Postdoctoral Research Associate in Solar and Stellar Flare Statistics (Women Only)

• Full time 2 years fixed term employment, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics
• Research opportunity in solar astrophysics
• Base Salary Level A $97,043 p.a. - $107,516 p.a. + 17% superannuation

This position is exempt under section 126 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, to conduct targeted recruitment programs for women.

The Postdoctoral Research Associate in Solar and Stellar Flare Statistics will use theory, data analysis, and computation to improve our ability to predict solar and stellar flares. Solar flares are the most energetic events in the solar system, and can create hazardous conditions in our local space environment. This project involves: producing an improved solar flare catalogue, suitable for investigating spatio-temporal correlations in flare statistics; developing a theoretical “stress-relax” model for flare occurrence, and combining it with the data, to probe the flare mechanism; applying the model to develop new approaches to prediction. The work will be done in collaboration with established research groups at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.

Ideal candidate will have:

• a PhD (or one to be completed before starting) in physics or applied mathematics
• excellent computational skills, including the ability to write codes, in Python or other languages
• demonstrated skills in data analysis, and the visualization and interpretation of data etc.

Close date: 11.30pm,19 October 2022

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