PhD and Postdoc positions at CEFCA

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Dear all,

As some of you already know, I will be moving to CEFCA [1] (Centro de 
Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón, Teruel, Spain) soon to start a 
Tenure Track research position there.

CEFCA is managing the nearby Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre 
(OAJ) facilities which have some pretty exciting and ambitious projects 
like J-PLUS[2] and J-PAS[3] to map the northern sky in narrow-bands. 
Such that J-PAS (now in later commissioning phase) will ultimately cover 
8000 deg^2 in 56 spectrally-contiguous narrow-band filters [4], 
effectively becoming a low-spectral-resolution IFU over the northern sky 
with a wonderful discovery potential of strong emission-line 
objects/features (that are missed in surveys like LSST, Euclid and etc).

CEFCA has recently opened two 4-year PhD positions (fully funded in 
whole period) [5] and one 3-year Postdoc position [6]. The list of 
offered PhD research topics is available in [5] just above the 
"Evaluation process".

I have proposed one of the PhD projects (on the emission-line features 
of the circum-galactic medium, CGM, in the local Universe using J-PLUS 
DR2). The project will involve a fair share of NoiseChisel (and Gnuastro 
in general, hence the reason for sending to this mailing list) to detect 
and study the diffuse circum-calactic environment in H-alpha, H-delta, 
OII and OIII over 2200 deg^2 of the northern sky as part of J-PLUS DR2. 
See the description of the research project for more.

J-PLUS and J-PAS are large international collaborations, allowing the 
student to actively participate and create a strong scientific network. 
Furthermore, CEFCA is also a member of the European Space Agency's 
Euclid mission [7] (providing g-band, ground-based imaging in the 
northern sky) and our team is also actively participating in several 
Euclid operating units (OUs) and Science Working Groups (SWGs). So while 
the student's primary/main goal will be on the emission line features of 
the CGM with J-PLUS, s/he will also have the opportunity to join those 
discussions/meetings.

If you know any finishing M.Sc students that would be interested to join 
my team at CEFCA (which also includes Dr. Raúl Infante-Sainz as a 
postdoc, a professional of the LSB universe and techniques), please 
forward this email to them and encourage them to apply (we are building 
a strong team and look for good applicants that aren't afraid of 
tackling large problems).

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Mohammad

[1] http://www.cefca.es
[2] http://www.j-plus.es
[3] http://www.j-pas.org
[4] http://www.j-pas.org/survey
[5] http://www.cefca.es/cefca_en/reference_0091
[6] http://www.cefca.es/cefca_en/reference_0089
[7] https://sci.esa.int/web/euclid