We invite applications for the 2025 Joint DiRAC Fellowship and Baum Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovative Astronomy in the University of Washington’s Astronomy Department. These up to 3-year postdoctoral positions are available to promising early-career scientists who are ready to engage in self-directed research that complements the work done at UW’s Institute for Data-Intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology (DiRAC). Active areas include: Transients and Variable Star Science, Solar System Science, Milky Way Structure, Extragalactic Science, Cosmology, and Astronomical Software Development.
Applicants with innovative research programs involving early science with Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) are especially encouraged to apply.
DiRAC’s mission is to expand the frontiers of astrophysics enabled by breakthroughs in large surveys, data-intensive algorithms, and software. The Institute comprises seven faculty and senior fellows, and over 30 postdoctoral researchers, research scientists, software engineers, and graduate students. DiRAC leads the construction of Rubin Observatory’s time domain and solar system processing pipelines and is a founding Hub of LINCC, the LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Computing and Collaboration.
Applications are due by December 31, 2024. Please direct questions to Jim Davenport ([email protected]).