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Post-doctoral position in the Stellar Department
26. January 2012

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in the Stellar Department. The successful applicant will work with Dr. Adela Kawka and Dr. Stephane Vennes on the spectral energy distribution of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars. The applicant should have experience with observations, data reduction and data analysis of infrared, optical and/or ultraviolet data and have good programming skills.

The Stellar Department of the Astronomical Institute is located on the observatory site in Ondrejov, which is situated approximately 30 km south-east of Prague. The stellar department operates a 2m telescope with a coude spectrograph, which is suitable for studies of bright objects (B stars, hot subdwarfs). Czech Republic is a member state of both ESO and ESA, and have access to ESO facilities. Members of the department have been successful in obtaining time on 2, 4 and 8m class telescopes at ESO.

The department includes about a dozen active researchers, with a total of 70 scientists working at the Astronomical Insititute. The department offers excellent computing facilitities, running under Linux, and including data reduction programmes such as IRAF. Institute accomodation in Ondrejov will be offered to the successful candidate.

The position is for 10 months. The salary will be based on the standard domestic scale. The starting date is expected to be early March 2012. Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, including a list of publications and research interests and arrange to have two letters of support sent by email to Adela Kawka (kawka@sunstel.asu.cas.cz) with a copy to Petr Heinzel (pheinzel@asu.cas.cz) or send to:

Adela Kawka
Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Fricova 298
251 65 Ondrejov
Czech Republic

The closing date for applications is 27th February 2012.

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