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Astrophysics Job Rumour Mill 2007-2008
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Postdoc or term positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| AAS (Bahcall Public Policy Fellowship) | Marcos Huerta |
| AEI Hannover (Observational Relativity and Cosmology) | |
| AEI Potsdam (Astrophysical Relativity) | Steve Drasco |
| Anglo-Australian Observatory | Chris Springob |
| Arecibo Observatory (Postdoc) | Patrick Taylor, Ji-hyun Kang |
| Arecibo Observatory (Research Associate) | Robert Minchin |
| Arizona (Bok Fellowship) | Shortlist includes Alceste Bonanos. Offered to George Becker (declined), Dean Townsley. |
| Arizona (Theory) | Short list includes Iro Tasitsiomi, Diana Valencia, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Alyson Brooks. Offers made to Ian McCarthy (declined), Huirong Yan. |
| Australia Telescope National Facility (Bolton Fellowship) | Offer made, accepted |
| Australia Telescope National Facility (Pulsars) | Michael Keith |
| Australia Telescope National Facility (Galactic Radio Astronomy) | Two offers made, James Green and Dominic Schnitzeler |
| Australian National University, RSAA (w/ McGregor/Dopita) | Offered to Nicola Bennert (declined) |
| Australian National University, Stromlo Fellowship | Chiaki Kobayashi |
| Australian National University (Deputy Australian Gemini Scientist) | Chris Onken |
| Barcelona (ICE) | Shortlist made, including Marco Baldi, Philip Bett, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Sylvan de la Torre, Emiliano Sefusatti, Remco van den Bosch; multiple offers made to: Raul Angulo (declined), Ricardo Demarco (declined), Andrei Mesinger (declined), Beth Reid |
| Basque Country (Bilbao)/Junior positions (w/ Lazkoz, Ibáñez, Feinstein, Senovilla) | Gerold Betschart |
| Berkeley (Radio Astronomy Lab) | Frank Bigiel, Casey Law |
| Berkeley (BCCP) | Offers to Tristan Smith, Jeremy Tinker |
| Berkeley ( Townes Fellowship ) | |
| Berkeley (Miller) | Daniel Baumann (declined), Phil Hopkins, Isamu Matsuyama; rejection notices arriving via snail mail |
| Berkeley ( President's Fellowship ) | Molly Swanson (declined) |
| Berkeley (TAC Fellow) | Short list includes Yuval Birnboim, Greg Novak, Konstantinos Tassis, Ian McCarthy. Offer made to Aristotle Socrates (declined), Ian McCarthy (declined) |
| Berkeley (SKA Development) | |
| Berkeley (w/ Filippenko) | Brad Cenko |
| Berlin (w/ Rauer) | offered to Florian Rodler |
| Bonn (w/ Schneider-Porciani) | Shortlist made, including Sebastiano Cantalupo, Tommaso Giannantonio; offers made to: Stefan Hilbert, Philip Bett , Tommaso Giannantonio, Elizabeth Fernandez (declined), Aaron Ludlow |
| Bonn (w/ Parise) | Interviews during June, including Paul Woods. |
| Brahe fellowship (DARK and UCSC) | Shortlist made, including Justyn Maund. Position filled. Rejection letters sent (2/5) |
| U. of British Columbia | offer made to Neelima Sehgal (declined), Molly Swanson (declined), Elisabetta Valiante, Filiberto Braglia |
| Buffalo (w/ Stojkovic) | De-Chang Dai |
| Caltech (w/ Blake) | Rowin Meijerink |
| Caltech (w/ Bock) | Louis Levenson |
| Caltech (w/ Fadda) | Louise Edwards |
| Caltech (w/ Morris & Van Dyk) | Jon Mauerhan |
| Caltech (w/ Van Dyk) | Nancy Elias-Rosa |
| Caltech ( O.K. Earl Fellowship) | Offer made to Isamu Matsuyama (declined) |
| Caltech ( LIGO) | |
| Caltech ( MOSFIRE) | Nick Konidaris |
| Caltech ( Prize Fellowship, Observational Astronomy) | Short list includes Kuenley Chiu, Jessica Lu (01/05) |
| Caltech ( Prize Fellowship, Experimental Astrophysics) | Rejection notices emailed (02/01) |
| Caltech ( Prize Fellowship, Theory) | Shortlist includes Jorge Cuadra, Bence Kocsis. Offers made to Alyson Brooks, Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Christian Ott. |
| Caltech (IPAC w/ Ramirez) | Offer made to Deokkeun An |
| Cambridge (Kavli) | offers made to George Becker, Ian McCarthy, rejection letters sent (2/11) |
| Cambridge (IoA - X-rays) | offered to Patricia Arevalo (declined) |
| Cambridge (IoA - theory) | shortlist includes Jorge Cuadra, Nickolas Moeckel, Daniel Ceverino, Andrei Mesinger, Camille Bonvin, Sean Matt; offer made to Sebastiano Cantalupo, Kris Beckwith. All positions filled. |
| Cambridge (IoA - gal. evol.) | Shortlist includes Julio Chaname, Steffen Mieske, Elisabete da Cunha; offer made to Jorge Penarrubia, Regina Jorgenson, rejection mails sent. |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington/DTM | offered to Jason Wright (declined), Evgenya Shkolnik |
| Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington | Longlist made including (alphabetical): George Becker, Kuenley Chiu, Alison Coil, Richard Cool, Dawn Erb, Ryan Foley, Jason Kalirai, Adam Kraus, David Law, Steffen Mieske, Ricardo Munoz, Ivan Ramirez, Russell Ryan, Josh Simon, Arjen van der Wel, Jong-Hak Woo (all 12/19). Offer made (1/29) to Josh Simon. |
| Carnegie/Princeton fellowship | Shortlist includes Jason Kalirai; Offer made to Richard Cool (deferred) |
| Carnegie (w/ Mulchaey) | Some interviews conducted at AAS meeting, including Amalia Hicks, Helene Flohic; Offer made to Ivelina Momcheva |
| Carnegie (FourStar) | Offer made to Erin Smith (declined) |
| Carnegie Mellon (McWilliams Fellowship in Cosmology ) | Shortlist made, some candidates invited for interviews, including Shirley Ho, Michael Kesden |
| Central Lancashire (w/ Gibson) | Chris Brook |
| Central Lancashire (w/ Walsh) | Mike Marsh |
| Central Lancashire (w/ Kurtz) | Offer to Lars Freyhammer (declined), Vladimir Elkin |
| Case Western (w/ Krauss, Starkman and Vachaspati) | |
| U. Catolica (PUC-Chile) | Harold Francke, Maren Hempel, Mariano Dominguez |
| CfA Fellowship | A CfA Fellowship was not awarded in 2008. |
| CfA (w/ Fabbiano) | Some interviews arranged including (alphabetical) Ken Cavagnolo, Helene Flohic, Amalia Hicks, Brandon Kelly, Jim Mullaney, Junfeng Wang, Lisa Winter; offer made to Junfeng Wang |
| CfA (w/ Kim) | Phone interviews being conducted; offer made to Amalia Hicks (declined). |
| CfA - SAO (w/ Geller) | Eduard Westra |
| CfA - LCOGT Fellowship | Offer made to David Sand (Feb. 7) |
| Clay Fellowships | Ryan Foley, Anna Frebel |
| Chandra Fellowship | Ed Cackett (→ Michigan), Orly Gnat (→ Caltech), Prateek Sharma (→ Berkeley), Ezequiel Treister (→ Hawaii), and Norbert Werner (→ Stanford). |
| Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics | Keren Sharon |
| CITA | Marcel Zemp, Randall Cooper (declined), Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Jeremy Tinker (declined), Daniel Ceverino, Chris Cameron, Jens Chluba, Matthew Browning, Robyn Levine. Has anyone seen rejection notices? – Yes. |
| CONSTELLATION Marie Curie Fellowships | 5 positions offered including Ella Hopewell (Palermo), Basmah Riaz (IAC), Davide Elia (Lisboa), Dieter Poelman (St. Andrews), Jim Dale (Prague) |
| Colorado (w/ Shull) | Offers made to Michele Trenti and Elizabeth Fernandez (Feb. 7) |
| Colorado (COS Team) | Short list made (1/23). Four offers made (1/24) including Lisa Winter, Regina Jorgenson (declined), Glenn Kacprzak (declined), Yangsen Yao, Steven Finkelstein (declined) |
| Colorado (w/ Linsky) | Offer made to Lucianne Walkowicz |
| Cornell (w/ Lloyd) | Jason Wright |
| Covington Fellowship NRC-HIA | Shortlist made, some rejection emails sent, offer made to Maik Wolleben, accepted |
| Curtin | Megan Argo |
| Davis (w/ Stanford) | Offer Made; Alessandro Rettura |
