Anna Frebel, Kurtis Williams(NSF) |
| University of Toronto | Kevin Bundy (Reinhardt) |
| University of Washington | shortlist: Chris Brook, Daisuke Kawata, Dusan Keres, Marcel Zemp, Tobias Kaufmann |
| UW-Madison | Peter Frinchaboy (NSF) |
| Yale | shortlist: Pier-Stefano Corasaniti, Mukremin Kilic, Janice Lee, Kyoung-Soo Lee |
| Zurich, Inst. Theor. Physics | Elena D’Onghia, Ioannis Sideris, Michela Mapelli |
Tenure or Tenure Track Faculty/Permanent positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| Arizona State University | shortlist (founding director SESE):John Grunsfeld, Kip Hodges, Paul Davies |
| University of Arizona | shortlist (PSPL): Tamara Rogers |
| Barcelona | offer made (Full Professor): Licia Verde & Raul Jimenez |
| Berkeley (University of California) | shortlist (Astronomy): Alberto Bolatto, Emanuele Daddi, Geoffrey Bower, Jeff Newman, Joseph Hennawi, Miguel Morales, Pieter van Dokkum, Tommaso Treu, shortlist (Physics): Miguel Morales, Risa Wechsler, Elena Pierpaoli, Uros Seljak (offer made, has not been declined, other rumors notwithstanding), Olivier Dore |
| Bonn | shortlist (full professor): Daniel Thomas, Eva Grebel, Helmut Jerjen, Jochen Eisloeffel, Markus Kissler-Patig, Stefan Wagner |
| University of British Columbia | shortlist (Planetary Science): Jonathan Fortney (declined), Zoe Leinhardt (declined), Travis Barman, Andrew Youdin, shortlist (Astroparticle): Kris Sigurdson |
| Buffalo | shortlist: Risa Wechsler, Chris Gordon, Elena Pierpaoli, Pier-Stefano Corasaniti, Levon Pogosian, Damien Easson |
| Cambridge | Anthony Challinor (IoA-DAMTP position), (IoA): Scott Chapman |
| U Catolica (Chile) | offer made: Eric Gawiser, Nelson Padilla |
| University of Chicago | shortlist: Masao Sako, Miguel Morales, Todd Thompson, Maxim Lyutikov, Sebastian Heinz, Milos Milosavljevic (no offer made) |
| University of Colorado | shortlist: Ryan Scranton, Davide Lazzati, Jeremy Darling, Marcin Sawicki, Marta Volonteri, Miguel Morales, Milos Milosavljevic |
| Columbia | shortlist: Niayesh Afshordi |
| Davis (University of California) | shortlist: David Wittman, Erin Sheldon, Brice Menard, Doug Clowe, Ryan Scranton |
| University of Denver | shortlist: Alon Retter, Miguel Morales, Nader Haghighipour |
| Dickinson College (US) | Catrina Hamilton |
| Drexel | offer made: Eric Gawiser (declined), Gordon Richards |
| Exeter | shortlist: Marc Audard, Jenny Patience, Suzanne Aigrain |
| Florida Institute of Technology | shortlist: Eric Perlman |
| Florida State | shortlist: Levon Pogosian, Luis Anchordoqui |
| University of Florida | shortlist: Dan Potter, Eric Ford (to start Fall 2007), Jonathan Fortney, Inga Kamp, Scott Gaudi, Ed Thommes |
| Gemini | (see entry in postdoc positions table above for science fellow positions) Assorted science positions combined shortlist: Eric Gawiser, Chad Trujillo, Rodrigo Carrasco, Sandy Leggett. Head of science operations, Gemini South: Michael West. Directorship (shortlist): Doug Simons, Jeremy Mould. Dataflow project scientist: Paul Hirst |
| Geneva Observatory | shortlist: Georges Meynet, Daniel Schaerer |
| George Mason University | shortlist: Kartik Sheth (declined), Karl Gordon, Jessica Rosenberg |
| Georgia State University | shortlist: Peter Tuthill, Sebastien Lepine |
| Goucher College | offer made: Ben Sugerman (short term) |
| Hartwick | shortlist: Ben Sugerman |
| Harvard | shortlist (earth and planetary sciences): Ed Thommes, Jonathan Fortney |
| Haverford | shortlist: Joseph Barranco |
| Heidelberg | shortlist (professorship): Coryn Bailer-Jones, Eva Grebel, Sergei Klioner, Stefan Jordan |
| Hertfordshire | offer made: Rob Ivison |
| Humboldt State | offer made: Charles Hoyle |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | shortlist: Kartik Sheth |
| Indiana University | shortlist: Eric Gawiser, John-David Smith, Rupali Chandar, Karl Gordon, Eric Ford, Katherine Rhode |
| Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | offer made: Aparna Venkatesan |
| Irvine, University of California | shortlist: Margaret Geller, Scott Kenyon |
| Keck | (directorship)Taft Armandroff |
| Keele | shortlist (lectureship): Albert Kong, Dean McLaughlin, Falk Herwig, Giovanni Carraro, James Reeves, Marc Audard |
| Kiel (Germany) | Wolfgang Duschl |
| University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Ken Nagamine |
| Leicester | Darren Wright (”new blood lecturer), Mike Goad, Nial Tanvir (professorship), Walter Dehnen (professorship offer) |
| LANL | shortlist: Kevork Abazajian, Falk Herwig, Katrin Heitmann, Oleg Gnedin, Phil Arras |
| Lowell Observatory | shortlist: Scott Gaudi, Henry Roe, Travis Barman |
| UCLA | shortlist: Aaron Evans, Emanuele Daddi, Eric Perlman, Eric Gawiser, Sarah Gallagher |
