Postdoctoral Fellowship in the VIRMOS Deep Survey - OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DE BRERA

No. 11745
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the VIRMOS Deep Survey
OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA
Via Bianchi 46
I-23807
Merate (LC)
Italy
Tel: +39-999-111
FAX: +39-999-1160
Email Submissions: guzzo@merate.mi.astro.it

Attention: Mrs. Cinzia Fumagalli, Office of the Director (Please quote reference "OAB-VIRMOS Fellowship")

We invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Cosmology to work in the VLT-VIRMOS Deep Survey at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (OAB), starting in the fall 2001. The fellowship is funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and the OAB as part of a national grant to support the project. The VIRMOS Survey will be conducted during 120 VLT nights by the VIRMOS Consortium (http://serweb.astrsp-mrs.fr/virmos/), a collaboration of six French and Italian institutes which are building two milestone spectrographs for the ESO Very Large Telescopes: VIMOS and NIRMOS. The first, operating in the visible, will be operative in early 2001. The successful applicant will be therefore fully involved in the survey beginning phases, to which he/she is expected to provide vigorous contribution in terms of observations, data analysis and interpretation. Exchange and collaboration with scientists from the other poles in the Consortium will be an essential component of the work.

The fellowship is initially for two years, with progress review after the first year. Further extension might be possible, pending re-funding of the grant and successfull activity. The applicants should have research interests and experience in the field of galaxy surveys, galaxy and large-scale structure formation and evolution. Experience with data analysis and the handling of large data sets will be an asset. He/She will be based in Merate, near Milan. The gross salary will be commensurate to experience, within the approximate range EU 22,000 to EU 25,000. The grant includes an appropriate travel and computing budget.

The fellow will benefit of the stimulating environment of the OAB, which houses one of the most active cosmology groups in Italy, directly involved in other large survey projects, as e.g. the REFLEX cluster survey and the BMW project. In addition to the gOleM optical instrumentation group which is directly contributing to the building of VIMOS/NIRMOS and other VLT instrumentation, OAB hosts a world-renowned X-ray technology group involved in several space projects, as e.g. the NASA-SWIFT satellite. Further details may be obtained from the www page (http://www.merate.mi.astro.it), and related links.

Interested individuals should send a Curriculum Vitae, list of publications and a statement of research interests. Application by e-mail are encouraged. They should also arrange to have three letters of reference sent directly to the same electronic address (or by regular mail if preferred).

Applications received before 15 January 2001 will be given full consideration. Please quote reference "OAB-VIRMOS Fellowship" on mail correspondence. Informal enquiries on the job may be made to Dr. L. Guzzo (tel. 039-999-1121 or 111, email: guzzo@merate.mi.astro.it)

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