| Davis (w/ Wittman) | Russell Ryan |
| Delaware/Bartol | Hasan Yuksel |
| Durham | Shortlist includes Marcel Zemp; offer made to Mark Neyrinck, Michael Schneider |
| Durham (w/ Alexander) | James Mullaney |
| Edinburgh | Shortlist includes Tommaso Giannantonio, Ivelina Momcheva, Marco Baldi, Mark Neyrinck. Some offers made. |
| Edinburgh (UK ATC, w/ Ivison) | Eduardo Ibar |
| EPFL (Lausanne) | Offer made |
| ESO (Chile) | interviews arranged including Ricardo Munoz; all offers made; including Andrea Ahumada, Philippe Delorme, Marc Huertas, Margaret Moerchen, Guillaume Montagnier, Irina Yegorova |
| ESO (E-ELT) | Shortlist made, interviews arranged (18/3). Offered to Ben Davies, Kuenley Chiu, Aybuke Kupcu Yoldas, Daniela Villegas |
| ESA fellowships | Short list made including Elena Orlando, Nico Cappelluti |
| ESO (Garching) | all interviews arranged; all offers made; including Stephane Blondin, Pamela Klaassen, Justyn Maund, Bram Venemans |
| ETH Zurich (Zwicky) | Shortlist includes David Sand, Andrei Mesinger, Jason Kalirai, Iro Tasitsiomi, Konstantinos Tassis, Shirley Ho, Elena Gallo. Two offers made, Iro Tasitsiomi (Feb. 6), Adam Amara |
| ETH Zurich | Shortlist made, includes Amanda Bauer, Steffen Mieske, Ivelina Momcheva; offers made to Ivelina Momcheva (declined), Arjen van der Wel (declined), Benne Holwerda (declined) |
| Exeter | Offer to Jorge Cuadra (declined) |
| Fermilab ( Theoretical Astrophysics) | Shortlist includes Yi Mao. Offers made to Louis Strigari (declined), Savvas Koushiappas, Alberto Vallinotto |
| Fermilab ( Experimental Particle-Astrophysics) | |
| Fermilab (David N. Schramm Fellowship) | Kathryn Zurek |
| FCAD Fellowship | Andrew West (declined), Bethany Cobb (declined) |
| Florida ( w/ Buchler) | Shortlist made. |
| Florida ( w/ Ford) | Offer made(Jan 19th) and accepted. |
| Florida ( w/ Ge) | Offer made. Nathan De Lee |
| Florida ( SDSS-III Planet Survey) | Two offers made, including Florian Rodler |
| Florida ( Star Formation Fellowship) | Shortlist includes Jorge Cuadra (withdrawn), Jessica Lu (withdrawn), Andrea Urban; position filled |
| Florida Tech ( (w/Perlman)) | Offer made to Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo (declined), Offer made to Mihai Cara (accepted) |
| Gemini South | some interviews arranged; including Michelle Edwards, Kuenley Chiu, John Wisniewski, Amanda Bauer, Anne Pellerin. Offers made to John Wisniewski Kuenley Chiu, Michelle Edwards, Anne Pellerin (declined), Millie Maier. |
| Geneva (w/ Audard) | Offer made. |
| Giacconi fellowship (STScI) | Offer made to Jason Kalirai (1/28, declined), Ezequiel Treister (2/5, declined), Alceste Bonanos (2/14), rejection notices sent (1/30) |
| GLAST Fellowship (NASA) | Offers made (1/29); including Nathaniel Butler (→Berkeley), Vasiliki Pavlidou (→Caltech), and Uri Keshet (→Harvard) |
| Goddard (GLAST) | Short list made including Elena Orlando, Tulun Ergin, Ozlem Celik, Sylvain Guiriec, Vlasios Vasileiou |
| Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Fellow | Karen Masters (→ Portsmouth ICG) |
| Harvard ITC Fellowship | Ruth Murray-Clay , Yuval Birnboim, Daniel Baumann, Uri Keshet (GLAST fellowship) |
| Harvard (GRBs/PanSTARRS w/ Berger) | Christina Thoene |
| Harvard (w/ Brickhouse) | Offered to: Scott Gregory (declined) |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (EPOXI Mission with Charbonneau & Holman) | Offers made to Jessie Christiansen, David Weldrake, both accepted. |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA (Exoplanets with Charbonneau) | Offers made to Christopher Burke, Francois Fressin, both accepted. |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem | shortlist includes Daniel Ceverino. Offer made to Elena Rossi |
| Heidelberg (w/ Grebel) | Sarah Martell |
| Heidelberg ITP | Offers made to N. Nunes, L. Schrempp, S. Nurmi |
| Henri Poincare Postdoctoral Fellowships | Diana Valencia, Simona Birindelli |
| Hertfordshire (w/ Brinks) | Shortlist made, interviews arranged |
| HIA ( Plaskett Fellowship) | short list made (1/3), some interviews arranged, including Nicola Bennert, Jason Kalirai, Glenn Kacprzak, Steffen Mieske, Ricardo Munoz, Michele Trenti, David Law, David Sand, Shelley Wright, Karrie Gilbert. Offer made to Alan McConnachie. |
| U. of Hong Kong (evolved stars group) | |
| Hubble Fellowship | Offers made beginning 1/17, including (alphabetical order): George Becker (declined), Kevin Bundy (→ Berkeley), Julio Chaname (→ Carnegie DTM), Richard Cool (→ Princeton), Anna Frebel (declined), Elena Gallo (→ MIT), Suvi Gezari (→ Johns Hopkins), Phil Hopkins (declined), Brandon Kelly (→ SAO), David Law (→ UCLA), Jessica Lu (declined), Andrei Mesinger (→ Princeton), Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Naveen Reddy (→ NOAO), Emily Schaller (→ Hawaii), Anil Seth (declined), Josh Simon (declined), Louis Strigari (→ Stanford), Jong-Hak Woo (→ UCLA). Alternates being notified (1/23); rejection notices sent (1/31) |
| IAC/COROT (w/ Deeg) | Short list made (Jan 29th). Includes Brandon Tingley, Guillem Anglada, Florian Rodler, Katrien Uytterhoeven, Jurgen Fliri, Fernando J. Gutierrez. Offer made (Feb 13th). |
| IAP/SPhT (Paris/France, w/ Bertone and Cirelli) | Fabio Iocco |
| ICTP (Trieste/Italy) | |
| Illinois (w/ Gammie) | offer made, accepted by Monika Moscibrodzka |
| Illinois (w/ Lamb) | offer made to Kris Beckwith (declined) |
| Illinois (w/ Wandelt) | offer made, accepted by Guilhem Lavaux |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Shortlist includes Yuval Birnboim, Richard Cool, Z. Lucas Uhm, Greg Novak, offers made to Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Phil Hopkins (declined), Bence Kocsis |
| Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii (Pan-STARRS Postdoctoral Researcher, 2 positions) | 2 positions open, closing date Aug 31, 2008 |
| Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (short term postdoc) | shortlist made. Offer made to Raul Angulo (declined), Tommaso Giannantonio (declined), Shirley Ho (declined), Hasan Yuksel (declined), Molly Swanson (declined), Simon DeDeo, Jiayu Tang |
| INAF-OATS Fellowship Program (Trieste) | Rejection notices emailed (2/19). |
| INAF-Bologna Observatory (X-ray COSMOS) | Shortlist includes Amalia Corral, Francesco Shankar & Kazushi Iwasawa, offer made to Kazushi Iwasawa |
| INAF-Milano (Brera-IASF, COSMOS) | Shortlist includes Sylvain de la Torre, Niraj Welikala, Elisabetta Majerotto, Preethi Nair, Matthew Francis, Marc Huertas, Daniela Vergani. Offer made to Sylvain de la Torre |
| Irvine (w/ Buote) | Offer made to Helene Flohic |
| Jansky Fellowship | rejection notices emailed (1/11), offers made including: Stuartt Corder (NRAO Charlottesville), Brian Kent (NRAO Charlottesville), Esteban Araya (UNM), Adam Deller (NRAO AOC and UCB) |
| Joint ALMA Observatory | offers made |
| Jena Relativity (w/ Bruegmann) | Shortlist includes Pedro Montero |
| KEK ( Theoretical Cosmophysics) | |
| KIAA (Peking U.) | Herbert Lau, Silvia Kuna Ballero, Jens Chluba (declined), Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo (declined) |
| Kiel (w/ Duschl) | Tobias Illenseer |
| KITP @ Beijing | Offer made to Genya Takeda |
| KITP @ Santa Barbara | Daniel Baumann (declined), Yuval Birnboim (declined), Dimitrios Giannios (declined), Andrei Mesinger (declined), Ian McCarthy (declined), Randall Cooper, Matthew van Adelsberg |
| KTH in Stockholm (GLAST) | Offer made to Daniel Kocevski (declined) |
