The Department of Physics seeks to appoint three Research Fellows to work within the project “Cosmochronology within the stellar neighbourhood: Leaving no star and planet behind”.
The position is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant held by Professor Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, and the candidate will join an existing team of PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers.
The project will exploit Gaia Data Release 3, multi-object spectroscopic follow-ups and state-of-the-art models to understand the ages and evolution history of white dwarfs and stars.
The project will be focused on one or more of these different branches: 1) the preparation of the spectroscopic follow-up of all stars within 100 pc as part of the 4MOST consortium, 2) the observational follow-up and characterisation of Gaia DR3 white dwarf candidates, including exotic sub-classes of white dwarfs with magnetic line emission or evolved planetary systems, as well as volume complete statistics, 3) the follow-up of compact white dwarf binaries in the 100 pc sample and the search for SN Ia progenitors.
We are looking for someone with a PhD in Physics, a proven track record (published first author papers) of research in white dwarfs, and experience in spectroscopy and photometry, or in the models related to the fitting of these data.