| Madrid (UAM) | offer made (Chair/Full Professor): Licia Verde & Raul Jimenez |
| University of Maryland | Kev Abazajian |
| U Mass, Amherst | shortlist: Daniela Calzetti, Karl Gordon, Mauro Giavalisco, Risa Wechsler, Jeff Newman, Samir Salim, Kim-Vy Tran, Julio Navarro |
| Melbourne | shortlist: Dejan Stojkovic |
| University of Michigan | shortlist (Astronomy): David Pooley, Ken Nagamine, Sebastian Heinz, Evan Scannapieco, Jeff Newman, Jonathan Granot, Sarah Gallagher, Danny Steeghs, Marta Volonteri, Oleg Gnedin, Mateusz Ruszkowski, shortlist (Physics): Dragan Huterer, Risa Wechsler (declined), Ted Baltz |
| MIT | shortlist (EAP): Debra Fischer, Hannah Jang-Condell, Jonathan Fortney, Sara Seager |
| Monash University | Michael J.I. Brown |
| National Institute for Astrophysics (Italy) | offer made: Beate Stelzer, Fabio Finelli, Fabrizio Nicastro, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Manuela Magliocchetti, Massimo Meneghetti, Matteo Viel, Micol Bolzonella, Paola Severgnini, Paolo Romano, Raffaella Schneider, Sara Lucatello, Thomas Straus, Yazan Al Momany |
| NYU | shortlist: Andrew Zentner, Andrew MacFadyen, Dragan Huterer, Elena Pierpaoli, Risa Wechsler, Niayesh Afshordi |
| Ohio University | offer made: Saurabh Jha, Douglas Clowe |
| Ohio State | offer made: Scott Gaudi |
| Penn State | shortlist: shortlist: Scott Gaudi, Risa Wechsler (declined), Elena Pierpaoli (declined), Eric Ford (declined) |
| University of Pennsylvania | shortlist: Scott Gaudi, Marla Geha, Joseph Hennawi, Jeff Newman, Masao Sako |
| Pomona College | shortlist: Ben Sugerman, Kartik Sheth, Philip Choi |
| University of Portland | shortlist: Jennifer Hoffman |
| Potsdam University | offer made (professorship): Philipp Richter |
| University of Pittsburgh | shortlist: Andrew Zentner, Elena Pierpaoli, Milos Milosavljevic, Risa Wechsler, Evan Scannapieco, Kevork Abazajian, Ryan Scranton |
| Portsmouth (ICG) | offer made: Licia Verde & Raul Jimenez, David Bacon |
| Princeton University | shortlist: Joe Hennawi, Todd Thompson, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Roman Rafikov (starting 2007) |
| Purdue University | Mateusz Ruszkowski, Maxim Lyutikov (theory), Sebastian Heinz (offer made), John Peterson (astroparticle) |
| Riverside, University of California | Eric Gawiser (offer made) |
| Rutgers | shortlist: Andrew Zentner (declined), Risa Wechsler, Scott Gaudi (declined), Elena Pierpaoli, Eric Gawiser (starting Fall 2007), Milos Milosavljevic, Saurabh Jha, Sean Carroll, Sebastian Heinz, Daniela Calzetti, Mauro Giavalisco |
| Saclay | shortlist: Emanuele Daddi, Emeric Le Floc’h, Thomas Reiprich |
| University of San Francisco | shortlist: Andrew Youdin, Ben Sugerman, Jennifer Hoffman, Aparna Venkatesan |
| Santa Cruz, University of California | Bruce Margon (vice chancellor for research & astronomy department) |
| Simon Fraser U | shortlist: Risa Wechsler, Levon Pogosian, Andrei Frolov |
| University of South Carolina | shortlist: Dejan Stojkovic |
| USC | Elena Pierpaoli |
| Stanford and KIPAC | shortlist: Dan Hooper, Risa Wechsler, Milos Milosavljevic, Phil Arras |
| STSci | Margaret Turnbull |
| Stockholm University | Garrelt Mellema |
| Swinburne | Warrick Couch, Chris Blake, Karl Glazebrook, Alister Graham, Michael Murphy |
| East Tennessee State University | shortlist: Dejan Stojkovic |
| University of Texas at Austin | shortlist: Scott Chapman (offer made), Eric Ford, Emanuele Daddi, James Muzerolle, Jenny Greene, Milos Milosavljevic |
| University of Texas at Brownsville | offer made: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
| University of Toledo (US) | shortlist: Karl Gordon, L. Wang, Rupali Chandar |
| Tubingen | shortlist: Kostas Kokkotas, Luis Lehner, Stephan Rosswog |
| UCO/Lick | (directorship) shortlist: Alan Dressler, Chas Beichman, Mike Bolte |
| University of Virginia | shortlist: Ed Thommes, Elena Pierpaoli, Falk Herwig, Jonathan Granot, Milos Milosavljevic, Phil Arras, Risa Wechsler |
| University of Washington | Andy Connolly |
| University of Waterloo | shortlist: Mateusz Ruszkowski, Scott Chapman, Brian McNamara |
| Western Australia | Lister Staveley-Smith, Peter Quinn |
| Western Ontario University | shortlist: Ed Thommes, Els Peeters, Joseph Harrington (declined), Marcin Sawicki, Patrick Espy |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | shortlist: Karl Gordon, Jason Tumlinson, Nathan Smith, Sebastian Heinz, Snezana Stanimirovic, Tony Wong |
| University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse | offer made: Jennifer Hoffman (declined) |
| Zurich | offer made: Kim-Vy Tran, Lucio Mayer, Steen Hansen |
Job rumours from previous years
Previous years: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
Also archived at: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
