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Astrophysics Job Rumour Mill 2008-2009
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Postdoc or term positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| U of Alabama Huntsville / NASA MSFC Fellowship (High Energy) (ad) | Shortlist includes: Marios Chatzikos, Nazirah Jetha |
| U of Arkansas at Little Rock (w/Seigar) (ad) | Patrick Treuthardt |
| U of Arkansas at Fayetteville (w/Kennefick) (ad) | Joel Berrier |
| U of Alberta (stellar group, fellowship opportunities and positions with Ivanova, Heinke) (ad1,ad2) | Marc van der Sluys (CITA NF with Ivanova). All positions filled. |
| AEI Potsdam (http://numrel.aei.mpg.de) | Shortlist made for first position; includes C. Cattoen, I. Vega, B. Wardell (Jan 5). Offered to I. Vega (Jan 14) |
| Amsterdam (w/ de Koter)(ad) | Hugues Sana |
| Amsterdam (w/ Markoff)(ad) | Shortlist made including Rodrigo Nemmen (withdrawn), C. Cabanac, rejection notifications sent. Offer made: Rich Plotkin |
| Amsterdam (w/ Wijnands)(ad) | Rejections letters sent. Offer made. |
| AMNH (fellowship: ad1, exoplanets: ad2) | short list chosen for fellowship, rejections notified, offer made to Wladimir Lyra. Offer made for exoplanets to Emily Rice/Rejection notices sent(Apr 14). |
| Anglo-Australian Observatory Research Fellow (ad) | Shortlist includes: Kristin Woodley, Danilo Marchesini, offer made and accepted |
| Anglo-Australian Observatory Magellan Fellows (ad) | Shortlist made and interviews scheduled including Duy Nguyen (withdrawn). Offer made: Igor Chilingarian |
| APC and IAP, Paris, France (SDSS-III/BOSS, ad) | Shortlist includes: Cristiano Sabiu (withdrawn) |
| APC and LPT, Paris, France (CMB), ad | Position canceled due to growing funding constrains |
| Arecibo Observatory | Julia Deneva |
| Arizona (Extragalactic and Cosmology, w/Fan, ad) | Offer made and accepted to? |
| Arizona/Steward Observatory (w/ Egami ad1 (LoCuSS)) | Offer made and accepted |
| Arizona/Steward Observatory (w/ Egami ad2 (Lensing)) | Offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe (declined) |
| Arizona/Steward Observatory (w/ Egami ad3 (Lockman Hole)) | |
| Arizona State University (several prize postdocs) | Shortlist includes: Eric Greenwood, Lado Samushia, Devdeep Sarkar, Offer to Steve Berukoff (declined) |
| ACADEMIA SINICA OF TAIWAN (ASIAA) | David Tsang (declined), Tsz Yan Lam (declined), Federica Bianco (declined) |
| ASTRON | shortlist made (Nov. 26) |
| ASTRON (Support Scientist, ad) | Offer made to Alyson Ford (declined) |
| Barcelona (Observational Cosmology) | |
| Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics Fellowship (ad) | Offer made to Sudeep Das |
| Berkeley Center for Integrative Planetary Science Fellowship | Rejection notices sent (2/3) |
| Berkeley Exoplanets (w/ Marcy) | Rejection letters sent (2/20) |
| Berkeley Miller Fellowship | Heather Knutson, Genevieve Graves |
| Berkeley TAC Fellowship | Shortlist made, including Oliver Hahn (withdrawn), John Wise, Tobias Heinemann. Offered to Matt McQuinn (with Einstein Fellowship + 1 year TAC fellowship), Hagai Perets (declined), Mario Juric (declined); rejections notified (1/20-1/22) |
| Berkeley Townes Fellowship | Offered to Aaron Parsons(honorary, → UC Berkeley) |
| Berkeley (w/ Backer) | Offer made: Julia Deneva (declined) |
| Berkeley (w/ Lee) | Daniel Swetz |
| Berkeley (w/ Quataert) | Tobias Heinemann |
| Berlin (TUB, Computational Astrophysics, w/ Breitschwerdt ad) | |
| Berlin (TUB, Theory and Modeling, w/ Breitschwerdt ad) | |
| Bolton Fellowship | Offered to Shea Brown |
| Bonn (AIfA, ALMA ads) | offers made |
| Bonn (AIfA, w/Vlemmings ad) | offers made |
| Bonn (Argelander Fellowships) | Shortlist made, Hilding Neilson (Feb 25), Thibaut Decressin, Enrique Moreno-Mendez, Shazrene Mohamed |
| Bonn (5-year, w/Langer) | Offers made: Jonathan Braithwaite |
| Boston University (w/Jackson ad) | Jonathan Foster |
| Boston University (w/Marscher) | |
| Brookhaven (cosmology) | Zhaoming Ma |
| Brown University (theoretical astrophysics ad) | Jacqueline Chen |
| Calar Alto Legacy Survey | |
| Calgary (w/ Stil ad) | Offer made: Shea Brown (declined) |
| Caltech Keck Institute for Space Sciences (KISS) Fellowships | Offer Made: Douglas Spolyar (Declined) |
| Caltech Prize Fellowships (theoretical) | Offers made (Dec. 19): Hagai Perets (declined), David Tsang |
| Caltech Moore Fellowships (cosmology) | Offers made (Dec 19): Matt McQuinn (declined), Fabian Schmidt, Daniel Swetz |
| Caltech Prize Fellowships (experimental) | Offer to (Feb 2): Mark Ammons (declined) |
| Caltech CARMA Fellowship | Rejection emails sent |
| Caltech (w/Blain) | Offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe (declined) |
| Caltech (COSMOS, w/Scoville, Capak, & Yan) | Offer made and accepted |
| Caltech (w/Ellis) | Rejections notified (Feb 5) |
| Caltech (Planck, w/Helou or Reach ad,ad) | 1 offer made |
| Caltech (w/Hillenbrand) | Offer made and accepted |
| Caltech (IPAC, w/Frayer) | |
| Caltech (SSC, w/Armus, Appleton, & Helou) | Offer made: Pedro Beirao |
| Caltech (SSC, w/Chary) | Offer made |
| Caltech (SSC, w/Ogle & Appleton) | Offer made to P. Guillard and accepted |
| Caltech (SSC, w/Sheth & S4G team) ad | |
| Caltech (SSC, w/Teplitz) | |
| Caltech (CAMERA) | Reed Riddle |
| Cambridge IoA, CASU | 2 offers made |
| Cambridge IoA, Galaxy Formation and Evolution | Offer: Manda Banerji, Sergey Koposov |
| Cambridge IoA, Theoretical Astronomy | One offer made |
| Cambridge Kavli | 1 offer made and accepted |
| Cape Town | Offer: Cristiano Sabiu |
| Cardiff (w/ Coles) | Shortlist made and interviews scheduled: Jussi Valiviita (application withdrawn), Neil Bevis (withdrawn), Dipak Munshi, David Sutton, Jostein Riiser Kristiansen, Paniez Paykari, Rockhee Sung |
| Carnegie DTM Astronomy/Astrobiology | Guillem Anglada-Escude, Cullen Blake(declined). Offers made (Jan. 13) |
| Carnegie Observatories Fellowships | Interviews scheduled, including Cullen Blake, Julia Comerford, Catherine Espaillat, Robert Feldmann (withdrawn), Evan Kirby, Heather Knutson, Jose Prieto, Danilo Marchesini, Jennifer Donley, Yong Shi, Jonathan Trump, Yujin Yang, Genevieve Graves, Moire Prescott, Jeff Cooke. TJ Cox, Jane Rigby |
| Carnegie Observatories (w/Freedman) | Vicky Scowcroft |
| Carnegie-Princeton Fellowship | Jose Prieto |
| Carnegie Mellon McWilliams Fellowships | short list chosen (Nov. 25) including Adam Brown, Sudeep Das, Gregory Dobler, Marilena LoVerde, Katherine Mack, Devdeep Sarkar, Cecilia Scannapieco, Yuki Watanabe, John Wise. Offers made (Dec. 30): Gregory Dobler (declined), Sudeep Das (declined), Katherine Mack (declined), Aravind Natarajan, Daniel Whalen |
| Carnegie Mellon Petascale Cosmology Fellow | |
| CEA Saclay (senior postdoc in stellar fluid dynamics) | Offer made to Jon Braithwaite |
| CEA Saclay (junior postdoc in stellar fluid dynamics) | Rejection emails sent on 6 Feb |
| CEA Saclay (cosmology/lensing) | Offer made (Feb. 12) to Adrienne Leonard, Shaun Thomas, Ronnie Jansson |
