Post-doctoral position in Astrophysics at
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille

 
The Euro3D Research Training Network of the European Community is dedicated to the promotion and development of  Integral Field Spectroscopy in Europe through the recruitment and training of post-doctoral fellow in the participating institutes.
In this framework, the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille will host one of these fellowship.
The successful candidate will be part of the 'Observational Cosmology' team of the institute. The position is for two years and can be opened as soon as September 2002.

The main research axes developped in the team are :

The team is leading the VIRMOS project, a powerful multi-object and Integral Field spectrograph that is currently being installed on the ESO Very Large Telescope.  The VIRMOS consortium, under the team responsability, is conducting the VLT-VIRMOS Deep Survey, based on 120 night of Virmos Time, who will produce spectra for about 150,000 galaxies, and photometric data on more than 3 million objects.
The team is also participating in the NGST and SNAP projects, both integrating an IFS.
 

For further information, please contact :

Dr Vincent Le Brun
LAM
BP. 8
13376 Marseille CEDEX 12
France
email :  vincent.lebrun@astrsp-mrs.fr
Tel : 33 4 91 05 69 78