NCRA-TIFR jobs for CEFIPRA Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Pune. Last Date to apply: 31 Oct 2018

CEFIPRA Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Modelling and Observing Pulsars

The National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR), India, is seeking a post-doctoral fellow to work on observational and theoretical aspects of Pulsar emission mechanisms. The position is funded by the CEFIPRA – Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR) project titled “Modelling and observing pulsars: from high energy to radio emission”.

The candidate has to have a PhD degree in astronomy, astrophysics, or a related discipline, or must be awaiting the award of the Ph.D. degree after submitting the doctoral thesis to a university. A strong background in analyzing and interpreting X-ray/gamma-ray observations of pulsars (e.g from instruments like XMM-Newton, Chandra, NuSTAR, Astrosat, Fermi) and/or expertise in numerical and computational aspects of relativistic plasma astrophysics will be given preference.

Qualification :

Junior Research Fellow (JRF) : Post Graduate Degree in Basic Science with NET qualification or Graduate Degree in Professional Course with NET qualification or Post Graduate Degree in Professional Course

Senior Research Fellow (SRF) : Qualification prescribed for JRF with two years of research experience

RA : Ph.D/MD/MS/MDS or equivalent degree or having 3 years of research teaching and design and development experience after MVSc/M.Pharm/ME/M.Tech with at least one research paper in Science Citation lndexed(SCl)journal

Fellowship :

JRF/SRF

First year :  Rs. 25,000+HRA

Second year :  Rs. 25,000+HRA

Third year :  Rs. 28,000+HRA

RA

First year :  Rs. 36,000+ HRA

Second year :  Rs. 38,000+ HRA

Third year :  Rs. 40,000+HRA