Call for applications to doctoral program 2018A in UST-KASI

Call for applications to doctoral program 2018A in UST-KASI

Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) via the University of Science and Technology (UST) is offering doctoral scholarships (direct and integrated) starting from March 2018 (for more info, see https://www.ust.ac.kr/astros_eng.do). PhD scholarships are provided with a competitive salary of about $1500 per month. KASI is located in Daejeon, a high tech, educational and research oriented city. Convenient accommodation would be provided to students for the first 3 years in the campus.

KASI is actively involved in various fields of astronomy and astrophysics, from astronomical instrumentation to observation and theory, and participates in international collaborative and stand-alone projects including GMT, ALMA, SDSS4, DESI, LSST, KMTNet, and KVN. This semester KASI is accepting applications for the following research areas:

• Theoretical Astrophysics & Cosmology
• Galactic and Extragalactic Astronomy
• Space Science

and also see the list of specific research topics in the end of this announcement.

We encourage qualified international students to apply. Competent students with BSc degrees can apply for an integrated PhD program. Students with MSc degrees may apply directly to the PhD program.

Questions on each research area should be sent to each assigned professor, while other questions are sent to the Chief Major Professor (Sang-Sung Lee, [email protected]). For more information of application, also see the UST web page (https://ust.ac.kr/admission_eng.do).

Best regards,
Sang-Sung Lee
Chief Major Professor