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2015-04-10 19:04:54| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
The Astrophysics Group of SRON and the Department of Astrophysics of the Radboud University have a vacancy for a PhD student fm SRONs mission is to bring about breakthroughs in international space research. The institute develops pioneering technology and advanced space instruments, and uses them to pursue fundamental astrophysical research, Earth science and exoplanetary research. SRON invites applications for this 4year PhD position funded by ERC Consolidator Grant number 647208 to Dr. Peter Jonker. The PhD student will work in the group of Dr. Peter Jonker. The endgoal of the work is to determine whether intermediatemass black holes exist in ultraluminous Xray sources and if so what their mass distribution is. The employed tools include nearinfrared imaging and spectroscopy of relatively nearby ultraluminous Xray sources. The PhD student will be based in Utrecht and part of the time in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Employment conditions Employment of this fulltime position is by NWO The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and will be for a period of up to 4 years. The salary will be in accordance with the salary scales of NWO. NWO has good secondary employment conditions such as An end of year bonus of 8,33 of the gross yearly salary 42 days of vacation leave a year on fulltime basis An excellent pension scheme Options for additional personal development Excellent facilities for parental leave A holiday allowance of 8 of the gross yearly salary. Further information Dr. Peter Jonker, SRON Radboud University, tel.no. 31 0 88 777 5877. Letter of application Applicants should send a CV including a statement on their motivation to apply for this project and the names and email addresses of maximally two references as well as a short maximally 1 A4 outline of their knowledge and experience to jobssron.nl stating vacancy number 1153 in the email subject. Applications will be accepted until June 1, 2015. The preferred starting date is Sept 1, 2015.
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