| CEA Saclay (galaxy formation and evolution) (w/Daddi & Elbaz) | interviews scheduled. Short list includes Brad Warren, Alison Crocker. Offer made. |
| Central Lancashire (Open; 1yr) (ad) | Shortlist for 1-yr appointment made, including Cesario Almeida, James Cresswell, Mark Rushton, Rory Smith, Paul Westoby; Offer made to Mark Rushton; accepted |
| Central Lancashire (Education & Outreach Officer; 2yr) (ad) | Shortlist made, including Adrienne Leonard (withdrawn), Nicholas Rattenbury, Georgina Wilkins |
| Central Lancashire (Jeremiah Horrocks Fellow; 5yr) (ad) | Two offers made to Francesco Calura, Greg Stinson; accepted |
| Central Lancashire (Galaxy Evolution/Dust; 3yr) (ad) | Shortlist made, including Jacopo Fritz, Andrew Schurer, Dimitrij Semionov; Offer made to Dimitrij Semionov; accepted |
| Universidad de Chile | James Jenkins, Francisco Forster, Paul Jones |
| CfA Fellowship | long shortlist includes: Hagai Perets, Mark Ammons; offers made to: Hagai Perets (Dec. 19), Mark Ammons (Dec. 24, declined); rejections notified (1/9), final rejections notified (3/2) |
| Chicago Kavli (KICP) | Rejections notified (Jan. 12); Offer made to Oliver Hahn (declined) |
| CITA Postdoctoral Fellowships (ad) | Shortlist made, offers made to Marcelo Alvarez, Sudeep Das (declined), Adrienne Erickcek (joint with PI), Abdul Mroue, Mario Juric (declined), Matt McQuinn (declined), Brian Metzger (declined), Hagai Perets (declined), Fabian Schmidt (declined), Cyril Pitrou (declined), Rajat Mani Thomas, Glenn van de Ven (declined), Amir Hajian, Phil Chang, Hilke Schlichting; (Some Rejections notified by postal mail)(02/11) Caution: CITA is not observing the standard AAS response deadline this year). |
| CITA Senior Research Associates (ad) | |
| CITA National Fellowships (ad) | Offers sent out (12/19): Marc van der Sluys (→ UofA), Elizabeth Tasker (→ McMaster), Glenn van de Ven (declined), Aaron Dutton (→ U. of Victoria) |
| Clay Fellowship | offer made to Jose Prieto (declined); rejections notified (1/9) |
| CNES Postdoctoral Fellowships (France) | Interviews scheduled (Apr. 27); 10-12 positions; decision 26 May, Offer made Anais Rassat. |
| Colorado (ad) | Kris Beckwith |
| Colorado (Herschel Key Projects, several positions) (ad) | Shortlist made, One offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe (declined), Naseem Rangwala |
| Columbia (w/Schiminovich) (ad) | shortlist includes Emily Freeland, Carolyn Atkins, Benjamin Bertincourt. One offer made and accepted, Benjamin Bertincourt. |
| Columbia (w/Putman) (ad) | Josh E.G. Peek, M. Ryan Joung |
| Cornell (w Lloyd) | under consideration: Katelyn Allers, Kevin Covey. offered: Cullen Blake, Nicholas Law (declined); second position to be offered |
| DARK Berkeley (Tycho Brahe Fellowship) | shortlist made, including: Robert Feldmann (withdrawn); offer made, accepted. |
| DARK Fellowship, Niels Bohr Institute, (w/ Toft) (ad) | Shortlist made, including: Moire Prescott. Offer made to Moire Prescott (declined), offer made and accepted |
| Dunlap Fellowship (Toronto) | offers made (Jan. 11), including Nicholas Law, Jose Prieto (declined), Anne-Marie Weijmans |
| Durham (ad) | Shortlist incl. Manda Banerji (withdrawn), Stephen Wilkins, Cristian Saez. Offers made to Andreas Pawlik (declined), Qi Guo, Gabriel Altay |
| Durham (w/ Roberts and Done) | Offer made and accepted |
| East Tennessee (w/ Ignace) | Tabetha Hole |
| Einstein Fellowships | Shortlist made; 10 offers made (Jan. 15), wait list notified (Jan. 22), rejection letters sent via snail mail (postmarked Jan. 22), official list announced (Feb. 25): Tamara Bogdanovic (→ Maryland), Rodrigo Fernandez (→ IAS), Ryan Hickox (declined), Bence Kocsis (→ Harvard), Bret Lehmer (→ JHU), Dan Marrone (declined), Matt McQuinn (→ Berkeley), Brian Metzger (→ Princeton), Eran Ofek (→ Caltech), Eduardo Rozo (→Chicago), Kevin Schawinski (→ Yale), Aurora Simionescu (→ Stanford). |
| EPSRC Advanced Fellowships | Shortlist includes: Vishnu Jejjala (with Edinburgh) |
| ESA Fellowship | Offers made (Jan. 27), including Morten Andersen |
| ESO Fellowship (Garching) | shortlist including Iskren Georgiev, Kalliopi Dasyra, Danilo Marchesini, Jose Prieto, Christopher Thom, Kristin Woodley, Rodrigo Diaz. Rejection Letters sent. Offers made (12/16): Kalliopi Dasyra (declined), Jose Prieto (declined), Kristin Woodley (declined), Danilo Marchesini, Rodolfo Smiljanic, Eric Lagadec. All positions filled. |
| ESO Fellowship (Santiago) | shortlist: Petr Kabath, Danilo Marchesini, Kristin Woodley, Suvrath Mahadevan, Christian Tapken, Jeff Wagg, Magnus Gålfalk. All interviews completed (Dec. 5). Offers made: Danilo Marchesini (declined), Kristin Woodley (declined), Jeff Wagg, Suvrath Mahadevan (declined) (12/16), Dimitri Gadotti, Petr Kabath. All positions filled. |
| ESO ALMA Fellowship (Garching and EU ARC nodes) | letters of rejection sent |
| ESO Hubble Astronomer (Garching) (ad) | Shortlist includes Jaron Kurk (declined). Kim Nilsson (2-yr staff position) |
| ETH Zwicky Prize Fellowships (ad) | Shortlist made (Dec. 29), including Marcelo Alvarez, Gregory Dobler, Thijs Kouwenhoven, Roban Kramer, Katherine Mack, Klaus Pontoppidan, Devdeep Sarkar, Glenn van de Ven, Sean Raymond; offers made: Glenn van de Ven (declined) - two other offers made and accepted, Roban Kramer, Klaus Pontoppidan - all positions filled. |
| ETH Postdocs (Extragalactic&Cosmology) (ad) | Offer: Luke Barnes, Ewan Cameron. Shortlist made incl. Moire Prescott, Emily Freeland, Tim Rawle, Thomas Greif (withdrawn), Jeff Wagg, Gabriel Altay, Igor Chilingarian |
| ETH Postdocs (Star & Planet Formation) | Shortlist made and interviews are underway. Offers made |
| Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics (DES) | Shortilst include Federica Bianco, interviews are underway. Offer made: Federica Bianco |
| Fermilab Astro Theory Group | Offer made to Robert Feldmann, Douglas Spolyar |
| Fermilab Astro Theory Group (Schramm Fellow) | Offer made: Gregory Dobler (declined) |
| U Florida (theoretical) (ad) | Offer made to Matthew Payne |
| U Florida (w/ Ge) (ad) | Offer made to Duy Nguyen |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Several Postdoctoral positions) | Offer made to Ryan Lang (declined), Offer made to Manou Rantsiou (declined), Offer made to Christy Pierce |
| Gemini Science Fellows (Two positions)(ad) | Emails sent Dec 26th state search is back on, but only for one position. Shortlist: Danilo Marchesini |
| Giacconi Fellowship | Shortlist made, including Hagai Perets. Offers: Glenn van de Ven (declined), Jennifer Donley, Rebecca Martin (two positions open this year), rejections notified by email (2/16) |
| Goddard | |
| Goettingen University (ad) | Jose M. Fernandez |
| Guelph (w/ Eric Poisson) | Offer made to Ian Vega (12/31) |
| Harvard Exoplanets (w/ Charbonneau) | Jean-Michel Desert |
| Harvard GRBs/PanSTARRS (w/ Berger) | One position offered and accepted. Shortlist made for second. |
