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Astronomical Research at Durham
Durham University is one of the UK's leading centres for astronomical
research with world-class groups working in a wide range of fields
covering the observational, theoretical and instrumentation aspects of
astronomy.
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| 14 Feb 2013: | Durham researchers join the
CUGA consortium with the
aim of combining dishes at Goonhilly
Earth Station with the eMERLIN
radio interferometer to undertake a sensitive radio continuum survey of
the COSMOS field.
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| 13 Feb 2013: | Black Holes and Star Formation: A Herschel Perspective Press release
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| 31 Jan 2013: | ALMA Cycle 0 study of submm galaxies from the LESS survey accepted for
publication in MNRAS (pre-print here.
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| 28 Nov 2012: | First paper from the SCUBA-2 Cosmology Legacy
Survey submitted (pre-print here.
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| 20 Nov 2012: | Durham researchers lead four "high-priority" ALMA Cycle 1
science programmes. Full results here.
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| 12 June 2012: | World's largest ground-based telescope is given 'go ahead'. Press release
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| 9 June 2012: | HST cycle 20 awards |
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Lectureship in Observational Astronomy
The Astronomy Group at Durham University invites applications for a
Lectureship in observational Astronomy. The position will begin in the Fall
of 2013 or thereafter. The successful applicant will have research
experience which complements and strengthens existing areas of research
within the observational extragalactic astronomy group. The lecturer will
be expected to engage in research, postgraduate student supervision and
undergraduate teaching. The post will be advertised through the AAS Jobs
Register and the Durham University Job Vacancy website (www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/) from March 2013.
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Postgraduate Research Opportunities
We are seeking graduate students to undertake research within our PhD and
MSc programmes from October 2013. We have 1 ERC, 1 Charm, and 8 STFC fully-funded studentships for
3.5-4 year PhD degrees. In addition we will also consider students
with self-funding or with funding from different sources;
Students will undertake full-time (or part-time) cutting edge astronomical
research and instrumentation.
Applicants are required to have, or expected to gain, a 1st in a 3-year
undergraduate degree, or at least a 2:1 in a 4-year undergraduate degree,
or at least a pass in an MSc postgraduate degree,
in physics, astrophysics or mathematics.
More details on the available
research programmes, application procedure, and eligibilty can be obtained
from here.
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Durham was ranked Number One in Europe and fourth in the world for our
research into Space Science (which covers research into astronomy and
astrophysics) over the decade 1998-2008, according to the most recent league
table from Thomson Reuters ESI.
There are 28 academic staff across the combined astronomy groups, with over
100 postdocs, postgraduate students and support and technical staff involved
in astronomy research. The majority of our astronomical research is
undertaken in the following groups:
- Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology Group
- Institute for Computational Cosmology
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- Centre for Advanced Instrumentation
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- High-Energy Astrophysics Group
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Contact Details
Department of Physics,
Durham University,
South Road,
Durham DH1 3LE
Tel: 44 (0)191 3343635
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