ASU mobility: Call for Applications (07)

Title: Junior research stay

Institution: European Southern Observatory

Location: Garching, Germany

Closing date: 15.7.2022

Contact: Marek Skarka

Job announcement text:

The Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (ASU) invites applications for a 4-month collaborative stay of a junior researcher in the European Souther Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Germany. The stay will be funded through a working agreement in the framework of the project “Support of international collaboration in astronomy”, which is provided by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.  The applicant should be a junior researcher or a Ph.D. student in the institution in the Czech Republic, and should have experience in the field of processing spectroscopic data. The stay will be supported by Dr. H. Boffin on the side of the ESO, who contributes by work on the software for processing data for the PLATOSPec project, lead by the ASU. The stay is expected to start in the 1st September 2022.

Project PLATOSPec is a collaboration among ASU, ESO and other partners, aiming to develop a modern spectrograph. The stay of the junior researcher will significantly contribute to the development of know-how in the instrumentation and to the research of exoplanets in ASU.

To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, diploma or confirmation of the PhD study and recommendation of the supervisor to the following address:

to: kabath (at) asu.cas.cz
subject: “Mobility 2022 – ESO PLATOSPec”
cc: markova (at) asu.cas.cz