| Harvard ITC Fellowships | Offers made: Mark Vogelsberger, Hagai Perets (with Rothschild & CfA fellowships), Brian Metzger (declined), Mario Juric (with Hubble+1 year ITC fellowship), Bence Kocsis (with Einstein+1 year ITC fellowship), Stella Offner (with NSF fellowship) (rejection notified 2/13) |
| Harvard Menzel Fellowship | offers made (Dec. 24): Karin Oberg; rejections notified (1/9) |
| Harvard Research Associate (w/ Sasselov) | Lisa Kaltenegger |
| Harvard Smithsonian (w/ Lee) ad | Farid Rahoui |
| Harvard Smithsonian, HAT-South Exoplanets (w/Bakos) ad | Kaloyan Penev (accepted), Duy Nguyen (declined) |
| Harvard Smithsonian, High energy astrophysics (w/Elvis) ad | Offer made |
| Harvard Smithsonian, CMEs (w/ Raymond, Korreck, & van Ballegooijen) ad | Nick Murphy |
| Harvard Smithsonian, Star Formation (w/ Muench) | Shortlist includes Matthew Povich (withdrawn) |
| Harvard Society of Fellows | interviews: Genevieve Graves, Adam Brown |
| Harvard MWA (w/ Greenhill) | Offer made: (Mar17) Gianni Berardi (Jan 21) Rajat Mani Thomas (Kapteyn), (Jan 16) Shea Brown (declined) |
| Harvard sciGPU (w/ Greenhill) | Mike Clark |
| Hawaii, sub-mm astronomy ad | Offer made: Stefan Kraus (declined), Jagadheep Pandian |
| Hawaii, (w/ Liu) ad | |
| Hebrew University | Offer made (Jan. 18): Judith Racusin (declined) |
| U of Heidelberg, ITA (w/ Klessen; two positions) | Shortlist made, including Gabriel Altay, Matthew Turk, Jouni Kainulainen (withdrawn), Jose Gracia. Offer made to Matthew Turk (declined) |
| Henri Poincare Fellowships (ad) | Shortlist including Sagar Chakraborty, Peter Hunana, Laurene Jouve, Yuko Kakazu, Stefan Kraus (withdrawn), Jean-Baptiste Lebouquin, Michael Mueller, Donatella Romano |
| Hertfordshire - Galaxy & Magellanic Clouds | Short list made, Brent Miszalski |
| High Altitude Observatory Postdoctoral Fellowships (solar/stellar physics ad) | All offers made: Christian Bethge, Savita Mathur, Laurel Rachmeler, Ilgin Seker, Jia Yue, Gustavo Guerrero (declined) |
| U of Hong Kong (Evolved stars group) | Chih-Hao Hsia |
| Hubble Fellowship | 17 offers made (Jan. 15), including (alphabetical order) Mark Ammons (→ U. Arizona), Misty Bentz (→ UC Irvine), Tabetha Boyajian (→ Georgia State), Kevin Covey (→ Cornell), Kristian Finlator (→ UCSB), Genevieve Graves (declined), Mario Juric (→ Harvard), Evan Kirby (→ Caltech), Heather Knutson (declined), Adam Kraus (→ IfA), Adam Leroy (→ NRAO), Dan Marrone (→ U. Chicago), Matt McQuinn (declined), Brian Metzger (declined), Karin Oberg (→ Smithsonian), Jose Prieto (→ OCIW), Brant Robertson (→ Caltech), Lisa Winter (→ U. Boulder), John Wise (→ Princeton), Shelley Wright (→ Berkeley), Josh Younger (→ IAS). More than 237 applicants. Rejection letters sent (Feb. 17), official list announced (Feb. 25). |
| ICTP, Trieste | Offer : Aseem Paranjape |
| U of Illinois (w/Mohr) (ad) | |
| U of Illinois (w/Lamb) (ad) | |
| INAF-OAB, Merate, European network (w/ Belloni ad) | Shortlist including C. Cabanac, T. Muñoz-Darias |
| INAF-IASF, Milan, Occhialini International Fellowship (ad) | Shortlist including C. Cabanac, D. Eckert, R. Gobat, L. de Ravel and U. Kostić. Offer made to C. Cabanac (declined) |
| INAF-Trieste (w/De Lucia ad) | Alvaro Villalobos |
| Innsbruck (several positions) (ad) | All positions filled, Rosita Paladino, Asmus Boehm and Wolfgang Kausch |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Offers made (Dec. 20): Matt McQuinn (declined), Brian Metzger (declined), Subo Dong, Rodrigo Fernandez (with Einstein Fellowship), Marilena LoVerde, Tobias Heinemann, Rejections notified (Feb 3rd) |
| Institute for the Early Universe (IEU Korea) (~10 positions for cosmology) (ad} | Scott Daniel, Shinsuke Kawai, Juhan Kim, Kyung Kiu Kim, Heuijin Lim, still accepting applications (Apr 2) |
| Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) (~5 positions for astrophysics/cosmology) (ad) | Offer made to Sudeep Das (Dec. 29) (declined), Marilena LoVerde (Dec. 29) (declined), Rajat Mani Thomas (Dec 30) , Ashley Ruiter (Jan. 15) (declined), Tsz Yan Lam (Jan 28) |
| Iowa (Kaaret) | offer to Ciprian Berghea |
| IRAM | |
| IST, CENTRA (5yr) | Offer: Vallery Stanishev, Filipe Abdalla |
| Irvine (w/ Bullock+Kaplinghat) | shortlist made |
| Irvine (w/Cooray) | offer made for the Herschel Science Team position |
| JPL (Herschel) | Shortlist includes Douglas Marshall, telephone interviews scheduled |
| JPL (Planck) | Shortlist includes Sudeep Das; Offer made: Gregory Dobler (declined) |
| JPL (w/ Turner) | Not funded |
| JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship program (short-term) | Offer: Elizabeth Tasker (NAOJ, short-term visiting position) |
| Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Pan-STARRS (PS1 Science Consoritum Postdoc, 1 position.) | |
| Keele (WASP/exoplanets) (ad) | John Southworth and Alexis Smith |
| Keele (stellar w/Jeffries) (ad) | shortlist includes (1/5): Robert King, Stuart Sale, Nicholas Wright; offer Rachel Smith |
| Kentucky (w/ Elitzur) | offer made to Rodrigo Nemmen (declined) |
| KIAA Fellowships (Peking Univ.) | Offers made: Tsz Yan Lam, Felipe Marin, David Tsang (declined), Matthias Gritschneder, Ruben Garcia |
| King’s College Junior Research Fellowship | shortlist made |
| KITP @ Santa Barbara | Shortlist includes Marcelo Alvarez, Matt McQuinn, Hagai Perets. Offers made to Matt McQuinn (declined), Marcelo Alvarez (declined), Gregory Dobler |
| LAB Bordeaux(France) (Herschel Space Observatory/WISH project) (ad) | |
| LAM Marseille (BINGO! project) (ad) | offer made to Emily Freeland (declined) |
| LAM Marseille (cosmology) | Shortlist made: Carlos López-Sanjuan |
| LAM Marseille (HOBYS project) | |
| LBL Chamberlain Fellowships (ad) | shortlist candidates interviewed in December, including Genevieve Graves + 3 in particle physics |
| Lehigh (w/ McSwain) | |
| Leiden (w/ Hoekstra) | Offer made |
| Leiden (w/ Schaye) | Milan Raicevic |
| Leuven (w/ Waelkens) ad | |
| Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship | Karina Caputi (→ Edinburgh) |
| Liverpool John Moores (w/ Carter) (ad) | shortlist includes Ana Matkovic. Offered to Arna Karick (Feb 2) |
| Liverpool John Moores (w/ Simpson) (ad) | |
| LLNL Lawrence Fellowship | offer to: Mark Ammons |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory (cosmology) | shortlist made, including: Smadar Naoz, offer: Michael Mortonson (declined) |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory (w/ Vestrand) (ad) | |
| Louvain (ad) | |
| Marie Curie Fellowship | Kalliopi Dasyra (CEA Saclay), Jacob Bean (Göttingen), Piergiorgio Casella (Southampton), Nicolas Bouche (UCSB), Basudeb Dasgupta (Valencia), Nick Moeckel (Cardiff), Ewan O’Sullivan (Birmingham) |
| Marshall Sherfield Fellowship | Ryan Hickox (declined) |
| Maryland Prize Fellowship-CTC | offer made: Soko Matsumura |
| Maryland (w/ Veilleux and Reynolds) | Margaret Trippe |
| Massachusetts-Amherst (w/Calzetti) | Alison Crocker |
| Melbourne (astroparticle) | Kallia Petraki |
| McGill | Position filled |
| U. of Miami (w/ Huffenberger) (ad) | |
| Michigan (w/Bell) (ad) | Jeremy Bailin |
| Michigan (w/Bregman) (ad) | Offered to Emily Freeland (declined), Alyson Ford |
