PhD position: Placing the Local Group in a cosmological context University of Groningen in Netherlands

PhD project: Placing the Local Group in a cosmological context This doctoral project examines how the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and their satellite galaxies formed and evolved. The research is situated at the intersection of Galactic Archaeology, galaxy formation, and cosmology, using the fossil record preserved in stars to reconstruct the assembly history of the Local Group. The PhD researcher will co-develop a sophisticated suite of cosmological models of Local Group galaxies. Using newly ge...

Two postdoctoral positions are open at the Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique Théorique (LAPTh) in Annecy, France, within the ADACSI project (Accelerating Discoveries in Astrophysics and Cosmology with Simulation-based Inference). The project is funded by the Multidisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence (MIAI) through an AIforScience Research Chair. The research combines astrophysics , cosmology , large-scale structure , gamma-ray astrophysics , simulation-based inference , machine lear...

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...

Two postdoctoral fellow positions are open in Astrophysics at the Division of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Lund University in Sweden . The successful candidates will join Prof. Oscar Agertz and the galaxy formation group to work on research in numerical simulations , galaxy formation and evolution , star formation , extragalactic astronomy , and related computational astrophysics topics. The research environment includes access to substantial computational resources at national supercomp...

This PhD project sits within Lund University’s long-standing involvement in the 4MOST spectroscopic survey and focuses on Galactic archaeology . The doctoral student will work with spectroscopic observations of stars in the Milky Way to investigate the origins of the Galaxy and how its stellar populations formed and evolved. The position is based in the research environment at Lund University, where several researchers play leading roles in 4MOST surveys and in the working groups that analyse th...