POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: photometry of hot stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the photometric analysis of high resolution and wide field images acquired with the HST and ground based telescopes, in the UV and optical bands, for a sample of Galactic globular clusters. The aim is to fully characterize the hot stellar populations (in particular blue stragglers and hot horizontal branch stars), thus to better clarify their physical nature and their link with cluster internal dynamics.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: not later than May 1st 2013

* Duration: 2 years, renewable

  1. *Requirements: PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; large expertise in the

  2. analysis of high-resolution photometric data of resolved stellar sources in high-density

  3. stellar density environments.

  4. *All information: web site

  5. *English version: download the announcement


Selected candidate: Dr. Giuliana Fiorentino

POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: high-resolution spectroscopy in globular clusters

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the analysis of high resolution stellar spectra in a selected sample of globular clusters of the Milky Way, with the aim of measuring the radial velocity and chemical abundances of each star. This will also require the use of photometric datasets already acquired for the same targets at the major ground-based and space telescopes.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: January 1st 2013

  1. *Duration: 1 years, renewable

  2. *Requirements: Bachelor in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; large expertise in the

  3. analysis of high-resolution spectroscopic data of resolved stellar sources in high-density stellar density environments, for the measurement of kinemtaical and chemical parameters.

  4. *All information: web site

  5. *Italian version: download the announcement


Selected candidate: Loredana Lovisi

RESEARCH POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: multi-wavelength photometry and astrometry

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the data acquisition, data reduction and analysis, development of new procedures for data analysis, combination of large data-sets, within the context of the "Photometry Workpackage" of of the Cosmic-Lab project.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: October 14th 2011

  1. *Duration: 3 years

  2. *Requirements: PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics


Selected candidate: Dr. Emanuele Dalessandro

RESEARCH POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: optical and infrared spectroscopy

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the data acquisition, data reduction and analysis, development of new procedures for data analysis, combination of large data-sets, within the context of the "Spectroscopic Workpackage" of the Cosmic-Lab project.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: October 14th 2011

  1. *Duration: 3 years

  2. *Requirements: PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics


Selected candidate: Dr. Alessio Mucciarelli

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POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: analysis of HST data in the near-UV

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the analysis of high resolution photometric data of Galactic globular clusters acquired with the HST in the near-UV, with the aim of characterizing their populations of Blue Stragger Stars.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: September 1st 2012

  1. *Duration: 4 months

  2. *Requirements: PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics


Selected candidate: Dr. Rodrigo Contreras Ramos

POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Dynamics in Star Clusters: probing the origin of exotic populations

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the development and analysis of dynamical models and N-body numerical simulations for the interpretation of the observational data about the density and velocity dispersion profiles of globular clusters, as well as the radial distribution of their Blue Straggler populations.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: July 1st, 2012

* Duration: 1 year

  1. *Requirements: PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; large expertise in the

  2. field of dynamical modeling and direct N-body simulations


Selected candidate: Dr. Paolo Miocchi

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POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: stellar photometry in globular clusters

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the photometric analysis of high resolution and wide field images acquired with the HST and ground based telescopes, in the UV and optical bands, for a sample of globular clusters, in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds. The aim is to fully characterize the structural parameters of the clusters (by deriving their density profile and comparing it with dynamical King and Wilson models), and to study the properties of their peculiar stellar populations, like Blue Stragglers Stars (with the goal of clarifying their nature and their link with the cluster internal dynamics).

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: not later than Apr 1st 2013

* Duration: 1 year, renewable

  1. *Requirements: Bachelor in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; large expertise in the analysis of photometric data of resolved stellar sources in globular clusters

  2. *All information: web site

  3. *Italian version: download the announcement


Selected candidate: Dr. Edoardo Prospero La Gioia

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POST-DOC POSITION:

  1. *Title: Cosmic-Lab: optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars

  2. *Research activity: The research activity will consist in the photometric analysis of images acquired with the HST or the VLT in the central regions of Galactic globular clusters and in the Galactic field, with the aim of identifying the optical companions to binary millisecond pulsars. For the brightest objects, spectroscopic follow-ups will be planned and the acquired spectra will be analyzed, to determine the radial velocity curve and, where possible, the chemical composition of the companion stars. The goal of the project is the physical characterization of these still puzzling systems and of the link between their formation and evolutionary processes and globular cluster internal dynamics.

* Institution: Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna

* Starting date: not later than Feb 1st 2014

* Duration: 1 year, renewable

  1. *Requirements: Bachelor in Astronomy; PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics; large expertise in the analysis of photometric data of resolved stellar sources in globular clusters

  2. *All information: web site

  3. *Italian version: download the announcement


Selected candidate: Dr. Cristina Pallanca