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The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) expects to award
one or more ETH Zwicky Prize Fellowships in Astrophysics. The
Fellowships will be awarded to outstanding researchers in any area of
astrophysics who have usually received their PhD within the last four
years. The Fellowships are normally awarded for three years, but may be
extended to up to six years.
The Fellowships will be held at the Institute
for Astronomy in the
Department of Physics. The Institute has active research groups in
extragalactic astrophysics, observational cosmology, star- and planet-
formation, and stellar astrophysics. The institute has close
ties with astrophysicists at the University of Zurich and with other
physicists elsewhere in the ETH Department of Physics.
The Zwicky
Fellows are expected to carry out independent research and
to contribute to the intellectual life of the Institute. Opportunities
exist for co-supervision of students at all levels.
Switzerland is a
full member of ESO and ESA, and Fellows have access to all their
observational facilities. The ETH Astrophysics group has guaranteed
access to a network of workstations and a large fast-connection Beowulf
cluster. The Institute also has competitive access to the Cray XT, IBM
and other supercomputers of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center
(CSCS).
Zwicky Fellows
have a personal research fund of
CHF 15,000 (about USD
14,400) per year. The salary will be approximately CHF 83,200-91,700 (USD 80,000-88,000) depending on experience.
Applications
are invited from all nationalities and should consist of a
CV, publication list, and brief descriptions of past and proposed
research and should not exceed 10 pages in total length. These should
be sent electronically (in a single pdf file) to
eth-astro-zwicky@phys.ethz.ch so as to arrive by Tuesday,
December 1,
2009. Three letters of reference should be sent, directly by the
referees, to the same email-address with the same deadline.
For more
details on the current research
interests of the Institute,
please see
http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch.
Interested
candidates are
invited to contact Proff. Carollo, Lilly or Meyer for further
information.
The
Zwicky competition is formally advertised in the October
and November
AAS Job register.
General
information on the Zwicky Program
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