| Michigan (w/Huterer and Watson) (ad) | ~140 applicants; offers made to: Devdeep Sarkar (Jan 08; data), Michael Mortonson (data; declined), Wenjuan Fang and Minjoon Park (theory) |
| Michigan (w/McKay) (ad) | Joerg Dietrich |
| Michigan (w/Miller) | Ryan Porter, Dipankar Maitra |
| Michigan (w/Monnier) (ad) | Offer made to Scott Gregory (declined) |
| Michigan (w/Oey) | Offer made and accepted |
| Michigan (w/Ruszkowski) | Offer made and accepted |
| Michigan (ROTSE) (ad) | Shortlist includes: Federica Bianco |
| Minnesota (nuclear astrophysics) | Laurens Keek |
| MIT Pappalardo Fellowship | Interviews held (Dec. 11-12) including Cullen Blake, Adam Brown, Chad Finley, Marilena LoVerde, Brian Metzger; no astrophysics offers |
| MIT (w/ Simcoe) (ad) | |
| MIT (X-ray postdoc) | Shortlist made, Offer made (02/20) (declined), no second offer |
| MPA Garching (stellar astrophysics and galactic archeology)ad | 70 applicants, some on shortlist invited to visit (Jan. 11); rejections notified (Jan. 14). Offers made, including Luca Sbordone |
| MPA Garching (theoretical astrophysics) (ad) | more than 200 applicants; long shortlist made; offers made (Jan. 26), including: Yan-Chuan Cai, Remo Collet (extension), Massimo Dotti, Thomas Greif, Alessia Gualandris, Ashley Ruiter, Glenn van de Ven; rejections letters sent (2 Feb.) |
| MPE Garching (Theoretical Structure Formation) | short list made, including: Jarrett Johnson, Thomas Greif, John Wise; offer made to Jarrett Johnson, Claudio Dalla Vecchia |
| MPIA Heidelberg Fellowships (Star & planet formation) | Shortlist made, including Jouni Kainulainen; offer made to: Helen Kirk (declined), Zoltan Balog, Suvrath Mahadevan, Jouni Kainulainen, Amy Stutz |
| MPIA Heidelberg Fellowships & Positions (Galaxies & Cosmology) ad | Karin Sandstrom, Yujin Yang, Noelia Noël |
| MPIfR Bonn (IR interferometry) ad | offer made (Feb. 23) |
| MPIfR Bonn (IR AGN) ad | deadline Mar 02 |
| Munich, Excellence Cluster Universe (Cosmology; 2 posts) | Offers made to: Fabian Schmidt (declined), Martin Kilbinger, Virginia Corless |
| NASA Ames SOFIA Development | Shortlist includes Matthew Povich (withdrawn), S. Ragan (declined), R. Lupu (declined) |
| NASA NPP Fellowship (Nov 1 Deadline) | Offers made (Jan. 21), including Ryan Lang (→ Goddard), Evan Kirby (declined), Steve Movit, Sasha Hinkley (declined), Judith Racusin, Michael Cushing, Michael McElwain, Tonia Venters (→ Goddard), Stella Kafka (→ DTM), John Hewitt (→ Goddard), Rodrigo Nemmen. Some rejection emails sent (Jan. 29) |
| NASA NPP Fellowship (Mar 1 Deadline) | Offers made, including Thayne Currie (→ Goddard), Raymond Kinzer (→ Goddard), Joe Masiero (→ JPL), some rejection emails citing funding constraints sent June 11 |
| U of Nevada Las Vegas (w/ Nagamine & Proga) (ad1 ad2) | short list made; phone interviews being conducted. Offer made to Paramita Barai |
| NIST | Daniel Swetz |
| U. New South Wales (w/Webb) (ad) | short list included Rob Wiersma, Russell Johnston. offer made to Rob Wiersma (declined) |
| NOAO (w/Dickinson) | Shortlist made, Offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe |
| NOAO (w/Stanghellini and Shaw, ad) | shortlist made, shortlist includes Bethan James (withdrawn), Kris Eriksen (withdrawn) |
| Northern Arizona University (Kuiper Belt studies w/ Trilling) (ad) | offer made |
| Northern Arizona University (NEO studies w/ Trilling) | offer made and accepted |
| Northwestern (Theory) | Offers made to Steve Berukoff, Alberto Sesana (declined), Rebecca Martin (declined), Smadar Naoz, Will Farr, Paul Kiel, Diego Fazi, Pranesh Sundararajan (declined) |
| Nottingham (w/ Copeland) | A long shortlist includes Antonio Cardoso, Antonios Papazoglou, Jussi Valiviita (application withdrawn),... |
| U of Notre Dame (w/ Balsara) (ad) | Offer made to Richard Mellon |
| NOVA Fellowship (ad) | Shortlist made (1/14) including Kalliopi Dasyra, Robert Feldmann (withdrawn), Oliver Hahn, Minjin Kim, Moire Prescott, Offer made to: Kalliopi Dasyra, Ben Oppenheimer (→ Leiden), Stefania Salvadori (→ Groningen) |
| NRAO ALMA Postdoctoral Fellow Position (ad) | |
| NRAO Jansky Fellowship | 76 applicants, 3 offers being made, rejections notified. Offer made to: Huib Intema |
| NRAO/North American ALMA Science Center (CASA) (ad) | Rachel Friesen |
| NRAO/North American ALMA Science Center (Splatalogue) (ad) | deadline Jan. 5, phone interviews being conducted |
| NRAO/UVA (w/Lonsdale) | offer made to Minjin Kim |
| NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (ad) | deadline Oct 15 |
| NSF Fellowship | Offers made (Jan. 27–28), including Cullen Blake(→Princeton, with Russell Fellowship), Catherine Espaillat, Eilat Glikman(→ Yale), Sarah Hansen(→ UCSC), Sasha Hinkley (withdrawn), Ilya Mandel(→Northwestern, then MIT), Michael McElwain (→ Princeton), Aaron Parsons(→ UC Berkeley, with honorary Townes), Matthew Povich(→ Penn State), Nicholas Sterling(→ Michigan State), Daniel Swetz, Benjamin Brown(→ Wisconsin), rejection letters sent via email (1/30) |
| NYU James Arthur | no astrophysics offers |
| Ohio State (CCAPP) (ad) | Over 200 applications received; Shortlist includes: Gregory Dobler, Laurie Shaw, Kyle Stewart; Offers: Basudeb Dasgupta, Tim Eifler, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Michael Mortonson; Rejections sent (Feb 12). Final rejections sent, all positions filled (Feb 23). |
| Ohio State (w/ Gould) (ad) | |
| Ohio State (w/ Kochanek) (ad) | Jeffrey Blackburne |
| Oslo: Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (w/ Lilje) (ad) | Offer made to Jussi Valiviita |
| Oslo: Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (obs. solar phys.) (ad) | |
| Oxford (w/Bunker) (ad) | Deadline 03/03 |
| Oxford (w/Schekochihin) (ad) | Shortlist includes Franco Rappazzo, Alessandro Zocco, Matthew Kunz |
| Oxford (w/Silk) (ad) | Offer made to Mark Crockett |
| Oxford (w/Dunkley) | shortlist includes Daniel O’Dea, Sudeep Das, Charmaine Armitage-Caplan. Offer made to Charmaine Armitage-Caplan. |
| Paris IAP (w/ Benabed) (ad) | Offer made to Jussi Valiviita (declined) |
| Peking University / KIAA (w/Peng) (ad) | Chengze Liu |
| University of Pennsylvania (CfPC) (ad) | Kurt Hinterbichler, Daniel Wesley |
| University of Pennsylvania (w/Devlin and Aguirre) | Offers made and accepted |
| University of Pennsylvania (w/Aguirre) | Offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe (declined) |
| University of Pennsylvania (w/Bernstein and Jain) | Offer: Yan-Chuan Cai and Anna Cabre |
| Penn State (w/ Brandt) | Interviews being conducted |
| Penn State (fixed term instructor, multiple positions) | Julia Kregenow. Offer made to Shelly Bursick |
| Penn State (w/ Charlton) (ad) | Shortlist includes Ana Matkovic, Emily Freeland, Iraklis Konstantopoulos |
| Penn State (w/Fox) | Interviews being conducted. Shortlist includes: Federica Bianco |
| Penn State (w/Gronwall) (ad) | Ana Matkovic |
| Penn State (w/ Luhman) (ad) | Offers made: declined, positions re-advertised ad,Offer: Sonali Shukla |
| Penn State (w/Wolszczan) | Offer: Soko Matsumura, Jose Fernandez, Chad Bender |
