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Astrophysics Job Rumour Mill
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Postdoc or term positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| Alberta: CITA National & Killam Fellowhips (ad) | |
| Arizona State University (w/Easson) (ad) | |
| AMNH Postdoctoral Fellowships (ad) | 73 applications. second round applications solicited; 1st round rejection notices sent (11/18) |
| ASTRON Postdoctoral Fellowships (ad) | |
| ARTIST Postdoctoral Fellowships (ad) | |
| Berkeley BCCP Fellow (ad) | |
| Berkeley Miller Fellowships (ad) | |
| Berkeley TAC Fellowships (ad) | |
| Berkeley-Zurich Fellowships (ad) | |
| Carnegie Fellowship | |
| Carnegie-Princeton Fellowship | |
| Case Western Reserve University (theoretical particle-astrophysics and cosmology postdoc (ad) | |
| CEA Saclay (IPhT - Theoretical Cosmology) (ad) | |
| Colorado (COS Postdocs) (ad) | offer(s) made |
| CONICYT (ad) | |
| Einstein Fellowships (ad) | |
| ESA Fellowships () | shortlist made, including Krzysztof Helminiak |
| ESO ALMA fellowship (ad) | |
| ESO fellowship (Chile) | 60 applications; shortlist made, invitations for interview sent |
| ESO fellowship (Garching) | 130 applications; shortlist made, invitations for interview sent |
| ETH Zurich (Zwicky Fellowships) (ad) | |
| ETH Zurich (extragalactic postdocs) (ad) | |
| ETH Zurich (star&planet formation) (ad) | |
| Fermilab CPA - Lensing (ad) | Ana Maria Mosquera |
| Fermilab Theoretical Astrophysics Fellowships (ad) | |
| Fermilab David N. Schramm Fellow (ad) | |
| Georgia Tech Center for Relativistic Astrophysics Fellowship (ad) | |
| Giacconi Fellowship (ad) | |
| Groningen (w/ Helmi) | |
| Harvard (w/ Soderberg) (ad) | |
| Harvard (w/ Berger) (ad) | |
| Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Fellowship (ad) | Shortlist made |
| Harvard-Smithsonian Clay Fellowship (ad) | Shortlist made |
| Haverford (w/ Willman) (ad) | |
| High Altitude Observatory, NCAR (solar/stellar physics ad) | deadline 01/04/2010 |
| Hubble Fellowship (ad) | 238 applications received |
| Institute for Advanced Study (ad) | |
| Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) (ad) | |
| Jansky Fellowship (ad) | |
| Johns Hopkins University (w/Heckman) (ad) | review of applications to begin next week (as of 10/14) |
| Leeds (w/Falle, Hartquist, Pittard) | Applicants invited, including Marcel Haas and Stephanie Bush. Offer made to Marcel Haas |
| Leeds (w/Hoare, Caselli, Lumsden, Oudmaijer) (ad) | |
| Leeds (w/Oudmaijer, Lumsden, Hoare) (ad) | |
| Los Alamos Cosmology Postdoc (ad) | |
| Los Alamos Particle, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Fellowships (ad) | |
| LBNL Chamberlain Fellowship (ad) | shortlist includes Hugh Lippincott |
| LBNL Cosmology Postdoc (ad) | |
| McGill CITA National Fellowship (ad) | |
| McGill Tomlinson Postdoctoral Fellowship (ad) | |
| McGill Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astrophysics (ad) | Short list made |
| Michigan State (Voit/O’Shea) (ad) | |
| MIT Haystack Observatory postdoctoral position (ad) | |
| MIT Pappalardo Fellowships (ad) | |
| MPA, ~10 positions (3 and 5 year) across all fields, deadline Dec 5 2009 (ad) | |
| MPA, First stars, deadline Dec 15 2009 (ad) | |
| MPE, (TMoX Group), deadline Dec 20 2009(ad) | |
| MPIA, Planet- and Starformation Dept., ~5 positions, deadline Dec 1 2009 (ad) | |
| MPIA, Galaxies and Cosmology Dept., ~5 positions, deadline Dec 1 2009 (ad) | |
| MPIA, (Sub-)mm, 2 positions, deadline Dec 15 2009 (ad) | |
| MPIA, w/ van de Ven, deadline Dec 15 2009 (ad) | |
| Munich Excellence Cluster | |
| NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowships (ad) | |
| National Observatory of Athens, IAA (w/ Bonanos) (ad) | |
| NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| New York University James Arthur Fellowships (ad) | |
| Northwestern University - Lindheimer Fellowship (ad) | |
| Northwestern University - CIERA Fellowships (ad) | |
| Northwestern University - Theoretical Astrophysics Positions (ad) | |
| Northwestern University - Observational Astronomy Position (ad) | |
| Ohio State CCAPP Fellowships (ad) | |
| Ohio University (w/ Boettcher) | |
| Oxford (Mississippi) ( ad), gravitational waves | |
| Plaskett Fellowship (NRC-HIA) (ad) | |
| Potsdam (AIP) LOFAR postdoc (ad) | |
| Portsmouth (ICG) observational cosmology postdoc (ad) | |
| Princeton (ad) | |
| Purdue (Peterson) | |
| Royal Society URF (ad) | |
| SISSA, Trieste (ad) | |
| Space Telescope Science Institute (w/Pascucci) (ad) | Basmah Riaz |
| Southern California Center for Galaxy Evolution (UCI,UCLA,UCR,UCSD,UCSB) (ad) | |
