Opportunities

SARAO/UWC SCIENCE OPERATIONS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

SARAO and UWC are offering an exciting postdoctoral opportunity for a researcher interested ingaining experience in the science operations of the MeerKAT telescope. In this role, the successful candidates will support MeerKAT telescope operations, its users, and havethe opportunity to carry out their own research (up to 50 %). The SKA precursor MeerKAT is a …

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS CENTRE FOR RADIO COSMOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE, CAPE TOWN

The Centre for Radio Cosmology at the University of the Western Cape invites applications fora postdoctoral fellowship in areas of research relevant to its faculty members. These include:observational and theoretical Cosmology related to MeerKAT/SKAO and its synergies withother telescopes (with particular emphasis on the MeerKAT HI intensity mapping project), HIgalaxy science, machine learning, and radio …

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HONOURS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2024 CENTRE FOR RADIO COSMOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE DEADLINE: 16 October 2023

The Centre for Radio Cosmology (CRC) in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UWC isinternationally recognised for its research in cosmology and galaxy evolution with MeerKAT, theSquare Kilometre Array (SKA) and other telescopes (see astro.uwc.ac.za for further details). In 2023, the CRC research team includes 24 PhD/ MSc students and 11 postdoctoral fellows.Postgraduate students …

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MSc AND PhD SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2024 CENTRE FOR RADIO COSMOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE DEADLINE: 5 June 2023

The Centre for Radio Cosmology (CRC) at UWC is internationally recognised for its research in cosmology and galaxy evolution with MeerKAT, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and other telescopes (see astro.uwc.ac.za for further details). In 2023, the CRC research team includes 24 PhD/ MSc students and 11 postdoctoral fellows. Postgraduate students at the CRC work …

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CRC MSc AND PhD BURSARIES FOR 2023 

DEADLINE:  6 June 2022 The Centre for Radio Cosmology (CRC) at UWC is internationally recognised for its research in cosmology and galaxy evolution with MeerKAT, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and other telescopes (see astro.uwc.ac.za for further details). In  2022, the CRC research team includes 21 PhD/ MSc students and 11postdoctoral fellows. Postgraduate students at the CRC work in a friendly and highly active …

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Writing Scientific Papers in Astronomy

A paper has been written, about writing papers in Astronomy! It may sound ironic, but there is a lot of specialised skills going into writing in an academic style optimised to transmit scientific savoir-faire, methods, algorithms, assumptions, context of research and more. Writing papers is often one of those skills that is acquired by exposure, …

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LSST Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

The Astronomy group at UWC (http://astro.uwc.ac.za) based in Cape Town, South Africa, is internationally recognised for its research in cosmology with MeerKAT, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and other radio and optical/IR telescopes. In 2021, the UWC Astro Group consists of 25 …

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Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Centre for Radio Cosmology (CRC) at UWC is internationally recognised for its research in cosmology using MeerKAT, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and other radio and optical/IR telescopes. CRC faculty are involved in MeerKAT and SKA key science, as well as in HERA, HIRAX and the Rubin Observatory (LSST). In 2021, the UWC Astro …

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RAS – Astro4Dev grants

The annual call for RAS Astro4Dev grants is now open. Due to travel restrictions, the grants will be awarded in two categories this year: astronomy-for-development technical projects virtual attendance at the 2021 National Astronomy Meeting of the UK (closing date for abstracts 30 April 2021) Deadline for applications: 10 May 2021 More information: http://www.astro4dev.org/partners-programs/rasexperts2/