GCCL Fellowship Programme

Submission Information
Publish Date: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Archive Date: 
Wednesday, January 5, 2022
Job Summary
Job Category: 
Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships
Institution Classification/Type: 
Foreign
Institution/Company: 
Ruhr University Bochum
Department Name: 
Astronomical Institute
Street Line 1: 
Universitätsstr. 150
City: 
Bochum
State/Province: 
NRW
Zip/Postal: 
44780
Country: 
Germany
Announcement
Job Announcement Text: 

The German Centre for Cosmological Lensing (GCCL; https://gccl-rub.github.io) welcomes applications for its postdoctoral fellowship programme. In addition to the main centre at the Ruhr University Bochum, the GCCL includes nodes at Bonn, Heidelberg, Garching, and Munich.

We are seeking applicants with expertise in some of the varied and important skill sets required for the future cosmological lensing analysis of LSST and Euclid. These skills include image processing, image simulation, photometry, shear and redshift estimation, mock catalogue production, statistical data analysis, cosmological parameter inference and theoretical modelling of weak lensing observables. For the first two years of the fellowship, at least 50% of the fellow’s time will be spent working for the LSST Dark Energy Science Consortium. There will also be the opportunity for fellows to join the KiDS Consortium and the Euclid Consortium.

The GCCL is committed to advancing equality and diversity, welcoming applications from everyone irrespective of gender, ethnic group or nationality. We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working. Most importantly we believe that having fun should be a key aspect of our work. The GCCL fellowships will nominally start in autumn 2022 with earlier/later start dates possible and welcomed.  

Informal enquiries may be made to the Directors of the GCCL, Catherine Heymans ([email protected]) and Hendrik Hildebrandt ([email protected]).

Candidates should submit a CV and research proposal of up to three pages to [email protected] before Jan 9th 2022 as a single pdf-file. Letters of recommendation from three referees should be sent to the same e-address before the closing date. The first round of video-interviews will be scheduled between the 24th and 28th of January 2022.

Application Deadline: 
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Selection Deadline: 
Monday, January 31, 2022
Current Status of Position: 
Accepting Applicants
Apply to Job
Attention To: 
Bettina Göldner
Inquiries About Job
Attention To: 
Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt