Assistant professor position in Astrophysics

The Research profile is Dynamics of astrophyical fluids

Localisation : Physics department of Ecole Normale Superieure.

Teaching activities : The assistant professor will participate to all teaching courses given at the physics department (both experimental and theoretical courses), at the master and agregation level. The assistant professor shall have a broad knowledge of physics in order to teach efficiently in all courses given at the Physics Department (FIP Formation Interuniversirtaire de Phyique at the undegraduate level) as well as Agregation. The assistant professor will participate to the teaching of astrophysics,helping the only prifessor in this domain at the physics department.

Research Profile : With the construction of the new generation of ground based and space born telescopes (opening of the THz window with the Herschel Space Observatory in 2008, Hyper Radio telescopes LOFAR, ALMA and SKA in 2010, 2012 and 2020, giant optical telescopes ELT, development of the gamma ray and neutrino astrophysics, etc.), it will be possible to quantitatively test scenarii of formation and evolution of astrophyical systems from the primordial time (inflation) to the present time, from the large scale structures of the Universe to the formation of planetary systems, from the role of gravitation at large scale to the small scale properties of reactive fluids. This broad perspective is triggering an active and competitive development of models in the world. The physics department is actively participating to this effort, with its center for intensive computing CEMAG dedicated to astrophysical fluid dynamics : the domains of interest range from the formation of the first luminous objects and galaxies to the formation of protostars and young stellar systems. The physics departement would like to reinforce this activity with the hiring of an assistant professor. The candidate shall propose an original research project, taking advantage of the resources of the physics department : accessible telescopes, computers (CEMAG), collaborations with other teams of the physics department (experimental and/or theoretical physics).

Contact persons Maryvonne Gerin, Head of the Laboratoire de Radioastronomie, maryvonne.gerin@ens.fr Jean-Marc Berroir, head of the preparation for the Agrégation, berroir@lpa.ens.fr

The application should be send to the following address by April 1st, midnight.