Graduate Positions in Astronomy University of Victoria in Canada

The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto is inviting applications for the Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships, a research-focused postdoctoral opportunity in astronomy and astrophysics. Fellows are expected to pursue an original research programme, independently or in collaboration with researchers at the University of Toronto, with emphasis on innovative work in instrumentation, software, and/or observations. The fellowships are embedded in a strong astronomy...

Canadian SKA Scientist Program — postdoctoral positions in astronomy and astrophysics at Canadian universities. The Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada, is funding up to two fixed-term positions in 2026 for early-career researchers to conduct independent research and contribute directly to SKA science . The program supports work on the Square Kilometre Array and its pathfinders, with a strong emphasis on innovative instrumentation, technology,...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in astrophysics and observational astronomy, focused on changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the evolution of supermassive black holes . The project asks why some black holes appear to change dramatically over just months, challenging current ideas about accretion and black-hole growth. The successful candidate will collate a uniform sample of changing-look AGN using major surveys such as SPHEREx, WISE, Euclid, and eROSITA , then measure...

Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA) at the University of Turku is inviting applications for a three-year postdoctoral researcher / senior researcher fixed-term position in astronomy, astrophysics, physics , and multi-messenger astronomy . The project is part of the ERC-funded BlackHolistic initiative, which aims to create colour movies of black holes and study their astrophysics across scales. The work focuses on the physics of relativistic jets launched from accreting supermassive bla...

Postdoctoral position in microwave polarization analysis with FYST / CCAT at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (Germany). This 4-year postdoc is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project NewPhysCMB (Finding New Physics from the Polarized Light of the Cosmic Microwave Background). The project focuses on cosmological parity violation, especially cosmic birefringence, using improved measurements of CMB polarization parity-odd correlations (TB, EB) from existing and upcoming experiments togethe...