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- Faculty Positions (visiting & non-tenure) — Time limited position at a university or college. Includes teaching responsibility.
- Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track) — Permanent (or leading to a permanent) position at a university or college. Includes teaching responsibility.
- Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions — Typically associated with a Fellowship or other source of funding to support those seeking a degree from an institution of higher education. May also include funding opportunities for exchange programs or other professional development.
- Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships — Typically located at a university, college or government lab. Allows recipient to pursue independent research or research support for a specific science program defined by the employer. Is limited to a pre-determined period of time. Usually does not include teaching responsibilities.
- Science Engineering — Instrument design and development, software development, IT system support, and other project related responsibilities. Open-ended duration of employment.
- Science Management — Runs projects and programs at universities, government or private industry. Open-ended employment.
- Scientific/Technical Staff — Includes researchers at science centers, government labs, university, or private industry. May include both user support or project related work and time for individual research. Open-ended duration of employment. Usually does not include teaching. May or may not require PhD.
- Other — Any position that does not seem to fit.
Faculty Positions (visiting & non-tenure)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visiting Assistant Professor, Physics | University of Tampa | Tampa, Florida | 2020/03/28 | 2020/04/25 | Accepting Applicants |
| Director’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Astrophysics | Swinburne University Of Technology | Hawthorn, Other / Non-US | 2020/03/27 | 2020/05/22 | Accepting Applicants |
| Academic Professional in Astronomy Instruction - Georgia State University | Georgia State University | Atlanta, GA | 2020/03/24 | 2020/04/24 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Senior Research Scientist (LOFAR) – Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia | Ventspils University of Applied Sciences | Ventspils, Ventspils | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Research Scientist (VLBI) – Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, Latvia | Ventspils University of Applied Sciences | Ventspils, Ventspils | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/15 | Accepting Applicants |
Faculty Positions (tenure & tenure-track)
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full professorship (Chair/W3) for Experimental Physics (Sub-mm Astronomy) | University of Cologne | Cologne, NRW | 2020/04/04 | 2020/05/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| 2020 Faculty Positions in Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) | Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) | Daejeon, Yuseong-Gu | 2020/03/20 | 2020/04/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Permanent Science staff Position in exoplanetary science at the Department of Astrophysics, CEA Paris-Saclay, France | Institute of Research into the Fundamental laws of the Universe (Irfu) at CEA Paris-Saclay | Gif-sur-Yvette , Ile-de-France | 2020/03/15 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| A faculty position in astronomy and astrophysics at UNIST | UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) | Ulsan, Ulsan | 2020/03/12 | 2020/06/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Director (Australian SKA Regional Centre) | University of Western Australia | Crawley, WA | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/17 | Accepting Applicants |
| Senior Professorship in Physics (Astrophysics, Geophysics or Theoretical Physics) | Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies | Dublin, Dublin | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astronomy Faculty Positions at University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui Province | 2020/02/20 | 2020/05/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Post-doctoral Positions & Fellowships
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Postdoctoral Program - Application Deadline July 1, 2020 | NASA / Universities Space Research Assocaition | Multiple Locations, MD | 2020/04/04 | 2020/07/01 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| 1-2 Postdoctoral research fellowships in Solar Physics at the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics of the University of Oslo. | University of Oslo | Oslo, Oslo | 2020/03/26 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in Astrophysics: dark matter and galaxy formation/evolution | University of Iceland | Reykjavík, Capital Region | 2020/03/20 | 2020/04/21 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Postdoc in instrumentation for future MeV gamma-ray satellite | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY | Zeuthen, Brandenburg | 2020/03/19 | 2020/04/16 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gravitational Wave Astrophysics | University of Warwick | Coventry, Warwickshire | 2020/03/18 | 2020/04/15 | On Hold |
| Postdoctoral researcher at the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO | University of Turku | Turku / Greater Helsinki area, NA | 2020/03/18 | 2020/04/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral position in adaptive optics / optical interferometry | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Garching, Bavaria | 2020/03/18 | 2020/05/15 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral associate position in the area of star-exoplanet systems | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam | 14482 Potsdam, Brandenburg | 2020/03/13 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Positions for High Energy Astrophysics at UNIST | UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) | Ulsan, Ulsan | 2020/03/12 | 2020/06/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| 3 year postdoctoral fellowship | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong, Hong Kong | 2020/03/12 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| OzGrav Postdoctoral Research Fellow in precision pulsar timing and gravitational wave detection | Swinburne University of Technology | Hawthorn, Victoria | 2020/03/11 | 2020/04/19 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Researcher in Planetary Magnetospheric Physics | Southeastern Universities Research Association | Washington, D.C, District of Columbia | 2020/03/11 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral Fellowship positions - ASTROdust project | National Centre for Nuclear Research | Warszawa, mazowieckie | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/24 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in HI Surveys and Galaxy Evolution | CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science | Perth, Western Australia | 2020/03/07 | 2020/04/24 | Accepting Applicants |