| Penn State (w/Pavlov) | Offer made to Chulhoon Chang |
| Perimeter Institute (Fellowships in Cosmology) | Offers made (Dec. 12): Adrienne Erickcek (joint with CITA), Marilena LoVerde (declined), Daniel Wesley (deferred), Sarah Shandera, Louis Leblond, David Skinner, |
| Plaskett Fellowship (ad) | interviews (Dec 23): Alison Crocker, Jennifer Donley, Aaron Dutton, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Evan Kirby, Danilo Marchesini, John Moustakas, Maria Pereira, Kristin Woodley, Jeff Wagg, Yong Shi, Scott Schnee, Glenn van de Ven, Yujin Yang. Offer made to Scott Schnee and accepted (Jan. 30), rejection letters sent. |
| Porto CAUP (5yr) (ad) | offer made to Mark Gieles (declined) |
| Portsmouth ICG (theory) | Offered to Fabian Schmidt (declined), Cyril Pitrou, Gong-Bo Zhao |
| Portsmouth ICG (galaxy formation) | Offered to Qi Guo (declined), Offer accepted by Bruno Henriques |
| Portsmouth ICG (w/Percival) | Offered to Christian Wagner (declined), Offer accepted by Ashley Ross, Lado Samushia |
| Potsdam AIP | |
| PPGF/IAU Fellowship | Thijs Kouwenhoven (→ KIAA Beijing) |
| Princeton Henry Norris Russell Fellowship | Offered (Jan. 12) to Heather Knutson (declined), offered (Jan 23) to Cullen Blake(with NSF Fellowship) |
| Princeton Lyman J Spitzer Fellowship | Rejection letters mailed the first week of March. Offer made: Kendrick Smith |
| Princeton (Theory) | Offers made: Brian Metzger (with Einstein fellowship), John Wise (with Hubble fellowship) |
| Princeton (Supernovae) | Offer made to Manou Rantsiou |
| Princeton (w/Spitkovsky) | Offer made and accepted |
| PUC-Chile, HAT-South Exoplanets (w/Jordan) | offer made to Markus Rabus |
| PUC-Chile, stellar astrophysics (Millenium Nucleus) | Offers made to Javier Alonso, Istvan Dekany |
| PUC-Chile, PUC/MPIA Research Associates (ad) | |
| Purdue (w/Lyutikov) | offer made and accepted |
| Purdue | Offer: Yan-Chuan Cai |
| U. Rochester (theory/computation) | Shortlist includes M Huarte-Espinosa (offer 6 Feb. Accepted 13 Feb.), Richard Mellon, Jose Gracia (withdrawn); some phone interviews conducted |
| U. Rochester (w/Mamajek) | Shortlist made and phone interviews being scheduled (2/6); shortlist includes Kathryn Peek (declined), Duy Nguyen (withdrawn), Eric Bubar. Offer made and accepted. |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (w/ Baum and O’Dea) (ad) | Offer made to Jeyhan Kartaltepe (declined), Brad Warren (declined), Rupal Mittal |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (w/Figer) (ad) | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (w/Kastner) (ad) | Shortlist includes Sonali Shukla |
| Royal Society Fellowship | Rejection emails sent (11 Feb), Shortlist: Damien Easson (with King’s College London), Mark Gieles (IoA, Cambridge), Rhaana Starling (Leicester). Offers made: David F. Mota (DAMTP, Cambridge) (declined), Filipe Abdalla (UCL), Phil Marshall (Oxford, deferred to 2010). |
| Rutgers (w/Gawiser) (ad) | Viviana Acquaviva |
| Rutgers (w/Hughes) (ad) | Kris Eriksen |
| SAAO | offer made |
| Sagan Fellowship | Some rejection emails sent (Jan 22); offers made mid-January, recipients asked not to disclose offers. Final rejections sent via email (Feb. 19). Official list announced (Feb 25): Subo Dong (→ IAS), Sasha Hinkley (→ Caltech), John Johnson (→ Hawaii), Stefan Kraus (→ Michigan), Eliza Miller-Ricci (→ UCSC). |
| Santa Cruzad | shortlist M Huarte-Espinosa. Fulai Guo |
| Santa Cruz (w/Fortney) | Nadine Nettelmann |
| SDSS-III/APOGEE (2 data postdocs) | Ana Garcia Perez, David Nidever |
| SDSS-III/APOGEE (instrumentation) | |
| SHAO (Shanghai) / MPA (Garching) Joint Postdoc ad) | Offer made to Paramita Barai (declined) |
| SISSA | Rejection letters sent. Offers made: Gregory Dobler (declined), Katherine Mack (declined), Rudy Gilmore |
| SMA Fellowship | Several Offers made: Catherine Espaillat, Silvia Leurini, Stefan Kraus (declined) |
| Stanford Fermi LAT (ad) | |
| Stanford Kavli Fellow (ad) | Offer made: Fabian Schmidt (declined) Rejections notified (1/21). Phil Marshall |
| Stanford/SLAC KIPAC Fellows (ad) | Offers made (Dec. 29) including Oliver Hahn, Daniel Swetz, Justin Vandenbroucke, Rolf Buehler, Adrienne Erickcek (declined), Matteo Barnabe; some rejections notified (1/21) |
| Stephen Hawking Advanced Fellowship | Offer made: Xingang Chen |
| STFC Advanced Fellowship | Short list made for interview, including: Elena Rossi, Glenn van de Ven, Justin Read; Rejection emails sent (Jan 23); interviews rescheduled and conducted March 10 and 11. Letters have been sent telling some candidates they are on a “still shorter list” with finances for the awards still uncertain. Some offers made (April 3), including Richard Alexander (→ Leicester). |
| STFC Postdoctoral Fellowship | Short list made for interview; including: Scott Gregory, Ryan Hickox, Katherine Mack, Devdeep Sarkar, rejection letters sent (1/22), offers made (1/30) including Scott Gregory (→ Exeter), Ryan Hickox (→ Durham), David Jess (Queens University Belfast), Katherine Mack (IoA Cambridge), Nina Hatch (Nottingham), Richard White (Leeds) |
| St Mary’s University (w/ Sawicki)(ad) | Offer made and accepted |
| STScI (w/Brown) | offer made & accepted(3/3) |
| STScI (w/Fruchter) (ad) | offer made (2/3) |
| STScI (w/Leitherer) | Shortlist includes Iraklis Konstantopoulos |
| STScI (w/Stiavelli)(ad) | Shortlist includes Russell Johnston |
| STScI (w/Aloisi, Sembach) | Shortlist made. Shortlist includes Adam Jensen. Offer made: Bethan James |
| STScI (w/Tumlinson, Sembach) | Chris Thom |
| STScI (w/Meixner, Gordon) (ad) | |
| STScI (w/ van der Marel ) | Shortlist made, interviews being conducted. Offer made to Sangmo (Tony) Sohn |
| Stockholm/OKC (DM/GRBs/AGNs) (ad) | Offer made (Dec. 22): Judith Racusin (declined), Josefin Larsson |
| Stockholm/OKC (High-z) (ad) | Shortlist includes Thomas Greif, Gabriel Altay, offer made to Thomas Greif (declined), Moire Prescott (declined), Kanan Datta |
| Stockholm/OKC (SNe/GRBs/Obs.Cosmology) (ad) | Martin Sahlén, 10 post-docs in total hired at OKC, all positions filled |
| Texas A&M w/Papovich | offer made |
| Texas A&M (w/ Tran) | Interviews underway, including Emily Freeland, Sabrina Stierwalt and Tim Rawle |
| University of Toledo (w/ Smith) | Shortlist made, Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Benjamin Bertincourt (declined) |
| UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (ad) | Offers made (Feb 27); rejections sent by snail mail |
| UC Davis (w/ Richter) (ad) | Andreas Seifahrt |
| UCLA (w/ Ong) | |
| UCLA (w/ Shapley) | Daniel Nestor |
| UC Riverside (w/Wilson) | interviews scheduled. Short list includes Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Ana Matkovic, Sara Petty. Offer made to Alessandro Rettura and Shelly Bursick |
| UCSB (TABASGO Fellowship) | Offer made (Jan. 2) to Jose Prieto (declined), Moire Prescott. Rejections letter sent (29 Jan.). ~250 applicants. |
| UCSB (w/Martin) | Alaina Henry |
| UCSB (w/Mazin) | Sean McHugh, Kieran O’Brien |
| UCSB (w/Treu) | Rejections notified (1/18). Offer: Brendon Brewer |
