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Job Possibilities in Astronomy

Job Possibilities in Astronomy. Harald Kuntschner ST-ECF. ESO job-hunting survey. Q: How did you get to (do you plan to) hear about your 1 st post-doc?. Ph.-D.’s are important (Gibson et al. 1999, astro-ph/9904229). # Ph.-D.’s remaining active: 55-75% overall

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Job Possibilities in Astronomy

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  1. Job Possibilities in Astronomy Harald Kuntschner ST-ECF

  2. ESO job-hunting survey Q: How did you get to (do you plan to) hear about your 1st post-doc?

  3. Ph.-D.’s are important(Gibson et al. 1999, astro-ph/9904229) # Ph.-D.’s remaining active: 55-75% overall up to ~80% for “prestigious” institutes only ~50% for “non-prestigious” programs (Trimble, 1991) Within 10yrs of Ph.-D. … recipe for success? 45% permanent 20% “soft-money” 35% quit research

  4. Recipe for success for Ph.-D. (1) Investigate past history of school/supervisor (2) Know what’s “Hot” (3) Get experience writing grants (and proposals!) (4) Be sure to network (5) Avoid excessive observing (6) Be wary of undertaking Ph-Ds in very large teams (7) Move institutes for your Ph-D and PDF, and be prepared to emigrate (8) Be aware of the competition

  5. WWW Job Hunting Astronomical Societies: Americam Astronomical Society (AAS): http://members.aas.org/JobReg/Jobregister.cfm European Astronomical Society (EAS): http://www2.iap.fr/eas/index.html Royal Astronomical Society (RAS): http://www.ras.org.uk Fellowship/Studentship Programmes: Chandra: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows ESO: http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant Marie-Curie: http://www.mariecurie.org/ PPARC: http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Rs/Fs/Fw/Fellindex.asp and http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Pg/Stu/studentships.asp STSci: http://www.stsci.edu/institute/sd/postdocs Some specific Institutes/Observatories/Organisations: Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS):http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/Post_doc_2006/default.htm European Southern Observatory (ESO): http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/adm/pers/vacant/ European Space Agency (ESA): http://www.esa.int/hr/vn.htm Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC): http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/admin/employment/ Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (PPARC): http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Ap/Rc/Vacnt/Vacancies.asp Science Magazines: Nature: http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/ New Scientist: http://www.newscientistjobs.com/ WARNING : This list is be no means complete

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