| STFC Postdoctoral Fellowships (ad) | |
| STFC Advanced Fellowships (ad) | |
| Stockholm/Oskar Klein Centre (extra-galactic) | |
| Syracuse (w/Watson) (ad) | |
| UC Davis (w/Albrecht & Kaloper) (ad) | |
| UC Davis (w/Bradac) (ad) | |
| UC Davis (w/Knox) (ad) | |
| UC Irvine CMB/LSS theory (w/Cooray) (ad) | |
| UC Irvine infrared astronomy (w/Cooray) (ad) | |
| UCSC Interstellar / Intergalactic Medium Fellowship (ad) | |
| UCSD (w/Norman and Tytler) | |
| Universidad de Chile (ad) | |
| University of Bordeaux (w/Loison and Wakelam) (ad) | |
| University of Michigan (w/Gallo) (ad) | |
| University of Toronto (w/Jayawardhana) | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison (w/Townsend) (ad) | |
| Weslyan (w/Redfield) (ad) | Adam Jensen |
| West Virginia University | offered to Manjari Bagchi, Chunglee Kim |
| Yale (w/van den Bosch), deadline Dec 15 2009 (ad) | |
| YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship (ad) | |
| Zurich ITP Cosmology and Theoretical Astrophysics (ad) | |
| Zurich ITP Planet Formation (ad) |
Tenure or Tenure Track Faculty/Permanent positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accept) |
|---|---|
| Alberta (faculty position in observational astrophysics) ad | |
| Arizona ad | |
| Arizona State ad | |
| Basel University, Switzerland (tenure track, theoretical Astroparticle) (ongoing from 2008-09) | interviewed people include 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) to Evgeny Epelbaum |
| Bonn (fixed-term W2) | Shortlist of 7 candidates made and interviews scheduled |
| Carnegie Mellon | Shortlist made. Includes Andrew Tolley. |
| Case Western (ad) | |
| ESO Garching (User Support Astronomer) | Short-list of 6 made, including Elena Valenti, Lise Christensen and Maria-Rosa Cioni. Interviews made. |
| Florida Institute of Technology (ad) | Dan Batcheldor |
| Georgia Tech Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ad) | |
| Gemini Observatory (Associate Director for Science) | Planned phone interviews with 3 candidates. |
| Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet (W3 Full Professorship) (ongoing from 2008-09) | shortlist: Luca Amendola, Laura Covi, Michael Doran, Constantinos Skordis, Nikolaos Tetradis, Carsten van de Bruck,offer made to and accepted by Luca Amendola |
| High Altitude Observatory, NCAR (Director) | shortlist: David Alexander, Paul Cally, John Grunsfeld, Scott McIntosh, Tuija Pulkkinen, Bob Robinson, Mike Thompson |
| Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT, Seattle), tenured or tenure track Senior Fellow position (ad) | |
| Jena (gravity, tenure-track W1) | Shortlist made, including Marcus Ansorg, Mark Hannam, Jocelyn Read, Erik Schnetter, Ulrich Sperhake; inverviews scheduled for early October |
| LBNL Cosmology ad | |
| Lund (exoplanets) | Anders Johansen |
| MIT | |
| Monash University ad | Kevin Pimbblet |
| Montana State (tenure track gravity/cosmology) ad | |
| MPA Garching (tenured or tenure-track staff member in cosmology group) | Initial shortlist of 4 candidates being interviewed |
| MPE Garching (HE group director) | Procedure started for K. Nandra |
| New York University ad | |
| NOAO ad | |
| NSF | interviews completed for Director and Deputy Director, Division of Astronomical Sciences |
| Ohio State University (Physics; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP)) ad | |
| PUC-Chile (ad) | |
| Ramon y Cajal (Spain) | Patricia Sanchez-Blazquez (→ UAM ), Nicolas Lodieu (→ IAC), Herve Bouy (→ ?) |
| Sussex (Lectureship in theoretical cosmology) ad | Antony Lewis, David Seery |
| University of Oregon (tenure-track faculty position in the areas of theoretical particle physics, astrophysics, or cosmology) ad | |
| University of Chicago ad | |
| University of Oxford (Lectureship / Exoplanets) | Suzanne Aigrain |
| University of Pittsburgh (Astrophysics and Cosmology) ad | (Application Deadline Nov. 16) |
| Utrecht | Applicants invited |
| Vienna (Full Professor, Galaxy formation) | Short list: Cristina Chiappini, Emanuele Daddi, Kai Noeske, Philipp Richter, Daniel Thomas, Margrethe Wold, Chris Wolf, Bodo Ziegler; offer made to Philipp Richter (Oct 21) |
| Washington State ad |
Faculty Shuffle
| People (alphabetical) | Old Institution | New Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Suzanne Aigrain | Exeter | Oxford |
| Isabelle Baraffe | Lyon | Exeter |
| Richard Ellis | Oxford | Caltech (returning after 1 year) |
| Paolo Padoan | UCSD | ICC Barcelona |
| Fernando Quevedo | Cambridge | ICTP (Director) |
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 2008-2009
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
