PI: prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Pollo

Application deadline: 2024-12-10

Start Date: 2025-01-01 (flexible)

Location: Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warsaw

The Astrophysics Division of the NCBJ's Department of Fundamental Research is dedicated to research in astrophysics and astronomy, mainly their observational aspects. The Department employs 19 staff members, including eight foreigners, at the rank of Assistant Professor and above. 9 PhD students from the Department of Astrophysics are being trained at the Doctoral School of the NCBJ and IChTJ. The Department of Astrophysics offers an active research environment of the highest international standards.

2-year post-doc position in observational astrophysics in the Astrophysics Department of National Centre of Nuclear Research.

The employment is financed by project MAESTRO No 2023/50/A/ST9/00579 “Barely Visible: Low Surface Brightness Universe in the LSST era,” led by Prof. Agnieszka Pollo. (agnieszka.pollo@ncbj.gov.pl).

Description of tasks:

• Working in a research team under the supervision of the PI and senior co-Is on tasks related to the implementation of the grant
• Analysis of the observational data, interpretation of the results, preparing publications and conference presentations regarding the results obtained in the project and promotion research results
• Participation in the scientific life of the Astrophysics Division - participating in meetings, seminars co-organsation of workshop, conferences and other activities
• (Co)-Supervision and providing support to the PhD and undergraduate students working in the project
• Studies of clustering properties, stellar and halo masses of low surface brightness galaxy population and investigating the dependence of their properties on the local environment.
• Development of dedicated MCF and HOD codes.
• Development of cosmological applications and interpretation.
• Active participation in the corresponding LSST science collaborations.

Requirements for the candidate:

• Ph.D. in physics, astrophysics, astroinformatics or equivalent (obtained no earlier than in 2017 and no later than fall 2024)
• Documented research experience (publications, conference talks, etc.) in the field of observational astrophysics
• Fluent English spoken and written

Additional assets:

• Documented experience in the analysis of big astronomical data
• Documented experience in statistical data analysis, in particular in the area of galaxy clustering
• Documented experience in studies of low surface brightness galaxies

We offer:

• Participation in large international science collaborations, in particular the LSST
• Employment in one of the largest research Institute in Poland
• Good learning environment. Support of an experienced team
• External and internal trainings in hard and soft skills as well as participation in conferences
• A chance to make ones’ own mark by participation in the creation of a interesting and ambitious projects
• Work in Polish and international networks with research institutes and industrial companies

Required documents:

• Curriculum Vitae
• A research statement
• Full publication list
• A scan/ copy of degree diploma
• The applicant should arrange for at minimum two letters of recommendation to be sent directly to dorota.dobrowolska@ncbj.gov.pl; the subject of e-mails should be "adiunkt MAESTRO 2" and a name and surname of the candidate, the same as given by the Candidate when submitting other documents.

Contact: prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Pollo, e-mail: agnieszka.pollo@ncbj.gov.pl

Apply: Applications in electronic form should be submitted in English to: Dorota.Dobrowolska@ncbj.gov.pl
Email subject should contain "adiunkt MAESTRO 2" and the name and surname of the candidate.

Funding: NCN MAESTRO - Barely Visible

For the official announcement CLICK HERE

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Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Agnieszka Pollo

Co-supervisor: dr Anna Durkalec

Application deadline: 2024-12-14

Start Date: 2025-02

Location: Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warsaw

Description:

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will be the benchmark for the next decade, providing unprecedented depth and quality optical data on millions of galaxies, including low and high surface brightness galaxies (LSBGs and HSBGs, respectively). This PhD project focuses on the analysis of the identified LBGs, i.e. galaxies that are very diffuse and fainter than the typical night sky, and their location in the cosmic web, using the LSST data. The main goal of the project will be to study the relations between LSBGs and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe aiming to understand how the LSBGs are linked with the underlying dark matter field. Different approaches will be used, including clustering analysis (correlation functions, cross-correlations, marked statistics), as well as local density measurements. This approach can be then extended towards the theoretical interpretation of the results in the context of different cosmological and dark matter models.

This PhD project will be conducted as part of the NCN MAESTRO project “ Barely Visible: Low Surface Brightness Universe in the LSST era,” led by Prof. Agnieszka Pollo.

Our team is an active member of the LSST collaboration and will have access to early data releases at the beginning of 2027. In our team we have experts in LSBGs, galaxy morphology, SED fitting, machine learning, and galaxy clustering. Therefore, this PhD project offers a unique opportunity to gain expertise in all these aspects. The results of this research will provide essential insights into the nature of very faint galaxies and their role in galaxy formation and evolution scenarios.

Funding: NCN MAESTRO - Barely Visible

For the official announcement CLICK HERE