| UCSB (LCOGT) | Avi Shporer, Offer made (Jan. 26) to Federica Bianco |
| UCSD (CASS) | Rejection emails sent (Mar. 16) |
| UCSD (w/Coil) | Both offers made and accepted. |
| UCSD (w/Norman and Tytler) | |
| UPS-CESR (w/Banday) | |
| U. Texas at Austin (w/Milosavljevic and Bromm) (ad) | Shortlist made, offer made to Andreas Pawlik |
| U. Texas at Austin (Texas Cosmology Center Fellowship) (ad) | Lotty Ackerman, Jun Zhang |
| U. Texas at Austin (Harlan J. Smith Fellowship) (ad) | Evan Kirby (declined), Colette Salyk |
| University College London (two positions - Cosmology)(ad) | Shortlist made; phone Interviews scheduled. Shortlist includes: Yan-Chuan Cai, Wenjuan Fang, Oliver Hahn, Devdeep Sarkar, Cristiano Sabiu. Offer Made to: Yan-Chuan Cai, Devdeep Sarkar (declined), Cristiano Sabiu, Adrienne Leonard (declined), Ole Host |
| University College London (Origins Fellowship) | Offers made, rejection letters sent. Offer made to Shaun Thomas |
| U. Valencia (Spain) (ad) (Cosmology) | Offered to Amjad Ashoorioon (declined), Lotfi Boubekeur |
| Valparaiso - Chile, Brown dwarfs | Offer made to Stuart Folkes |
| Valparaiso - Chile, stellar astrophysics (Millenium Nucleus) | Offer made to Stuart Sale |
| Vanderbilt University (MARVELS, Exoplanets) (ad) | |
| Uppsala University (w/Danielsson) (ad) | Offered to Amjad Ashoorioon |
| U. of Victoria(w/Ellison) | Shortlist made. Rejections sent |
| U. of Victoria(w/Navarro) | Aaron Dutton (with CITA NF) |
| U. of Victoria (NGVS, w/ Ferrarese) (ad) | Shortlist made, phone interviews scheduled |
| U. of Vienna (w/Hensler) (ad) | Shortlist made including M Huarte-Espinosa (offer 5 Feb, declined) |
| Virginia | |
| Wesleyan (w/Redfield) (ad) | Interviews at AAS including Angelle Tanner, Emily Rice, Adam Jensen, Chad Bender; offer made to Chad Bender (declined) |
| West Virginia (w/Lorimer) | offer made and accepted (Nov. 26) |
| U. of Western Australia | Offer made (6th Feb) to Alan Duffy |
| Western Ontario | |
| Yale YCAA Prize Fellowships | AAS interviews: Aaron Dutton, Catherine Espaillat, Evan Kirby, Katherine Mack; offer made to Marcelo Alvarez (declined). Zheng Zheng. Rejections notified. |
| Yale (w/Arce) | Xuepeng Chen |
| Yale (w/Bailyn) (ad) | offer made (03/23), accepted (04/02) |
| Yale (Computational Cosmology) (ad) | Shortlist made, offer made to Laurie Shaw |
| Yale (Extragalactic Astronomy) (w/ van Dokkum) | |
| Yale (visiting faculty) (ad) | Eilat Glikman (with NSF) |
| Zurich University | Darren Reed, Clare Dobbs |
| Zurich (SNF Faculty Fellows) | Short List: Andrea Maccio, Juerg Diemand |
Tenure or Tenure Track Faculty/Permanent positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) | |
|---|---|---|
| U Andres Bello (Chile; ad) | Shortlist made (Nov. 29), including Franz Bauer, Lorenzo Monaco. Rejection letters sent (Dec. 30). Offers made and accepted: Giuliano Pignata, Patricia Arevalo | |
| U. Alabama (extragalactic observer) | Shortlist made, first invitations sent | |
| U. Alabama (computational/high-energy astrophysics theory) | Shortlist made, first invitations sent, including Dan Whalen, Darren Reed; offer made to Dan Whalen (declined) | |
| U. Alabama (astroparticle/high-energy physics theory) | Shortlist made, admin approval in progress | |
| Amsterdam (tenure track) | Anna Watts (internal promotion) | |
| Arizona State University | Damien Easson | |
| ACADEMIA SINICA OF TAIWAN (ASIAA) Assistant Research Fellow | Gregory Dobler (declined) | |
| Athens University, Greece (Theoretical Astrophysics) | ||
| Basel University, Switzerland (tenure track, theoretical Astroparticle) | interviews in progress, including Gianfranco Bertone, Evgeny Epelbaum, Cecilia Lunardini, Lucio Mayer, Alessandro Mirizzi, Alessio Notari, Werner Rodejohann, Friedrich Roepke, Leonardo Senatore, Pasquale Dario Serpico, Sergei Winitzki. Offer made (July 8) | |
| Bonn (W3 ongoing from 2007-08) | offer made to Norbert Langer (Nov. 28) | |
| Bonn (fixed-term W2) | ||
| Boston University ad | Long list made (Jan. 30), including Andrew West; Short list (Feb. 6) including Peter Frinchaboy, Stella Kafka, offer made to Andrew West | |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | Anže Slosar | |
| Bucknell University | long list made (Jan. 9), short list includes Rajib Ganguly, Katelyn Allers, Andrew Youdin. Offer made to: Katelyn Allers | |
| CalState Fullerton (Experimental Physics) ad | offer made to Joshua Smith | |
| CalState Los Angeles (Computational Physics) | Phone interviews (Jan 14) including Jonathan Dursi, Dimitris Stamatellos; candidates from short list invited for campus interviews | |
| CalState Long Beach (Theo/Comp Physics) ad | Search postponed due to state hiring freeze (Jan. 9) | |
| CalState Long Beach (Experimental Physics) ad | Search postponed due to state hiring freeze (Jan. 9) | |
| Caltech (Observational/Experimental Astrophysics) | Candidates include (Jan. 16): Adam Bolton, Judd Bowman, John Johnson, Dan Marrone, Josh Simon. Offer made to: John Johnson; |
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| Caltech (Theoretical or Computational Astrophysics (2 positions) ad | shortlist made (Feb. 16), including Yoram Lithwick, Jonathan McKinney, Christian Ott, Frans Pretorius, Anatoly Spitkovsky. Offer made: Christian Ott (Jun. 16) | |
| UC Riverside | Search cancelled | |
| UC Santa Cruz (Planetary Science) | Shortlist made: Matija Cuk, Ian Garrick-Bethell, Melinda Kahre, Matthew Pasek, Feng Tian and Anne Trinquier. Offer made: Ian Garrick-Bethell | |
| UC Santa Cruz (Physics) | Steve Ritz (faculty shuffle, from GSFC) | |
| Cambridge (Professorship of Experimental Astrophysics) | Sarah Church (declined), Steve Padin (declined) | |
| Cape Town (Senior Lecturer) | Offered to a SA national, position filled (Jan. 19) | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Director, McWilliams Center for Cosmology) | Piero Madau visiting (Feb 25) | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Multiple positions) | shortlist made (Nov. 18), including Sarah Shandera, Lucio Mayer, Michael Kuhlen, Hu Zhan, Hy Trac, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Priya Natarajan, multiple offers made (Nikhil Padmanabhan (declined), Lucio Mayer, Hy Trac) | |
| Central Lancashire (Multiple Positions) | Offers made to Daniel Brown, Danielle Bewsher; accepted | |
| College of Charleston (2 positions) | “Long list” made (Jan. 11), including Angelle Tanner, Peter Frinchaboy, Andrew Youdin, Tracey DeLaney; Phone Interviews Scheduled (Jan. 15); rejection letters sent (Jan. 16); Short list: Katelyn Allers, Hugh Crowl; Offers made to: Joe Carson and George Chartas | |
| Universidad Catolica del Norte (Chile, ad) | Shortlist made (Dec. 16) including Franz Bauer. Offers made to: Franz Bauer (Jan. 13) (declined), Lars Freyhammer (declined) | |
| Universidad de Chile | Shortlist made (Nov. 29), including Elizabeth Tasker, Andres Escala. Offer made and accepted: Andres Escala | |
| CNAP (France, 7 positions) | Alexandrova Olga, Le Bouquin Jean-Baptiste, Le Poncin-Lafitte Christophe, Bot Caroline, Cabanac Rémi, Salomé Philippe, Beelen Alexandre | |
