Assistant Professor Big Data Astronomy - Nijmegen, Nederland - Radboud University

Beschrijving

We are looking for an assistant professor on the topic 'Big Data Astronomy'.

Modern instruments and observatories produce huge amounts of astronomical data. Advanced analysis methods are needed to be able to simulate, process and analyse this data.

The Radboud group has privileged access to data and has leading roles in data processing as well as numerical analysis for projects such as the Event Horizon Telescope, the Africa Millimetre Telescope, the BlackGEM telescopes, gravitational wave observatories, the Pierre Auger Observatory for cosmic rays and the LOFAR radio telescope as well as SKA in the future.

To fully understand this data, complex numerical simulations and machine learning techniques are increasingly required.

The Radboud astrophysics group has extensive expertise, for example in star and stellar-population models; machine-learning techniques for the extraction of outliers and trends in multidimensional data; relativistic plasma simulations for the interpretation of observations of supermassive black holes and simulations of the particle avalanches forming in the Earth's atmosphere, created by high energy cosmic rays.

Processing the observational data, the accompanying numerical simulations and machine learning techniques requires special resources.

This is a major challenge for the future, in which new methods must be developed to enable these complex operations, while at the same time significantly reducing the associated CO2 emissions.

As an Assistant Professor of Big Data Astronomy, you will build your own research line and you will be expected to contribute to any of the exciting goals above and encouraged to intensify the connections between the departments of Astrophysics and Computer Science at Radboud University.

Therefore you ill also play your part in the organisation and management activities related to IMAPP science's research and education programmes and should have the ambition to create societal impact.

In your role, you should be able to teach a broad range of courses in astronomy and physics and you will be expected to teach in Dutch (Dutch language level B2).

During a three-year transition period, teaching in English will be possible.