| LBNL - Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship | Shortlist includes Marcel Zemp (Feb. 9) |
| LBNL - Chamberlain Fellowship | some interviews arranged; including Shirley Ho, Richard Cool; offers made to Richard Cool (declined), Shirley Ho |
| Leicester (X-ray) | Offer made to Patricia Arevalo (declined) |
| Leicester (GRB, w/ Tanvir) | Klaas Wiersema |
| Leuven (B), PACS instrument team) | |
| LLNL - GPI (w/ Macintosh) | Offer made to Justin Crepp |
| LLNL Lawrence Fellowship | Short list made, including Randall Cooper (withdrawn) |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory (cosmology) | Long shortlist includes Michele Trenti, Suman Bhattacharya, Charles Shapiro, Alberto Vallinotto. Offers made and accepted: Adrian Pope, Suman Bhattacharya. |
| Los Angeles, UC (w/ Ghez) | Offered to Brian Cameron (declined; 2/5) |
| Louisiana State University (Computational Sciences/Numerical Relativity) | |
| Louisiana State University (w/ Clayton) | Offer made to Jason Nordhaus (declined), offer made to Joe Gallagher (accepted) |
| Lowell Observatory (w/ Schleicher) | Matthew Knight |
| Lundbeck Junior Research Leader Fellowship (5 years, Denmark) | Three people shortlisted for interviews on March 14’th, including Sune Toft |
| Manchester (SAGE-spec) | Paul Woods |
| Marie Curie Fellowship | Offers made. Including Christian Ott (declined), Johan Richard (→ Durham), Elena Gallo, Mari-Cruz Galvez and Chunglee Kim |
| Marseille (LAM) (w/Kneib,Cuby,Le Fevre) | |
| Marseille (LAM) (w/Deharveng,Milliard,Peroux) | Stephan Frank |
| Marshall +NSSTC (GLAST) | |
| U. of Maryland, College Park (w/ Bolatto) | Nurur Rahman |
| U. of Massachusetts, Amherst | Shortlist made (Feb. 9), including Marcel Zemp |
| McDonald Fellowship (UT Austin) | shortlist of 5 includes Glenn Kacprzak, Suvrath Mahadevan; Offer made to Remco van den Bosch |
| McDonald Observatory (UT Austin) | Nick Konidaris (declined) |
| McDonald Observatory (UT Austin) - Stellar Astrophysics | |
| McGill Fellowship | Offers made to Brian Cameron (declined; 2/5), Amalia Hicks (declined), Zach Medin |
| McMaster (w/ Sills) | Evert Glebbeek |
| McMaster (w/ Burgess) | Shortlist includes Camille Bonvin; Offered to: Scott Watson (declined; 2/8) |
| MPP Munich (MAGIC) | Short list made including Elena Orlando |
| Michigan (X-ray, IR, radio) (w/Miller,Bregman) | Shortlist made, some interviews underway.Mark Reynolds |
| Michigan (w/ Gnedin) | Shortlist includes Daniel Ceverino, Robert Crain, Jorge Cuadra. Offered to Greg Novak (declined 2/10), Marcel Zemp. |
| Michigan (MCTP) | Kenji Kadota (DOE), Scott Watson (Michigan Society of Fellows) |
| Michigan (w/ Huterer) | Offer made, accepted |
| Michigan State (w/ Donahue) | Shortlist made, candidates being contacted for interviews. Shortlist includes Ivelina Momcheva, Amalia Hicks, Neelima Sehgal. Offered to Amalia Hicks |
| Minnesota (w/ Heger/Qian) | Jeremiah Murphey |
| Minnesota (w/ Jones/Woodward) | shortlist includes Michelle Edwards. Offer made |
| Univ. Missouri - Columbia (w/ Speck) | Offer made to Jason Nordhaus (declined). |
| MIT Pappalardo Fellowship | some rejection notices emailed (19-Nov), Interviews held. Offered to Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Daniel Baumann (declined), Mustafa Amin, James Battat |
| MIT (w/ Burgasser) | Andrew West, John Bochanski ; short list includes Angelle Tanner |
| MPA Garching (w/ Asplund) | Several offers made, including Maria Bergemann, Luca Casagrande, Andrea Chiavassa, Fernanda Nieva, Ivan Ramirez, Aldo Serenelli |
| MPA Garching | Over 200 applicants. Several offers made, including Raul Angulo, Luca Casagrande, Jens Chluba (2-year extension, declined), Shirley Ho (declined), Ian McCarthy (declined), Ben Metcalf (2-year extension), Andrei Mesinger (declined), Liubin Pan (declined), Ivan Ramirez, Stuart Sim (2-year extension), Iro Tasitsiomi (declined). All positions now filled. |
| MPA Garching (joint with SHAO) | offers made to Patricia Arevalo, Jorge Cuadra, Greg Novak (declined 2/10) |
| MPA Garching (w/ Roepke) | Ivo Seitenzahl |
| MPE Garching (NIR instrumentation) | 4 interviews held; including Michelle Edwards. Offer made to Michelle Edwards (declined) |
| MPIA Heidelberg (w/ Henning) | Arjan Bik |
| MPIA Heidelberg (w/ Jahnke) | offer made and accepted |
| MPIA Heidelberg (Galaxies and Cosmology) | shortlist includes Arjen van der Wel. Offers made (Feb. 8), including Ricardo Munoz (declined), Ivelina Momcheva (declined), Karrie Gilbert (declined), Arjen van der Wel |
| MPIA Heidelberg (w/ Klahr) | |
| MPI Munich | Hasan Yuksel |
| MSSL (GRB) | Offer made: Klaas Wiersema (declined) |
| MSSL (Swift-UVOT, XMM-OM) | Some interviews held on April 14, Peter Curran |
| NASA NPP Fellowship (Nov. 1st 2007, deadline) | offers made (1/28), including Sarah Robinson (declined), Emily Schaller (declined), Darren Croton (→ JPL, declined), Konstantinos Tassis (→ JPL), Erin Smith (→ Goddard), Amber Straughn (→ Goddard), Amalia Hicks (declined), Laurent Pueyo (→ JPL), Andrea Urban (→ JPL), John Debes (→ Goddard) |
| NASA NPP Fellowship (March 1st 2008, deadline) | Art Congdon (→JPL), Eric Jullo (→JPL), rejection noticed e-mailed (May 30th) |
| Niels Bohr Institute (2x 5-year Assistant Professorships | interviews to be held in early 2008, final decision by mid April. Shortlist made. Christian Ott (deferred to 2009) |
| New South Wales (w/ Tinney) | Robert Wittenmyer |
| NRL (NRC Associateship, Aug 1 deadline) | Jacob Hartman |
| NSF Fellowship | offers made (1/23), including George Becker (declined), Alyson Brooks (declined), Bethany Cobb (→ Berkeley), David Lai (→ UCSC), Jessica Lu (declined), Makenzie Lystrup (→ Boulder), Karin Menendez-Delmestre (→ Carnegie Observatories), Stephen Muchovej (→ Caltech), Jeremiah Murphy (→ U. Washington), Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Brian O’Shea (declined), Emily Schaller (declined), Neelima Sehgal (declined), Jeremy Tinker (declined), John Wisniewski (→ U. Washington); some rejection emails sent (1/24); final rejections sent (2/13) |
| NSF International Fellowship | Molly Swanson (→UCL) |
| NSSTC-UAH (w/ Bonamente) | Short list has been made, including Kenneth Cavagnolo, Junfeng Wang. |
| NORDITA | Alexander Hubbard |
| North Carolina (w/ Kannappan) | some long-list candidates interviewed at AAS including Kim Herrmann, Paola Rodriguez, David Law, Ivelina Momcheva, Glenn Kacprzak, Niraj Welikala – short list made. Offer made. Mark Norris |
| Notre Dame (w/ Balsara) | |
| Nottingham (w/Conselice) | short list made, including Ivelina Momcheva, Amanda Bauer, Ana Matkovic, Ruth Grutzbauch |
| Nottingham | |
| Ohio State (CCAPP Fellowships) | Offers made: Raul Angulo, Sarah Hansen, Joel Hartman, Vasiliki Pavlidou (5-year), Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Konstantinos Tassis, David Sand, Haojing Yan (5-year), Michael Stamatikos, Carsten Rott |
| Oslo | Shortlist includes Cyril Pitrou and Tommaso Giannantonio, offers made to Shirley Ho (declined), Tommaso Giannantonio (declined) |
| Oxford (theory and cosmology) | Offer made and accepted. |
| Penn (w/ Jain and Devlin) | offer to Neelima Sehgal (declined), Marcos Lima |
| Penn (w/ Devlin) | offer to Bradley Johnson (declined), Tony Mroczkowski |
| Penn State (w/ Brandt) | emails sent to potential candidates, including Patricia Arevalo, Amalia Hicks; offer made to Yongquan Xue |
| Penn State (w/ Charlton) | offer made to Glenn Kacprzak (declined); offer made to Paola Rodriguez Hidalgo |