| SALT Postdoctoral Fellowship | National Research Foundation - South African Astronomical Observatory | Cape Town, Western Cape | 2020/03/06 | 2020/04/03 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Scholar | The Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio | 2020/03/03 | 2020/04/19 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Four Postdoctoral Positions with the ALeRCE Broker Project and MAS | Milenio Institute de Astrofísica (MAS) | Santiago, RM | 2020/03/03 | 2020/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| South African Radio Astronomy Observatory - Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships Commencing in 2021 | South African Radio Astronomy Observatory | Johannesburg, South Africa | 2020/03/01 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Astro 3D Research Fellow | Curtin University | Perth, Western Australia | 2020/02/29 | 2020/04/23 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Astronomy | Columbia University | New York, NY | 2020/02/27 | 2020/06/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Scholar_Time Domain_Department of Astronomy | UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 2020/02/26 | 2020/03/27 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Fellowships in Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China | University of Science and Technology of China | Hefei, Anhui Province | 2020/02/20 | 2020/04/10 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow Position in Extra-galactic Astronomy and Cosmology | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | Seoul, South Korea | 2020/02/17 | 2020/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral positions in the field of diffuse X-ray emission | Istituto Nazionale di Astronomia | Merate, Italy | 2020/02/16 | 2020/04/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multi-Wavelength Transient Astronomy | Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, VIC | 2020/02/15 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral position in asteroseismology in IRAP (Toulouse, France) | IRAP / Observatoire Midi Pyrenees | Toulouse, Occitanie | 2020/02/14 | 2020/03/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Post-doctoral position in astrophysical fluid dynamics | Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie | Toulouse, Occitanie | 2020/02/14 | 2020/03/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Position in the field of diffuse X-ray emission | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Garching, Bavaria | 2020/02/13 | 2020/04/20 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gravitational Wave Discovery - Electromagnetic Detection | Swinburne University of Technology | Hawthorn, VIC | 2020/02/08 | 2020/03/31 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postdoctoral Positions in Astrophysics | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | Wuhan, Hubei | 2020/01/21 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
Pre-doctoral/Graduate Positions
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD position in Star Formation | University College Dublin | Dublin, Dublin | 2020/04/01 | 2020/05/01 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD Position in Astrophysics: dark matter and galaxy formation/evolution | University of Iceland | Reykjavík, Capital Region | 2020/03/20 | 2020/04/21 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| PhD student position on simulations of star-planet interactions | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam | 14482 Potsdam, Brandenburg | 2020/03/13 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| PhD position in Paris on relativistic astrophysics | Paris Observatory | Meudon, Ile de France | 2020/03/07 | 2020/04/23 | Accepting Applicants |
| Predoctoral Fellowship at Chandra X-ray Center | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian | Cambridge, MA | 2020/03/06 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Analyst (Pre-Doctoral Program), Center for Computational Astrophysics | Flatiron Institute/Simons Foundation | New York, New York | 2020/03/01 | 2020/06/01 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Engineering
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science Instruments Project Manager | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/04/01 | 2020/06/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Adaptive Optics Scientist / Engineer | W. M. Keck Observatory | Kamuela, HI | 2020/03/24 | 2020/04/23 | Accepting Applicants |
| Adaptive Optics Senior Software Engineer | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/03/14 | 2020/06/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Adaptive Optics Technical Project Manager | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/03/14 | 2020/06/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| M1 Control System Technical Project Manager | TMT International Observatory, LLC | Pasadena, CA | 2020/03/14 | 2020/06/14 | Accepting Applicants |
| Postbaccalaureate Positions in Instrument Modeling, Atmospheric Modeling, and Laboratory Studies with the NASA Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC) | Southeastern Universities Research Association | Washington, D.C, District of Columbia | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/09 | Accepting Applicants |
Science Management
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arecibo Science Manager | University of Central Florida | Orlando, Florida | 2020/03/24 | 2020/04/21 | Accepting Applicants |
| SKA Operations Scientist/SAFe® Product Manager | Square Kilometre Array Organisation | Macclesfield, Cheshire | 2020/03/20 | 2020/04/30 | No Status Given (Opted Out) |
| Data Analysis Team Manager - #0045700 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/03/19 | 2020/04/16 | Accepting Applicants |
Scientific/Technical Staff
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laboratory Associate in Organic and Isotopic Geochemistry at NASA/GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center | Washington, District of Columbia | 2020/03/26 | 2020/04/24 | Accepting Applicants |
| Spacecraft Command & Data Handling Engineer - #0044188 | Space Telescope Science Institute | Baltimore, MD | 2020/03/07 | 2020/04/06 | Accepting Applicants |
| Program Manager (Research Scientist), ALMA Regional Center node in the Netherlands (Allegro) | Leiden University | Leiden, Zuid-Holland | 2020/03/07 | 2020/04/05 | Accepting Applicants |
| Two postitions in High-Energy Astrophysics Instrumentation | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics | Garching, Bavaria | 2020/03/06 | 2020/05/04 | Accepting Applicants |
| Research Assistant | University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming | 2020/03/01 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Optical Scientist (Civil Servant) in the Exoplanet Technologies group at NASA Ames Research Center | NASA Ames Research Center | Moffet Field, CA | 2020/02/28 | 2020/04/03 | Accepting Applicants |
Other
| Title | Institution/Organization | Location | Posted | Deadline | Position Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical/Electronics Technician | AURA | Maui, Hawaii | 2020/04/02 | 2020/04/30 | Accepting Applicants |
| Summer Astrophysics and Astronomy Teaching Opportunities | Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth | Baltimore, MD | 2020/03/14 | 2020/05/29 | Accepting Applicants |
| Neighborhood Watch Survey - Research Intern | AURA | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2020/03/14 | 2020/04/11 | Accepting Applicants |
| Systems Engineer/ Project Manager | AURA | Hilo, Hawaii | 2020/03/13 | 2020/04/10 | Accepting Applicants |
| Systems Verification Engineer | AURA | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2020/03/12 | 2020/04/09 | Accepting Applicants |
| Observing Specialist | AURA | La Serena, Coquimbo | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/08 | Accepting Applicants |
| Kepler and K2 Training Materials Developer | NumFocus | Austin, TX | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/07 | Accepting Applicants |
| Lightkurve and Astropy Timeseries Software Developer | NumFocus | Austin, TX | 2020/03/10 | 2020/04/07 | Accepting Applicants |