PhD in Astronomy and Machine Learning: Improving Gaia Parallaxes with Multi-Modal Neural Networks University of Southampton in United Kingdom

PhD opportunity in Astronomy/Astrophysics at the University of Southampton on Hunting for black holes in the galaxy . This project, supervised by Professor Poshak Gandhi , focuses on the birth, growth, evolution, and demographics of black holes in the Milky Way and beyond. You will analyse data from major survey facilities including Gaia , the Vera Rubin Observatory (LSST) , eROSITA/SRG , and VISTA/4MOST , with opportunities to work at the interface of observational and theoretical astrophysics....

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...

PhD opportunity in Astronomy / Astrophysics at the University of Southampton on obscured black hole growth , dust-obscured quasars, and the evolution of supermassive black holes across cosmic time. The project is based in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton and is supervised by Professor Manda Banerji . It focuses on a rapidly emerging population of heavily reddened quasars discovered with SPHEREx and uses new imaging and spectroscopic survey data to...

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton in astronomy / astrophysics / physics focused on what regulates star formation in distant galaxies . The project investigates how galactic winds driven by stars and supermassive black holes affect the gas that fuels star formation around 10 billion years ago . You will work with KMOS spectroscopy from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA observations of cold molecular gas, combining existing datasets with archival data and new observations. The res...

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...