| Penn State (Gravitational Waves) | Offer made to Bence Kocsis (declined), shortlist for second position includes Jorge Cuadra, Christian Ott, Kris Beckwith; Ruxandra Bondarescu; search completed |
| Penn State (w/ Pavlov) | offer made and accepted |
| Perimeter Institute | Offers made; Daniel Baumann (5yr. senior post-doc; declined), Louis Strigari (declined), John Giblin, Tom Zlosnik |
| Planck fellowships (US) | Shortlist includes Tommaso Giannantonio |
| Portsmouth (Observational Cosmology, multiple positions) | Shortlist includes Raul Angulo, Molly Swanson. Offer made to Raul Angulo (declined), Molly Swanson |
| Portsmouth (Theoretical Cosmology) | Offer made to Charles Shapiro (Feb. 7) |
| Princeton University (Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Theory) | Shortlist includes Camille Bonvin, offers made to Ruth Murray-Clay (declined), Yuval Birnboim (declined), Dimitrios Giannios |
| Princeton University (Henry Norris Russell, Observational) | Shortlist includes Jason Kalirai, Daniel Apai, Alison Coil, Richard Cool; Offer made to Jason Kalirai |
| Princeton University (Astronomical Software Scientist) | |
| Princeton University (Southern Cosmology Survey) | Beth Reid (joint with Barcelona) |
| Princeton University (CMB Analysis) | Sudeep Das |
| Princeton University (Extrasolar Planets and Brown Dwarf Theory) | shortlist includes Sarah Robinson; David Spiegel |
| Princeton University (Supernova Theory) | Jason Nordhaus |
| Princeton University (Council on Science & Technology) | Greg Novak |
| RAS Sir Norman Lockyer Fellowship | Mark Swinbank |
| RAVE (Strasbourg, w/Bienayme) | Offer made to Sarah Martell (declined), Ivan Minchev |
| Rice (w/ Hartigan) | Shortlist made including Jason Nordhaus, Junfeng Wang |
| Riverside, UC (w/ Wilson) | Ricardo Demarco (SpARCS) |
| Riverside, UC (w/Canalizo) | Offer made and accepted |
| Riverside, UC (w/ Mobasher) | Nimish Hathi |
| Riverside, UC Chancellor's Fellowship | Offer made and accepted |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| Rutgers (w/ Jha) | Offer made and accepted |
| Saclay (w/ Arnaud) | Short list made including Amalia Hicks. |
| Saclay, SAp ( w/ Refregier) | Short List made. Jiayu Tang, Laura Marian. |
| Saclay, SPhT | Camille Bonvin |
| San Francisco State Univ. (exoplanets w/ Fischer) | |
| Santa Barbara, UC (w/ Treu) | short list made (12/12), including Nicola Bennert, Shirley Ho, Ben Dobke, Xinyu Dai, Brendon Brewer, David Law, Shelley Wright, Eran Ofek, Dominique Sluse. Offers made to E. Ofek, David Law (declined), Nicola Bennert, Matthew Auger. |
| Santa Barbara, UC (w/ Martin) | Shortlist made (2/17) |
| Santa Barbara, UC (w/ Peale) | Genya Takeda |
| Santa Cruz, UC (w/ Bernstein) | Sarah Hansen |
| Santa Cruz, UC (w/ DEEP Project) | Offer made to Arjen van der Wel (declined). Position filled. |
| Santa Cruz, UC (PISGM fellow) | Short list made (1/29). Position filled. |
| Seoul National University, CEOU | Offers made |
| SISSA (APP sector) | Offers made to Jun-Qing Xia, Iro Tasitsiomi (declined), Dimitrios Giannios (declined), Kris Beckwith (declined). Shortlist includes Christian Ott. Some rejection emails sent. |
| Southampton (relativity) | Shortlist made, offer made to Kris Beckwith (declined) |
| Spitzer fellowship program | offers made, including Sarah Robinson (→ Michelson Science Ctr), Kevin Bundy, Mukremin Kilic (→ SAO), Elise Furlan (→ JPL), Dawn Erb (→ UCSB), Thomas Robitaille (→ Harvard); rejection letters sent 1/18 |
| St Andrews | some interviews arranged; including Nicola Bennert, Jorge Cuadra, Basmah Riaz, Simon DeDeo, Nick Moeckel, David Spiegel. Offered to Jorge Cuadra (declined), Nicola Bennert (declined), Evgenya Shkolnik (declined) |
| St. Mary’s (Star Formation) | shortlist includes Junfeng Wang. Offer made to Andrea Urban (declined), Larry Morgan |
| Stanford/SLAC (LSST) | Jack Singal |
| Stanford/SLAC KIPAC Fellowships | Offers made to Bradley Johnson (declined), Neelima Sehgal, Konstantinos Tassis. Some rejection emails sent (1/16) |
| Stanford/SLAC KIPAC GLAST Fellowships | Shortlist made, Nat Butler, Daniel Kocevski, Jeff Filippini, Elena Orlando, Marco Ajello and Vlasios Vasileiou. Offer made to Daniel Kocevski (Feb. 7) |
| STFC Advanced Fellowship, UK | shortlist made, including Clive Dickinson, Ian McCarthy, Elmar Koerding, Marc Sarzi. Offers made. Clive Dickinson (→ Manchester). Liang Gao (→ Durham), Nate Bastian (→ Cambridge), Barbara Ercolano (→ UCL), Marc Sarzi (→ Hertfordshire). Reserves contacted. |
| STFC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, UK | Shortlist made (1/18), including Jorge Cuadra, Molly Swanson, Camille Bonvin, Tommaso Giannantonio, Thomas Zlosnik, Nick Dunstone; there will be no interviews this year. Rejection letters sent. Offers made: Kristen Coppin (→ Durham), Sijme-Jan Paardekooper (→ Cambridge), Molly Swanson (declined), Jorge Cuadra (declined), Camille Bonvin (declined). Reserves contacted. |
| Stockholm Observatory (Observational Cosmology) | Shortlist made, includes Ricardo Demarco and Erik Zackrisson |
| Stockholm Observatory (supernovae) | Shortlist made, includes Andrea Pastorello, Daniel Sauer |
| Stockholm University, Physics dept. | Shortlist includes Tommaso Giannantonio; offer made to Camille Bonvin (declined) |
| Strasbourg (w/ Motch) | Offer made |
| STScI - Johns Hopkins (Davis fellowship) | Offer made to David Sand, shortlist includes Iro Tasitsiomi, Michele Trenti, Masanori Nakamura; Offer accepted by Masanori Nakamura (Feb. 14) |
| STScI (w/ Chen) | Marty Bitner |
| STScI (w/ Gordon) | Brandon Lawton, Martha Boyer |
| STScI (w/ Meixner) | Offer made to Margaret Moerchen (declined) |
| Swinburne (w/ Blake) | Short list made, including Raul Angulo, Marcel Zemp. Robert Crain |
| Swinburne (w/ Couch) | Matt Owers. |
| Swinburne (w/ Murphy) | Short list made, including Nicola Bennert, Glenn Kacprzak, Christina Thöne, Regina Jorgenson : offer made (1/24) to Glenn Kacprzak |
| Sydney (Harry Messel Research Fellowship) | Offer made, Alan McConnachie |
| Sydney (University Fellowship) | Greg Madsen |
| Sydney (w/ Bland-Hawthorn) | Short list made, including Molly Swanson, Amanda Bauer. Offered to Alyson Brooks (declined), Greg Novak (declined 2/10), Torgny Karlsson |
| Syracuse U (gravitational wave group) | Andrew Lundgren |
| U. of Texas, Austin | Shortlist includes Marcel Zemp (declined), Sebastiano Cantalupo, Raul Angulo, Jorge Moreno, Yi Mao; offer made to Yi Mao |
| U. of Texas, Austin (w/ Wheeler) | offer made to Jozsef Vinko |
| Taipei NTU/LeCosPa | Offer made to Yi Mao (declined), LeCosPA Distinguished Assistant Fellow offer made to Je-An Gu |
| Texas (w/ Evans) | Joel Green |
| Texas A&M (w/Macri) | Anne Pellerin |
| Texas A&M (w/ Papovich) | Steven Finkelstein |
| Toronto (Reinhardt Fellowship) | ~175 applicants. Short list made. Offer accepted (2/11) |
| Toronto (w/ Matzner) | Shortlist includes Jorge Cuadra (withdrawn), Andrea Urban |
| U. de Chile | Francisco Forster, Paul Jones , James Jenkins , Avril Day-Jones |
| Uppsala University (researcher position, funded for 3+3 years by Swedish National Space Board) | Ulrike Heiter |
| Vanderbilt (w/ Berlind) | Short list made, including Raul Angulo, Jorge Moreno, Mark Neyrinck. offer made to Cameron McBride |
| Veni Fellowship (NWO, Netherlands) | Atakan Gurkan (→ Amsterdam/Leiden), Jason Hessels (→ ASTRON), Dave Russell (→ Amsterdam) |
| Victoria (w/ Vandenberg) | Aaron Dotter as a CITA National Fellow |
