Positions in connection with a Project on Astrophysical Dynamos and beyond

The European Research Council has decided to fund a concentrated 5-year effort at Nordita in Stockholm to improve our understanding of astrophysical dynamos. For details, see the project page on Astrophysical Dynamos. In connection with this 5-year project several positions will become available.

4 PhD positions (4 years, plus another one to be filled in 2012)

4 post-doc positions (2 years, 2 to be filled in 2009, and one in 2011)

1 Assistant Professor (4 years, with the possibility of a 5th year)

several visiting professorships

All these positions are supported by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council.

We are in the process of recruiting 4 PhD students, 2 post-docs, and 1 assistant professor (forskarassistent), who are expected to take up their positions in the spring of 2009.

The research in the group will focus on improving our understanding of the solar dynamo. This involves work on a number of topics including

  • Turbulent dynamo action in spherical shells
  • The formation of active regions, sunspots, and coronal mass ejections from dynamo-generated magnetic fields
  • The ejection of dynamo-generated small-scale magnetic helicity in coronal mass ejections
  • Magnetic helicity fluxes and turbulent transport coefficients in hydromagnetic turbulence.
  • Dynamos from magneto-rotational and magnetic buoyancy instabilities
  • Dynamos from deep convection with tachocline
  • Solar cycle models and forecasts
  • Applications to galactic and laboratory dynamos

    The successful candidates for the PhD and post-doc positions will work under the supervision of Professor Axel Brandenburg and the assistant professor to be recruited at Nordita. Nordita provides an active research environment with an extensive visitors program, conferences and schools organized by or in collaboration with Nordita staff. The PhD students working within this project will be formally enrolled at Stockholm University within the Department of Astronomy, but they will have their offices in one of the Nordita buildings. The positions start on 1 February 2009, or any other date to be agreed upon.

    Depending on the position, the applications should include a curriculum vitae together with a list of publications, 2 letters of recommendation, as well as a list of courses with grades (for the PhD positions) or a research plan (for the post-doc positions). The application deadline is December 10, 2008 (or 15 January 2009 for the Assistant Professor), and applications should be filed though our web interface http://apps.nordita.org/. In exceptional cases, you may also send you application via e-mail to brandenb@nordita.org, or send it to

    Axel Brandenburg
    Nordita
    Roslagstullsbacken 23
    10691 Stockholm
    Sweden

  • Links to project page: http://www.nordita.org/~brandenb/AstroDyn/
  • Posters for: (i) PhD positions, (ii) post-doc positions, (iii) assistant professor.
  • Other positions: (i) postdoc-2020, (ii) postdoc-2021,

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