Chandrasekhar Post-Doctoral Fellowships at Indian Institute of Astrophysics
What is this all about?
The Director, IIA invites applications from exceptionally bright candidates with outstanding academic credentials for the award of 'Chandrasekhar Post-Doctoral Fellowships' in all areas of astronomy and astrophysics.
Research Areas
SUN AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Structure and dynamics of the solar atmosphere, activity, variability, transient phenomena, radio emission, planets and
comets.
STELLAR AND GALACTIC ASTRONOMY
Formation and evolution of stars, brown dwarfs and exoplanets, stellar atmospheres, star clusters, stellar variability, novae and supernovae, circumstellar and interstellar matter, planetary nebulae.
HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS
Star formation in galaxies, activity in galaxies, gamma-ray brusts.
THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS AND RELATED PHYSICS
Magnetohydrodynamics and radiative processes in astrophysical objects, black holes, pulsars, structure and dynamics
of galaxies, relativity, cosmology, atomic and molecular physics.
INSTRUMENTATION
UV Imaging Telescope for the Indian Astronomy Satellite (ASTROSAT), backend instruments for the various observing
facilities, charge coupled devices, adaptive and active optics, astronomy related electronics.
Facilities
KODAIKANAL OBSERVATORY
Solar Tunnel Telescope; Backend instruments:high dispersion spectrograph, spectroheliograph and full disc CCD imagers
GAURIBIDANUR RADIO OBSERVATORY
Decameter Wave Radio Telescope; Backend instruments: Radioheliograph and Radio spectrograph
VAINU BAPPU OBSERVATORY, KAVALUR
2.34 m Vainu Bappu Telescope and 1 m Carl-Zeiss Telescope; Backend instruments: CCD imagers, low and medium
resolution spectrographs, high resolution echelle spectrograph, polarimeter, speckle interferometer
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, HOSAKOTE
Remote operations facility for the 2 m HCT, laboratories for experimental physics and space sciences
INDIAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY, HANLE
2 m remotely operated Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT); Backend instruments: optical CCD imager, Hanle Faint
Object Spectrograph Camera (HFOSC) and Near Infrared Imager High Altitude Gamma Ray (HAGAR) Telescope Array
LIBRARY AND COMPUTING FACILITIES
Modern, well-stocked library, state of the art computing facilities, data centre and high speed internet at Bangalore and the field stations. The Institute is a member of C-DAC's grid computing project with access to a large number of supercomputers in different parts of the country.
The Institute has plans to set up a 2 m class solar telescope at a high altitude site and develop a space coronagraph.
Fellowship/Salaray
The fellowship is for a period of two years with a possibility of an extension for one more year. Candidates should be ordinarily below the
age of 32 years. The monthly stipend is Rs.25,000/- for candidates with up to 2 years post-doctoral experience and Rs.30,000/- for those with more than 2 years experience. Chandra Fellows would be entitled to an annual contingency grant of Rs.1,00,000/-, as well as to housing, medical and other benefits in accordance with the rules of the institute. Travel support by economy air fare will be available at the time of taking up the assignment. Chandra Fellows may choose their own research topics or collaborate with groups or individuals in the institute.
Applications and Selection
Application may be submitted any time of the year by E-mail: pdf_chandra@iiap.res.in along with a curriculum vitae, list of publications, research proposal and names and addresses of five referees. Processing of the applications takes about three months.
Submission deadline: Applications can be submitted any time of the year
Website Details: http://www.iia.res.in/
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