| Virginia (APOGEE project) | interviews scheduled; including Nick Konidaris. Offered to Nick Konidaris (declined) |
| Virginia (InGaAs project) | offer made to Erin Smith (declined) |
| U. of Virginia (w/ Johnson) | Amanda Kepley |
| U. of Virginia (w/ Sarazin) | Both offers accepted, including Ming Sun, Gregory Sivakoff |
| Washington (w/ Dalcanton) | Shortlist includes Anne Pellerin, Benne Holwerda, Will Clarkson, Karrie Gilbert, Nathan de Lee, Iskren Georgiev, Iraklis Konstantopoulos, Naseem Rangwala. Some rejection letters sent (2/14) offer made to Karrie Gilbert |
| Washington (w/ Morales) | Candidates interviewed during January; Shortlist includes Steven Finkelstein, Matthew Sharp, Peter Hyland |
| Waterloo (w/ McNamara) | Ken Cavagnolo |
| Waterloo (CITA National Fellow) | Offers made to Ian McCarthy (declined), Greg Novak (declined 2/10) |
| West Virginia (w/ Lorimer) | |
| Wisconsin (w/ Savage) | Anand Narayanan |
| Yale (w/ Geha) | Short list made. Ricardo Munoz |
| University of Zurich (ITP) | Multiple positions, Shortlist made, including Robert Crain, K. Tassis, Michele Trenti, Molly Swanson, Micheal Kesden, offer made to Konstantinos Tassis, Greg Novak (declined 2/10). Some rejection emails sent (02/11). |
Tenure or Tenure Track Faculty/Permanent positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| Univ. of Alabama (Astroparticle) | Short List made (Feb. 7), including Rupak Mahapatra, Dawn Williams. Offer made to Rupak Mahapatra |
| Alberta (Observational Astrophysics) | Shortlist includes Jason Kalirai, Andisheh Mahdavi. Offer made. |
| Alberta (Experimental Astroparticle) | Shortlist includes Rupak Mahapatra |
| Alberta (CRC Tier 2 Chair) | Natalia Ivanova |
| Anglo Australian Observatory ( Head of AAT Science) | Shortlist includes Gerhardt Meurer, Mark Lacy, Andrew Hopkins; interviews starting Aug 11. Offer made. Andrew Hopkins |
| Arizona (2006-07 search) | Josh Eisner |
| Arizona (current search) | Letters of recommendation solicited (1/31), shortlist includes Inese Ivans, Jason Tumlinson, Yancy Shirley, Brant Robertson, Fabian Heitsch, Eric Bell, James Bullock (2/13). Offer made to Yancy Shirley (accepted). |
| Arizona State University | Lawrence Krauss (faculty shuffle from Case Western) |
| Arizona State University (SESE Engineering for Scientific Exploration) | Chris Groppi (accepted 6/13). |
| ASTRON (Dwingeloo) | Offers made to Joeri van Leeuwen, David Kaplan. June 2008: Marijke Haverkorn, Jason Hessels. |
| ATNF | Shortlist: Tyler Bourke, Shami Chatterjee, Marijke Haverkorn, Nissim Kanekar; Interviews completed. Offer made and accepted. |
| Ball State | Phone interviews being arranged (4 December), short list made and campus interviews being arranged (16 January) including Peter Allen, Ted von Hippel (withdrew): Offer made to Peter Allen Feb. 8th, declined March 13th. |
| TU Berlin (W3-professor) | offer made and accepted, Dieter Breitschwerdt. |
| Barcelona | Pavlos Protopapas |
| Bonn (W2) | Cristiano Porciani |
| Bonn (W3) | Shortlist of 4 made, external references solicited, offer made to Norbert Langer |
| Borough Manhattan Comm. College, City University of New York, BMCC | BMCC, a diverse Community College (part of CUNY) in TriBeCa in downtown Manhattan, is hiring a tenure track Astronomer to teach Introductory Astronomy. Join a small group of astronomers & should enjoy teaching. Official job ad in link. For further details contact bmckernan AT amnh.org |
| Brigham Young University | Victor Megenes |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Offer made to Erin Sheldon |
| Brown University | Shortlist made (Feb. 8), including Adam Lidz, Savvas Koushiappas, Daisuke Nagai, Michael Kesden. Offer made to Daisuke Nagai, declined; offer made to Savvas Koushiappas. |
| U Calgary (Centre for Radio Astronomy) | shortlist made. Offer made and accepted, Jeroen Stil (U. of Calgary Postdoc). |
| California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | |
| California State University, Northridge | campus interviews being arranged, including Ted von Hippel (withdrew), Matthew Muterspaugh (13 February) |
| Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics | ongoing, 2007-2009 |
| Cambridge (Professorship of Experimental Astrophysics) | Offer made: Declined |
| Cambridge (Jacksonian Professorship) | James Stirling |
| Cardiff University (Chair for Theoretical Physics) | offer to Pavel Kroupa: declined |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Up to 5 positions in Cosmology as part of McWilliams Center) | may make multiple junior offers or possible senior offer; short list includes Adam Lidz, Rachel Mandelbaum, Francesco Miniati, Daisuke Nagai; at least two senior offers out; junior offer out to Daisuke Nagai (declined), Rachel Mandelbaum |
| Carnegie Observatories (Staff Astronomer positions) | Shortlist made (Feb. 11), including Alison Coil, Dawn Erb, Josh Simon, Jason Kalirai, Eric Bell, Joe Hennawi. Offer made to Juna Kollmeier |
| CITA | shortlist made. Some rejection letters sent (3/19). Luis Lehner and Harald Pfeiffer invited for interviews (5/15) |
| Case Western (junior faculty position in particle-astrophysics/cosmology theory group | Short list includes Niayesh Afshordi, Sergei Dubovsky, Constantinos Skordis, Alexander Vikman |
| Catholic University of America (observational cosmology) | deadline 7/15/08, offer made, accepted, rejections sent out 8/5/08 |
| Chicago (junior faculty position non-cosmological theory preference) | Some interviews arranged (1/29), including Natalia Ivanova, Yoram Lithwick, Dmitri Uzdensky, Philip Chang, Avery Broderick. Some rejection letters sent (3/19). Offer made to Yoram Lithwick (3/27), Dean declines to approve offer |
| Colgate University (astronomy tenure-line assistant professor level) | Phone interviews scheduled including Yancy Shirley, Michael Stage,Jeff Bary, Rob Gutermuth, Sarah Higdon,John Wisniewski, Michael Wood-Vasey, Arielle Phillips, Daniel McIntosh, Nate McCrady, Ryan Hickox. Shortlist includes Sarah Higdon, Andrew West, John Wisniewski. Some rejection letters sent. Offer made: Andrew West (declined) Sarah Higdon (declined), Jeff Bary |
| College of Charleston (tenure-track Astrophysics) | Long Shortlist made, including Jeff Bary, Eric Mamajek, Robert Fisher, Bart Willems. Three candidates invited for interviews (others remain active); offer made to Richard Townsend (declined), Robert Fisher (declined). Additional interviews being scheduled, including Adrienne Juett. |
| Colorado State University (Physics) | |
| Concepción (Chile) | Ricardo Demarco |
| CNAP (France) | Jérémie Vaubaillon (IMCCE), Chiara Ferrari (Nice), Olivier Ilbert (Marseilles) |
| CNRS (France), research assistants and research directors section 17 | Luc Dessart, Martina Wiedner, Franck Hersant, Frédéric Galliano, Sylvestre Lacour, Eric Buchlin, Marco Delbo, Nicolas André (short list also included Jérôme Pétri, Christophe Le Poncin-Laffite and Olga Alexandrova) |
| CNRS (France), research assistants and research directors section 47 | Tony Banday (research director), and Ed Porter, Deirdre Horan (research assistant). Short list also includes Maximo Ave Pernas, Oleksii Boiarskyi, Romain Gouaty, Zakaria Meliani, Emmanuel Moulin (research assistant) |
| CTIO Director | shortlist of two: Pat Knezek, Chris Smith |
| Depaul University (Department of Physics) | 115 Applicants, first cut made to forty candidates, long shortlist of ten candidates phone interviewed in January included Michael Stage. Position filled, rejection letters sent (3/19). |
