Luigi Bedin, aka Rolly, offers PhD positions in Physic-Astronomy @ University of PADOVA and @ University of FERRARA for a 3 (max 4) years duration to young scientists willing to learn and publish exiting results. Various topics: stellar populations / white dwarfs / brown dwarfs / low main sequence stars / exo-planets / binaries and more.

Observational projects and techniques: Astrometry/Photometry/Spectroscopy

Theoretical projects: Stellar kinematics and dynamics, stellar atmospheres of brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, and preparatory studies for JWST

Bedin is Principal Investigator (PI) of three large programs (and of several other normal size projects) with Hubble Space Telescope (HST, hundreds of orbits in total) and Co-Investigator in other HST programs (among which other 3 large programs).

http://www.stsci.edu/hst/observing/program-information (PI: Bedin)

Two of these HST large programs are multy-cycles (GO-15491, GO-15096, GO-14662, GO-14118) and were recently financed with PRIN-MIUR-2017 with Bedin as National Coordinator (approved April 2019, ranking, document, program ID: PRIN-MIUR ID 2017Z2HSMF.

Note:

- 75% of the HST data were already collected so far, and the remaining 25% will before August 2020.

- PhD, possibility of a training period up to 1.5yr abroad, staging for up to 1.5yr@: USA-STScI/UCSD/Tucson,UK-JLMU

NOW OPENED: 1 PhD fellowship position @ Univ. of Ferrara, Italy, PhD working @ the Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy

Selection application forms, together with all documents required, must be submitted electronically using only the procedure available on the platform PICA before July 26th, 2019, h. 12,00 (Italian time).

It is fundamental candidates make sure to mark the box specifying the grant they are applying to:

"Exploiting the Deepest Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Galactic Globular Clusters"; financed by INAF – Astronomic Observatory of Padova

Further instructions (in English too) at these urls:

http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/modulistica/concorsi/ciclo-35/4_physics/at_download/file

http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/modulistica/concorsi/ciclo-35/notice_35/at_download/file

http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/modulistica/concorsi/ciclo-35/ciclo-35-help-eng/at_download/file

www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/concorsi/selection

http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/physics

Please drop me few lines if you intend to apply, or, whether you would need any further information.

Thank you for the kind attention

Rolly

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OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA (Astronomical Observatory of Padova)

ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA (National Institute for Astrophysics)

Luigi Rolly BEDIN (tenure staff: Astronomer)

email: luigi.bedin@inaf.it

address: Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I - 35122 PADOVA-ITALY

TEL. +39-0498293413

FAX. +39-0498759840

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