ICRAR is looking for a highly motivated scientist to join the Cosmological Theory group as part of the prestigious Jim Buckee Fellowship scheme in Astrophysics. You will play a key role in carrying out an independent and innovative research programme using galaxy formation modelling in cosmological simulations on state-of-the-art supercomputers to make predictions that can be tested using observational data from the SKA pathfinders, such as ASKAP, and the ultimately the SKA itself.
Over the coming decade, large surveys on cutting-edge radio telescopes, culminating with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will provide unique insights into the distribution of gas on both galactic and cosmological scales over the last several billion years of cosmic time. The results of these surveys will revolutionize our understanding of the physical processes that drive galaxy formation and evolution, including star formation and feedback from stars and accreting super-massive black holes, while also revealing, for example, the fate of the so-called missing baryons in the cosmic web.
Cosmological galaxy formation simulations provide a powerful tool for the design and interpretation of these surveys, and efforts are underway at ICRAR-UWA to develop both the simulations and analysis framework to support these surveys. You will play a key role in carrying out an independent and innovative research programme using galaxy formation modelling in cosmological simulations on state-of-the-art supercomputers to make predictions that can be tested using observational data from the SKA pathfinders, such as ASKAP, and the ultimately the SKA itself.
ICRAR astronomers have access to the nearby Pawsey supercomputing centre, home to the Setonix supercomputer, which is one of the top 15 supercomputers in the world (as of November 2022), as well as a wide range of observational facilities (including ESO facilities, ATCA and ASKAP).