| DRAO (SKA scientist) | internal candidates being considered, external interviews being scheduled (2/29), including Robert Minchin, D.J. Pisano. Offer made D.J. Pisano (declined 4/30); Matthew Lister (declined 6/6) |
| EPFL Laussanne | offer made to Peter Schneider(declined) |
| ESA (JWST NIRSpec instrument scientist) | offer made to Sune Toft (declined), Stefania Carpano (accepted) |
| ESO (ALMA Commissioning Scientists, Chile) | Robert Lucas, Rainer Mauersberger |
| ESO (User Support Astronomer) | Shortlist includes Arjan Bik, Davor Krajnovic, Gwendolyn Meeus, Steffen Mieske, Bodo Ziegler, Claudio Melo |
| ESO (User Support Astronomer, April 2008) | Shortlist made |
| ESO (Instrument Scientist - optical) | Shortlist made, Suzie Ramsay |
| ESO (Operations Staff Astronomer - Wide Field Imaging) | Shortlist made, including Matias Gomez, Yazan Momany, Steffen Mieske. |
| ESO (ALMA Regional Centre Astronomers Garching) | Interviews conducted, including Melanie Krips, Tyler Bourke, Silvia Leurini; offers made, including Melanie Krips (declined), Andy Biggs |
| ESO (ARC Scientist Garching) | Interviews conducted, offer made to Eelco van Kampen |
| ESO (Operations Staff Astronomer - Interferometry) | offer made to Antoine Merand |
| Exeter (Lecturer/Associate Professor) | short list made (02/22) including Tyler Bourke, Derek Homeier, Stanimir Metchev, Frederic Pont, Aleks Scholz, Daniel Zucker; interviews held March 14 & 31. offer made, alternates notified |
| Fermilab (Astrophysics Head) | Craig Hogan |
| Freiburg U (W3-professor, KIS co-directorship) | Svetlana Berdyugina |
| Goddard Space Flight Center - Exoplanets (Division 660) | Long shortlist made, phone interviews scheduled including John Carr, John Debes, David Golimowski, Hannah Jang-Condell, Eric Mamajek, Brian Patten, Aki Roberge, Jason Steffen. Offer made to Aki Roberge (02/08). |
| Goddard Space Flight Center - Solar System Exploration Division (690) | |
| Gemini South | Shortlist: Jason Kalirai. Offer made to Jason Kalirai (02/10), declined. |
| Geneva Observatory (Associate Professor, Formation and evolution of stars and galaxies) | Short list made, 4 candidates: David Bersier, Jean-Paul Kneib, Stephane Paltani, Daniel Schaerer |
| Geneva Observatory (MER) | Laurent Eyer |
| George Mason University | Shortlist made (1/30): Jason Barnes (declined offer), David O’Brien (declined offer), David Brain, Nader Haghighipour |
| Georgia | scheduling campus interviews (1/31) including Yancy Shirley, Stanimir Metchev, Ted von Hippel. Offer made to Inseok Song (03/21). |
| Georgia State | (stellar)Letters of recommendation solicited, some campus interviews scheduled (Feb. 9) including Eric Mamajek. Offer made to Russel White (faculty shuffle from UAHuntsville) |
| Georgia Tech, School of Physics | multiple positions, apply before November 30, 2007; Candidates invited for interviews, including Bart Willems, Ignacio Taboada, David Ballantyne, Aldo Serenelli, Tom Maccarone. Offer made to David Ballantyne, Ignacio Taboada (accepted). Senior positions to D. Shoemaker and P. Laguna (faculty shuffle from Penn State). All positions filled, rejection e-mails sent (4/24). |
| Goettingen (Full Professorship - W3, Astrophysical Cosmology) | short list made including Thomas Reiprich, Alexander Konopelko, Offer made to Sabine Schindler |
| Granada (IRAM station manager) | Carsten Kramer |
| Hamline University (Physics) | |
| Harvard (Physics/Astronomy) | offered to John Kovac |
| Harvard | Shortlist made (Feb. 8): Alison Coil, Dawn Erb, Anna Frebel, Jane Rigby; offer made to Alison Coil (declined) |
| Haverford College (astronomy tenure-line assistant professor level) | Short list is Nicola Bennert, Karen Masters, Richard Townsend, Elizabeth Wehner, Beth Willman; 85 applicants. Beth Willman (3/4). Some rejection letters sent (3/20). |
| Heidelberg (W3-professor) | Norbert Christlieb (2/18) |
| Heidelberg (W3-professorship in cosmology) | deadline (7/15) |
| Hobart & William Smith Colleges (tenure-track astronomy or astrophysics) | Candidates invited for interview, including Richard Townsend, Amalia Hicks (withdrew); offer made to Richard Townsend (3/3), inviting additional applications to position (3/23); new round of campus interviews, including Brenda Frye; offer made to Brenda Frye (4/25), declined |
| Hofstra University | Candidates invited for interviews, including Richard Townsend, Sebastien Lepine. Offer made to Richard Townsend (declined). Some rejection emails sent (5/8). |
| U. of Hong Kong (IR/Submm) | |
| IAP ( Int. chair in theoretical cosmology ) | Deadline 07/25 |
| U of Idaho | Candidates being invited to interview including Yancy Shirley, Adrienne Juett, Jason Barnes, Ted von Hippel (withdrew) |
| Imperial (Lectureships in Astrophysics) | Shortlist: David Ballantyne, Subhanjoy Mohanty, Daniel Mortlock, Antony Lewis, Roberto Trotta and five others; Three offers made: Chris Conselice (declined), Subhanjoy Mohanty, Roberto Trotta |
| ING (Support Astronomer) | Offer made: Klaas Wiersema (declined) |
| JPL (Senior Scientist in Cosmology) | Shortlist includes Oliver Doré |
| Johns Hopkins University | Shortlist of three made (Feb. 20), including Jason Kalirai. offer to Juna Kollmeier (declined) |
| Kansas (Tenure track Extra-Galactic Observer) | shortlist of four includes Daniel McIntosh (withdrew), D. Andrew Howell, Gregory Rudnick; offer made to D. Andrew Howell (declined), Greg Rudnick (accepted 4/14) |
| KIAA (Peking U, faculty recruitment) | Li-Xin Li, Qingjuan Yu |
| Kiel (W2 professorship) | Rainer Schoedel (declined); Sebastian Wolf |
| Koeln/Cologne (W2 professorship) | Short list created including Peter Schilke, Silke Britzen, Henrik Beuther, Jes Joergensen |
| Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) | Shortlist includes Alceste Bonanos, D. Andrew Howell, Michael Wood-Vasey |
| Leiden | Henk Hoekstra (leaving UVic), Jarle Brinchmann |
| Loyola University (Physics) | Medium-list made, phone interviews being scheduled (Feb. 4), including Amalia Hicks |
| Macquarie University (Level C/D) | Offer made and accepted |
| Macquarie University + AAO (Astrophotonics Level C/D) | Offer made and accepted |
| Macquarie University + AAO (Level B) | Offer made and accepted |
| Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Director) | Martin Asplund |
| Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics (X-ray group director) | |
| Max Planck Junior Group Leader | Offers made, Sadegh Khochfar, Juna Kollmeier (declined) |
| Michigan Astronomy (Extragalactic) | Shortlist made (1/4), including Josh Simon, Dawn Erb, Alison Coil, Christy Tremonti, Eric Bell. Offer made to Eric Bell |
| Michigan State University (Lyman Briggs College) | Shortlist of 5 candidates made, including Brian O’Shea and Arielle Phillips; Offer made to Brian O’Shea (Feb. 7); Offer accepted by Brian O’Shea (Feb. 8) |
| Middle Tennessee State University | phone interviews have begun; including Daniel McIntosh, Jeff Bary |
| U. of Missouri - Kansas City | some candidates invited for phone interviews, including Bart Willems; some campus interviews scheduled (1/23), including Daniel McIntosh; offers made to Richard Townsend (declined), Daniel McIntosh (accepted 4/4) |
| MIT | short list made (1/8), includes Aristotle Socrates, Iro Tasitsiomi, Jason Tumlinson, Adam Lidz, Nadia Zakamska. Some rejection letters sent. |
