| Job Title: Faculty positions at IUCAA for Gravitational Wave research Job Category(s) : Faculty Member Job Description : The LIGO-India project received approval from the Union Cabinet of India last year. The detector is expected to start science runs by 2030 and promises a massive boost in science and technology. IUCAA, being one of the four lead institutions for executing the project, was given several faculty positions for gravitational wave (GW) science and instrumentation by the University Grants Commission (UGC). If you know any suitable and enthusiastic candidates for those positions, we request you to please send their contact details to us and encourage the candidates to apply. Also, please feel free to forward this mail to your colleagues to spread the word about focused faculty openings at IUCAA. IUCAA is a premier autonomous research institution set up by the UGC to promote astronomy and astrophysics in Indian colleges and universities. This is accomplished through an active associateship program and by conducting schools and workshops across the country. IUCAA is also actively engaged in science popularization. Current research activities at IUCAA span a wide range, including Classical and Quantum Gravity, Cosmology, Formation and Evolution of Galaxies, Active Galactic Nuclei, High Energy Astrophysics, Diffuse Matter in Space, Cosmic Magnetic Fields, Solar Physics, Astronomy at X-ray/UV/Optical/Radio wavelengths, Gravitational Wave Physics, Quantum technology, and Instrumentation. Besides LIGO-India, IUCAA is actively involved in several leading national and international science projects, including the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Southern African Large Telescope, India's space-based multi-wavelength observatory AstroSat, the Aditya-L1 Solar mission and several others. IUCAA is a major stakeholder in the LIGO-India project, not only for science but also for building and running the observatory. IUCAA has been prominently involved in GW research for more than three decades. At present, there are three functional GW instrumentation laboratories engaged in training & research, and we are keen to increase the instrumentation R&D activities. In order to boost this effort, a new building has been constructed, which has designated laboratories for GW research. LIGO-India, being a multi-disciplinary mega-science project, offers enormous opportunities for collaboration among national and international institutions and universities in a wide range of fields. It involves exciting, cutting-edge technologies, such as quantum metrology, cryogenics, optics, advanced optical coating technologies, and many more. IUCAA faculty members are expected to play lead roles in core activities of the LIGO-India project and foster collaborations with academic and research institutions and universities. Application deadline : N/A Institutional URL with the announcement : https://www.iucaa.in/en/other-info/faculty-opening Announcement Brochure/Poster : N/A Name of the Contact Person : Sanjit Mitra Affiliation of the Contact Person : IUCAA, Pune, India Email of the Contact Person : sanjit@iucaa.in Other Remarks : This is a rolling advertisement. |