| CNRS (France, 7 positions) | Benoit Famaey, Sean Raymond, Etienne Pariat, Christophe Pinte, Nicolas Nardetto, Stephane Blondin, Marceau Limousin | |
| Columbia University (1 position) | Marcel Agueros | |
| Dartmouth | Search cancelled | |
| Dublin City University (Lecturer) | Shortlist made, including Dimitris Stamatellos. Rejection letters sent | |
| Dublin, Trinity College (Lecturer) | Graham Harper | |
| Embry Riddle University (Space Physics Program) | Search Cancelled | |
| ESA ESTEC, Head of Research & Scientific Support Department | Mark McCaughrean (faculty shuffle from Exeter) | |
| ESO Garching, Head of the Office for Science | Eric Emsellem | |
| ESO Garching, ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer | interviews held | |
| ESO Garching, Astronomer | shortlist made (May 18) | |
| ESO Paranal, Astronomer (ad) | ||
| ETH Zurich (Chair in Solar Physics; (ad)) | shortlist made | |
| Exeter (Star Formation or Extra-solar Planets) | shortlist made (June 15) | |
| Frankfurt (Theory W3 Full Professorship) | some invitations sent out, including Hans-Thomas Janka, Matthias Liebendörfer, Christian Ott, Stephan Rosswog | |
| Gemini Obs (Deputy Director located in Chile) | Nancy Levenson | |
| Geneva | Shortlist: Damien Easson, Fabio Finelli, Martin Kunz, Andrew Tolley; Extended Shortlist: Alex Vikman. Offer made to Martin Kunz | |
| George Mason | Delayed due to funding | |
| Hamburg (W2, Theoretical Astrophysics) | Shortlist: A. Johansen, M. Stute, R. Banerjee, C. Helling, S. Wedemayer-Boehm, F. Kupka | |
| Harvard (Senior Faculty) | Search in progress | |
| Harvard (Junior Faculty) | Offered and accepted (May 18): Alicia Soderberg | |
| Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, HITS (W3 Full Professorship) | Volker Springel | |
| Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet (W3 Full Professorship) | shortlist: Luca Amendola, Laura Covi, Michael Doran, Constantinos Skordis, Nikolaos Tetradis, Carsten van de Bruck,offer made to Luca Amendola | |
| Heidelberg, MPIA (Galaxies & Cosmology, Instrumentation) ad | ||
| Heidelberg, MPIA (Galaxies & Cosmology, Observational Research) ad | Shortlist made (Dec. 24). Offer made to Joseph Hennawi | |
| Heidelberg, MPIA (Galaxy & Cosmology, Theory) ad | Shortlist: Stelios Kazantzidis, Andrea Maccio, Brant Robertson, Glenn van de Ven, Klaus Dolag (Jan. 19). Position filled: Glenn van de Ven | |
| Hertfordshire (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) | Search postponed | |
| Hobart & William Smith Colleges | interviews: Danilo Marchesini, at least one other; offered to Eilat Glikman (1/22) (declined); short list made (Feb.3) including Sebastien Lepine, Nathaniel Paust, Angelle Tanner. Position Not Filled this Year (3/30) | |
| Hong Kong (Observational Astronomy) (ad) | Shortlist made including Jeremy Lim, Donald Hoard, Campus interviews scheduled. Offer made and accepted: Jeremy Lim | |
| Hunter College | Offer made: Kelle Cruz | |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Matias Zaldarriaga | |
| Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) (ad) | Offer made: John Silverman | |
| Iowa State | phone interviews being scheduled (1/12), including Peter Frinchaboy, Sebastien Lepine, Sebastien Foucaud; campus interviews being scheduled (1/23) shortlist: Peter Frinchaboy, Kurtis Williams, Katelyn Allers, Bart Wakker. Offer made to: Massimo Marengo | |
| James Madison | Preliminary review complete, requesting letters from applicants, phone interviews being scheduled (1/16), including Sebastien Lepine, Rajib Ganguly, Dawn Peterson. Position filled (3/23) Anca Constantin. | |
| Johns Hopkins | Search cancelled | |
| Karlsruhe (W3 ongoing from 2007-08) | offer made to S. Hannestad (declined), J. Weller (declined) | |
| Kent (Lecturer) ad | Shortlist made. Rejection emails sent (1/26). Offer made (23/2). Stephen Lowry | |
| KIAA, Peking U. | Richard de Grijs (faculty shuffle, from Sheffield) | |
| Kutztown University (astronomy) | Campus interviews scheduled, including Peter Allen | |
| Kutztown University (astronomy-planetarium) | Campus interviews scheduled, including Peter Allen | |
| Leicester (Lecturer in Theoretical Astrophysics) | Shortlist made, offer made to Justin Read | |
| Leiden (galaxy evolution) | Shortlist made, including Thomas Greve, Inese Ivans, Christoph Pfrommer, Ivo Labbe’. Offer made to Rychard Bouwens | |
| Leiden (instrumentation) | Short list made, including Michael McElwain, Matthew Kenworthy, Lucas Labadie, Frans Snik. | |
| Leuven (astrophysics) ad | ||
| Lowell Observatory (Director) | Eileen Friel | |
| Manitoba | References requested; some on-campus interviews including Jonathan Dursi, Niccolo’ Bucciantini, Hy Trac | |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Alexandra Pope | |
| Michigan (Any Area) | Short list made (Jan. 28), including Tesla Jeltema, Jane Rigby, Adam Bolton, Mario Juric, Fabian Heitsch. Offer made (May 19): Elena Gallo | |
| Michigan (Data Mining) | shortlist: Brandon Kelly, Armin Rest, Rachel Mandelbaum, Chris Miller. Offer made to Chris Miller | |
| Michigan (Physics Dept) | Short list made, including Jeff McMahon and many non-astros | |
| Michigan-Flint (physics, ad) | Short list made, including Rajib Ganguly | |
| Michigan Tech | shortlist: Avi Mandell | |
| Minnesota (Astro) | Short list made (Jan 28) | |
| Minnesota (Cosmology) | Short list made (Jan 28), offer made to Clem Pryke | |
| Minnesota (High Energy) | Short list made (Jan 28) | |
| MIT | Shortlist made (Dec 31) Including Alicia Soderberg, Joseph Hennawi, Jonathan McKinney, Avery Broderick, Michele Vallisneri, Yoram Lithwick. Offer made (March 18): Alicia Soderberg (declined) | |
| U. of Montana | phone interviews being held (1/13), including Peter Frinchaboy, shortlist made Tracey DeLaney, Katelyn Allers, Nate McCrady; offered to Nate McCrady | |
| ICTP, Full Professor Position, Trieste | shortlist: Paolo Creminelli, Nemanja Kaloper, Alessandro Melchiorri, Ravi Sheth; opening of a new P-4 position, rumours of being promised to Ravi Sheth | |
| Munich (W3 Full Professorship - ongoing from 2007-08) | Final short list: Karl Gebhardt, Luigi Guzzo, Eiichiro Komatsu, Joe Mohr - offer made to Eiichiro Komatsu (declined), offer made to Joe Mohr | |
| Munich (W2 Professorship) | Short list made (May 8) | |
| NASA GSFC (Fermi group) | Elizabeth Hays | |
| NASA GSFC (High Energy) | Shortlist made. Interviews being scheduled. | |
| New York University Abu Dhabi - tenure track - multiple positions (ad) | ||
| Nice University (ad) | ||
| NRAO/North American ALMA Science Center (CASA Scientific Developer) (ad) | deadline Jan. 5 | |
| NRAO/North American ALMA Science Center (Commissioning Liaison) | Kartik Sheth | |
| Norfolk State (ad) | Shortlist made including Rajib Ganguly | |
| North Carolina (astrophysics) | Fabian Heitsch | |
| Northwestern University | shortlist including Yuexing Li, Elizabeth Tasker, Yoram Lithwick, Costas Tassis, Avery Broderick, Jonathan McKinney, Brant Robertson (Nov. 15). Offer made: Yoram Lithwick. Second offer made (Jan. 31): Yuexing Li (declined). | |
| Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (Associate Professor in observational astrophysics) | Assessment letters sent to 8 applicants | |
| Paris (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris) – International Chair in Theoretical Cosmology | offer made to Ben wandelt (Feb. 09) | |
| Paris (3 Junior Faculty permanent positions) ( ad) | ||
| Penn State (3 positions) | Jason Wright, Suvrath Mahadevan. Shortlist made (mid-late November): Yuexing Li, T.J. Cox, Andrew Youdin Nat Butler, Zheng Zheng. Cosmology offer made (March 17): Yuexing Li. | |
| University of Pittsburgh (cosmology) | Search cancelled | |
| Portsmouth (Permanent Fellow/Lecturer) ad | Short list of 4 made, interviews March 3rd. Alejo Martínez Sansigre to start 2010. | |
| Potsdam AIP (innoFSPEC) | offer made to Roger Haynes. Shortlist includes Suvrath Mahadevan, Daniel Harbeck | |
| Potsdam AIP (head Galactic Archaeology and Near-Field Cosmology group) | Roelof de Jong | |
| Princeton University | Short list includes: Alicia Soderberg, Amaya Moro-Martin, John Johnson, Heather Knutson, Joseph Hennawi, Jane Rigby, Klaus Pontoppidan, Peter Capak, Josh Simon, Dawn Erb. Two offers made: John Johnson (Feb 26, declined), Alicia Soderberg (Feb 27, declined), Edo Berger (April 29, declined) | |
| PUC (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; ad) | Shortlist made (Dec. 18), including Danilo Marchesini, Franz Bauer, Nicolas Bouche, Suvrath Mahadevan. Offers made to Suvrath Mahadevan (declined), Franz Bauer, Jorge Cuadra. | |
| Radboud University Nijmegen ( ad) | Deadline April 1 | |
| Ramon y Cajal (Spain) | ||
| U. Rochester (experimental plasma) | ||
| Rutgers (endowed chair) | ||
| U. San Francisco | Long list made, 15 min long phone interviews scheduled (Jan. 10), Shorter list made, Campus interviews scheduled (Jan 16), Kartik Sheth, Nate McCrady, Brenda Frye | |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago (physical sciences faculty) | phone interviews being scheduled | |
| SOFIA Director for Science and Mission Operations; ad | Erick Young | |
| South Carolina | Search cancelled | |
| Southampton (Lectureship) | Shortlist made, including Robert Minchin. Offer made, accepted (Nov. 14) | |
| Space Telescope Science Institute, ESA Astronomers | Shortlist made, including Zoltan Balog (withdrawn). Offer made: Patrik Jonsson (April 22), declined (May 15) | |
| St. Cloud State University - Assistant or Associate Professor and Planetarium Director (ad) | Campus visits underway (March 25); Annette Lee | |
| Strasbourg University (ad) | ||
| College of Staten Island - CUNY (Assistant professor, ad) | short list includes Hannah Jang-Condell | |
| Sul Ross State (ad) | Phone interviews, including Rajib Ganguly | |
| Sussex (Lectureship) | Shortlist made; Offer made and accepted. Ilian Iliev | |
| Syracuse | short list made (Jan. 8): Sarah Shandera, Eugene Lim, Scott Watson, Pat McDonald, Niayesh Afshordi; Offer made and accepted Scott Watson | |
| Syracuse (LIGO instrumentation) | short list includes: Sam Waldman, Stefan Ballmer, Josh Smith | |
| Texas Christian U. | Shortlist made (3/25), Offer made to Peter Frinchaboy | |
| Toronto (Dunlap Institute Director) | Candidate visits scheduled: James Graham, Rene Doyon | |
| Tufts | short list includes: Danilo Marchesini, Pat McDonald, Adam Bolton. offer made and accepted Danilo Marchesini | |
| UCL (lectureship) | Shortlist includes: Filipe Abdalla, Antony Lewis, Ben Metcalf, Hiranya Peiris, Constantinos Skordis. (2 offers) | |
| UCLA (Instrumentation/Astronomy) | Shortlist made (Feb. 16): including Matthew Kenworthy, Anna Moore. Offer made: Mike Fitzgerald (June 20) | |
| UCLA (ESS/AOS/IGPP) | Jean-Luc Margot, David Jewitt, Jonathan Mitchell | |
| UCSD | Adam Burgasser | |
| UK ATC | Interviews held Dec. 17 | |
| University of Utah | shortlist made (Jan. 17), includes Stelios Kazantzidis, Justin Read, Adam Bolton, Tracey DeLaney, Inese Ivans. Two offers made (Mar. 24), Adam Bolton, Inese Ivans | |
| IAG, Universidade de São Paulo | Alex Carciofi | |
| Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil (UFSC) | Abílio Mateus Jr. | |
| Vienna (Full Professor, Stellar astrophysics) | Short list: Joao Alves, Marc Audard, Henrik Beuther, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Cornelis Dullemond, Martin Groenewegen, Ralf Napiwotzki, Ansgar Reiners. Offer made: Joao Alves | |
| Vienna (Full Professor, Galaxy formation) | Short list: Cristina Chiappini, Emanuele Daddi, Kai Noeske, Philipp Richter, Daniel Thomas, Margrethe Wold, Chris Wolf, Bodo Ziegler | |
| Vienna (Full Professor, Gravitational Physics) ( ad) | some interviews, including Martin Bojowald, Piotr T. Chruściel, Stefan Hollands, Sascha Husa, Renate Loll (5/18); shortlist made (6/8) | |
| Washington State (William Band Chair) | Shortlist of 3; Offer made to Brad Gibson (9/13), declined | |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Planetary Geophysics) | Shortlist made | |
| University of Waterloo / Perimeter Institute (2 Joint Cosmology Positions)( ad) | Short list made (Jan. 22), including Niayesh Afshordi, Latham Boyle, Pat McDonald, Priya Natarajan, Julio Navarro. Offer made to Niayesh Afshordi .New search for second position being launched. | |
| Western Michigan U. | ||
| University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (Observational Astronomy) | shortlist: David Champion, David Kaplan. Offers made, accepted: David Kaplan (March 15), Dawn Erb. | |
| WIYN/ODI Data Pipeline Scientist | ||
| WIYN/ODI Queue Specialist | ||
| Yale (Astrophysics/Cosmology, Physics Dept.) | Short list made including Adam Bolton, Tesla Jeltema, Joseph Hennawi, Armin Rest, Alicia Soderberg, Sam Waldman, and Amanda Weinstein. offer made and accepted (3/27) Nikhil Padmanabhan | |
| Yale (Theory, Astronomy Dept.) | Short list made (Jan. 21), including T.J. Cox, Brant Robertson. Frank van den Bosch | |
Faculty Shuffle
| People (alphabetical) | Old Institution | New Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Adam Burgasser | MIT | UCSD |
| Richard de Grijs | U Sheffield | KIAA |
| Debra Fischer | SFSU | Yale |
| Manuel Guedel | ETHZ (not a faculty position) | Vienna |
| Wick Haxton | U Washington | UC Berkeley |
| Norbert Langer | U Utrecht | U Bonn |
| Mark McCaughrean | U Exeter | ESA |
| John Salzer | Wesleyan U | Indiana U |
| Matias Zaldarriaga | CfA Harvard | IAS Princeton |
| Frank van den Bosch | University of Utah | Yale |
Job rumours from previous years
Previous years: 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006. 2006-2007. 2007-2008
Also archived at: 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (links do not work, site is not active)
The other astrophysics job rumour mill. (link doesn’t work)
The theoretical particle physics job rumour mill.
The experimental particle physics job rumor mill.
Science faculty jobs physics job board.
The Geoscience job rumor mill (useful for the Planetary scientists). External Link