| Munich (Professorship, W3 tenured: Theoretical Cosmology and Structure Formation) | shortlist made, including Karl Gebhardt, Luigi Guzzo, Eiichiro Komatsu, Eric Linder, Joseph Mohr, Volker Springel |
| Munich (Professorship, W2 tenured: Observational Astrophysics) | shortlist made, short shortlist made |
| Munich (Professorship, W2 tenure-track: Observational Cosmology) | short shortlist of two made: Jochen Weller and Steffi Phleps, Offer made: Jochen Weller |
| Munich (Professorship, W2 tenure-track: Galaxy Evolution and Chemical Enrichment) | shortlist made, including Klaus Dolag, Thorsten Naab, Ilian Iliev, Gabriella de Lucia, Sadegh Khochfar, short shortlist of three made: Cristina Chiappini, Sadegh Khochfar, Thorsten Naab |
| NASA Goddard (Scientist position in exoplanets) | This job is already listed above under Goddard Space Flight Center. |
| National Science Foundation (Program Directors) | Jeffrey Pier and Donald Terndrup |
| US Naval Academy | Offer made in first round of hiring: Christopher Morgan; Second round of hiring: Requests for letters of recommendation made (29-November) |
| New Mexico Tech | on campus interviews completed. Shortlist: Steven Gibson, David Meier, Gerhardt Meurer, Massimo Marengo. Offer accepted by David Meier. |
| Niels Bohr Institute (Associate Professorship, Observational Astrophysics) | |
| NOAO North | requests for reference letters sent out |
| NOAO South | requests for reference letters sent out |
| NOAO Director | David Silva, starting July 7th |
| North Carolina State University | Some rejection letters sent (3/31). Davide Lazzati (Feb. 19th) |
| Northern Arizona University | Scheduling phone interviews (Feb. 9), including Yancy Shirley, David Trilling, Michelle Edwards, Matthew Kenworthy, Nate McCrady, Daniel McIntosh, Eric Mamajek; on-campus interviews complete (Mar. 7), shortlist includes Eric Mamajek, Nate McCrady, Yancy Shirley; Offer made to Yancy Shirley (declined). Offer made to Nate McCrady (declined, April 7). Offer made to Eric Mamajek (declined). Offer made to David Trilling |
| NRAO (tenure track scientist) | Some rejection emails sent out, short list made including D.J. Pisano (Feb. 2), Tyler Bourke, Larry Morgan, Jin Koda; search cancelled for budget reasons. |
| NRAO (Green Bank Focal Plane array scientist) | Candidates invited for site interview, including Robert Minchin |
| NAASC CSV scientist | Offer accepted by Anthony Remijan (Mar 25) |
| NRAO (ALMA commissioning scientist) | Short list being considered. Offer made to Antonio Hales |
| NUI Maynooth (Lecturer in mathematical physics) | |
| Open U. (Lectureship in Physics) | Short list includes: Andrew Ball, Judith Croston, Sam Eden, Stewart Eyres, James Hague, Paul Hatherly |
| U. Oslo (Cosmology) | Short list: Hans Kristian Eriksen, David F. Mota, Hakon Dahle, Margrethe Wold .Offered to Hans Kristian Eriksen, David F. Mota |
| Oxford (Lectureship in Theoretical Astrophysics) | Short list includes Tony Bell, Fabian Heitsch, Francesco Miniati, Juri Poutanen, Alexander Schekochihin; rejection letters sent (5/21); offer made to Alexander Schekochihin |
| Oxford (Royal Society Professor) | Richard Ellis (faculty shuffle from Caltech) |
| Oxford | Short list made, Eric Bell, Matt Jarvis, Ben Metcalf, Masami Ouchi, Christian Wolf, Andy Bunker (Readership - faculty shuffle from Anglo-Australian Observatory) |
| Peking University | Eric Peng |
| U.Penn | Shortlist includes: Niayesh Afshordi, Darren Croton, Adam Lidz, Yoram Lithwick, Daisuke Nagai |
| Penn State (department wide search) | Shortlist includes: Scott Watson |
| Perimeter Institute (junior cosmology opening) | Short list includes: Niayesh Afshordi, Latham Boyle, Sergei Dubovsky |
| Perimeter Institute (director) | offer made to Neil Turok and accepted |
| University of Pittsburgh (two positions in theoretical and observational cosmology) | Short list includes Amalia Hicks, Savvas Koushiappas, Daisuke Nagai, Michael Wood-Vasey, Erin Sheldon, Grant Wilson, Zheng Zheng, Rachel Mandelbaum; offers made to Daisuke Nagai (declined), Michael Wood-Vasey, Rachel Mandelbaum (declined), Savvas Koushiappas (declined) |
| Pisa SNS (Full Professor) | Short list made, includes Andrea Ferrara, Alessandro Melchiorri, Offer made to Andrea Ferrara |
| Potsdam (AIP, Head of ‘Stellar Physics’ program) | Short list made, includes Piercarlo Bonifacio, Svetlana Hubrig, Andreas Korn, Thomas Preibisch. Offer made to Svetlana Hubrig and accepted |
| Potsdam (AIP, Head of ‘Galactic archeaology’ program) | Norbert Christlieb (contract cancelled; see Heidelberg W3 professorship). New search started; interviews being conducted |
| Potsdam (AIP, W2-Professor ‘Observational Cosmology’) | Short list made; Bodo Ziegler, Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben, Christian Wolf, Thomas Reiprich, Lutz Wisotzki |
| Potsdam (DESY-Zeuthen, W3-Professor ‘Astroparticle Physics’) | shortlist includes Thomas Janka, Martin Pohl |
| Princeton (Astro) | Adam Burrows (faculty shuffle from Arizona) |
| PUC (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) - Faculty | |
| Queen’s University, Belfast (Lecturer/Reader in Exoplanets) | June 2008: shortlist decided, rejects informed. Shortlist includes Peter Allen, Dimitris Stamatellos, Aleks Scholz. Phone interviews being conducted, including Peter Allen. Interviews conducted (2/7) |
| Ramon y Cajal (Spain) | Details. 28 eligible, 8 in reserve. First 10: Schwetz Mangold , Guimera Manrique , Diemand , Senghi Soares , Rodriguez Pinilla, Singh , Lobo Checa , Dubin , Ness , Casarejos; Nanda Rea (→ CSIC-ICE) |
| University of Rochester | Short list includes James Muzerolle, Eric Mamajek, Lori Allen, Aki Roberge (withdrew), Stanimir Metchev, Offer Made: Eric Mamajek (accepted 4/28) |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | offer to Michele Valisneri, Badri Krishnan, John Whelan |
| Rutgers (Endowed Chair) | |
| San Diego State University | Search cancelled due to budget cuts (3/26) |
| San Francisco State University | Shortlist made? Colloquium list includes potential candidates? Adam Bolton, Alison Coil, Andisheh Mahdavi, Thomas Puzia. Some rejection letters sent (3/14). Offer made: Andisheh Mahdavi |
| Siena College | Short list includes Daniel McIntosh, Jeff Bary, Sebastien Lepine, Ted von Hippel |
| Sheffield (RC-UK Academic Fellowship) | Shortlist includes: Holger Baumgardt, Lisa Hall, Stuart Littlefair |
| SISSA | Some rejection emails sent (5/15). |
| Space Telescope Science Institute | Rachel Somerville |
| Space Telescope Science Institute (new search) | Shortlist includes Jason Kalirai, Eric Mamajek, Yun Wang, Beth Willman, Remi Soummer, Jason Tumlinson, John Debes, Rachel Osten, Mary Beth Kaiser, James Muzerolle. Rejection letters sent (03/27). Offers made to Jason Kalirai, James Muzerolle, Rachel Osten, Remi Soummer, Jason Tumlinson. |
| Space Telescope Science Institute, ESA Astronomers | Shortlist includes Ilaria Pascucci, Daniel Apai, Rob Olling; offer to Daniel Apai, Danny Lennon, Elena Sabbi |
| Space Telescope Science Institute (SM4 Term Scientist) | Offer made to Parviz Ghavamian,John Debes(declined), Aparna Maybhate |
| SRON, Utrecht | Shortlist made: Elisa Costantini, Fabrizio Nicastro, Brian McNamara, Gabriel Pratt, Thomas Reiprich, Yangsen Yao. Offer made to Brian McNamara; offer declined, Elisa Costantini |
| St. Mary's College of Maryland (tenure-track) | Phone interviews completed (2/5). Offered to Neal Miller (declined). |
| Stockholm University, Physics Dept. (observational cosmology) | Shortlist includes: Natalia Kuznetsova (Connolly), Tomas Dahlen, Edvard Mörtsell |
| Stony Brook University, (tenure-track observational galactic/extra-galactic star formation) | Shortlist includes Ilaria Pascucci (01/04), Scott Schnee, Jin Koda, Stanimir Metchev (01/04), Aki Roberge (01/04), Greg Herczeg (01/04), James Muzerolle (01/04). Offer made to Aki Roberge (declined 03/06). Offers made to Stanimir Metchev and Jin Koda (04/04) |
| Swinburne | Shortlist includes: Darren Croton, Emma Ryan-Weber. Offer made to Darren Croton, Emma Ryan-Weber |
| Syracuse University (Theoretical Cosmology Opening) | Shortlist includes Niayesh Afshordi, Michael Kesden |
| Tennessee State | Shortlist for telephone (25 January) and campus (13 February) interviews made; Matthew Muterspaugh (offer 27 March, accepted 7 April) |
| Texas A&M | Kim-Vy Tran (hired in 2007); Short List includes Rupak Mahapatra. Offer made to Rupak Mahapatra |
| U Texas at Austin (tenure track in astronomy) | Short list includes Yoram Lithwick, Michael Muno, Klaus Pontoppidan, Seth Redfield, Sarah Robinson (02/02). Offered to Sarah Robinson, Seth Redfield(declined) |
| UBC | James Dunlop, faculty shuffle, from Edinburgh |
| University of California (Office of President) | Steve Beckwith (faculty shuffle from STScI to UC VP-Research) |
| UC Berkeley & LBL | Uros Seljak |
| UCLA | Alice Shapley (faculty shuffle from Princeton) |
| UCLA (Planetary Science) | Some rejection letters sent, 5/23, Offer made |
| UCSB (experimental astrophysics) | Interviews ongoing. Short list includes Nat Butler, Benjamin Monreal. Offer made to Matt Bradford(declined). Offer made to Ben Mazin. |
| UCSD | shortlist of 10, including Alison Coil, Dawn Erb, Elena Gallo, Chris Groppi, Michael Muno, offers made to Alison Coil |
| U. of Iceland (readership) | Palli Jakobsson |
| University of Iowa (Astrophysics Instrumentation) | Shortlist includes Peter Bloser, Abe Falcone, Jason Koglin, Randy McEntaffer, offer made to Randy McEntaffer |
| University of Iowa (Plasma Theory) | Shortlist includes Fatima Ebrahimi, Gregory Howes, Chung-Sang Ng, Paolo Ricci, Sorin Zaharia, offer made to Gregory Howes |
| U of Hawaii at Hilo (Assistant Professor) | Phone interviews underway, including Daniel McIntosh, Roy Gal, Marianne Takamiya; Short list notified (3/24), Offer made and accepted (4/23) |
| U of Hawaii at Hilo (Observatory Director) | Short list includes David James, Scott Fisher. Offer made to Scott Fisher (declined, 5/3). Offer made to David James |
| U of Massachussetts, Amherst | shortlist includes Frank van den Bosch, Alexandra Pope |
| U of Massachussetts, Dartmouth | Long shortlist made, including Robert Fisher, Brenda Frye, Wynn Ho. Telephone interviews completed, beginning to schedule campus interviews (3/14), including Robert Fisher, Brenda Frye. Campus interviews completed; offers made to Brenda Frye (4/24), Robert Fisher |
| University of Miami | Short list includes: Bradley Johnson, Kevin Huffenberger, Elena Gallo. Offered to Kevin Huffenberger (accepted 5/1). |
| University of New Hampshire (Physics/IAM) | Short list of 6 includes Robert Fisher, Gregory Howes, Jonathan Dursi (1/23), Paolo Ricci, Kai Germaschewski, Merav Opher. Campus interviews completed, offer made and (unofficially) accepted. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today (5/16) that a hiring freeze on new faculty and staff has been instituted at UNH, which may impact this hire. |
| University of North Texas | Campus interviews scheduled, including Ohad Shemmer, Bart Willems. Offered to Ohad Shemmer (4/7) |
| U Sussex (cosmology lectureship) | short list made including Chris Gordon, Ilian Iliev, Martin Kunz, Carlos Martins, Pia Mukherjee, offer to Martin Kunz |
| University of Toronto, Scarborough (Planetary Science) | Search for 2 positions cancelled by Dean after Chair Don Cormack arbitrarily dropped some candidates from the short list; Appeal to Provost’s office |
| University of Utah (Astronomy/Astrophysics Faculty) | Short list includes Ilaria Pascucci, Daniel Apai, David Kaplan, Dawn Erb, Alison Coil (withdrew), Christy Tremonti, Niayesh Afshordi, Ghazal Geshnizjani |
| University of Valparaíso, Chile (CAV) | Offer made to Davide Lazzati (declined), new offer made to Steffen Mieske (declined) |
| University of Victoria | Faculty Shuffle: Julio Navarro returns; Shortlist include Falk Herwig and Sung-Chul Yoon. Offer made to Falk Herwig. |
| University of Wien/Vienna (Professorship in Stellar Astrophysics)deadline 9/30 | |
| University of Wien/Vienna (Professorship in Satellite and Experimental Astronomy) | Interviews (May) with Marc Audard, Henrik Beuther, Ulrike Heiter, Martin Groenewegen, Manuel Güdel, Gerhardt Meurer, and Bodo Ziegler. Shortlist of 3 made in June: Henrik Beuther, Martin Groenewegen, Manuel Güdel |
| University of Wien/Vienna (Professorship in Gravitational Physics) | deadline (9/30) |
| University of Wien/Vienna (Professorship in Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe) | deadline (9/30) |
| Utah State University (Gravitational Wave Astro) | Shane Larson |
| Washington University, St Louis, USA. Theoretical astro/particle physics (tenure-track assistant professor). Deadline 1 Dec 2007 | shortlist made, includes Savvas Koushiappas, Francesc Ferrer; offer made to Francesc Ferrer |
| Washington State (Junior) | (2/11) Interview list includes: Andy Boden, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Adrienne Juett, Daniel McIntosh (withdrew), Elisha Polomski, Thomas Puzia, Ted von Hippel (withdrew). Offer made to Thomas Puzia (declined), Andy Boden (declined). Search abandoned. |
| Weber State | Jorge Moreno |
| Wesleyan | 108 Applicants. Shortlist made, including Eric Mamajek, Beth Willman, Michael Wood-Vasey, Alison Coil, Seth Redfield. Some rejection letters sent (1/30). Offer made: Beth Willman (declined), Seth Redfield. |
| West Virginia | Short shortlist made for campus interviews: Karen Masters, D.J. Pisano, Tony Remijan, Yancy Shirley. 64 applicants, some rejection letters sent. Offer made (2/14) to Yancy Shirley (joint appointment w/ NRAO) (declined), D.J. Pisano (joint appointment with NRAO) (4/28) |
| Western Washington | Shortlist made, including Nate McCrady (12/7), John Wisniewski, Ken Rines, Erin Hicks. Offer made to Ken Rines (3/4). |
| Wisconsin-Madison | Initial screening expected 2/1/08 ~200 applications, long shortlist of ~20 made. Beginning to schedule campus interviews (1/25), including Yancy Shirley, Jason Kalirai, Jason Harris, Richard Townsend, Josh Simon, Christy Tremonti. Offers made to Rich Townsend, Yancy Shirley (declined), Christy Tremonti |
| WIYN Director | Pierre Martin, starting on September 22 |
| Wyoming | Tim Slater (faculty shuffle from Arizona) |
| Yale | Shortlist made, including Bradley Johnson, Toby Marriage, Ben Mazin, Daisuke Nagai, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Erin Sheldon; offer made and accepted Daisuke Nagai |
| Zurich (ETH, Professor of Solar Physics) | Shortlist made, offer made to Sami Solanki (declined) |
| Zurich (ETH, Professor of Star- and Planet- Formation) | Junior candidates invited to a mini-symposium; senior candidates to be interviewed individually; shortlist includes Daniel Apai, Isabelle Baraffe, Henrik Beuther, Cornelius Dullemont, Mark McCaughrean, Michael Meyer, Jonathan Tan; offer made to Michael Meyer |
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