YALE UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship

Submit Applications To:

Attention: Pamela Bosward, Executive Assistant to the Chair, YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee Yale University, Department of Physics P.O. Box 208120 New Haven, CT 06520-8120 USA

Tel: 203-432-3651

Fax: 203-432-8552

URL1: http://www.yale.edu/physics

(Yale University, Department of Physics)

URL2: http://www.yale.edu/ycaa

(Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics)

URL3: http://www.astro.yale.edu

(Department of Astronomy)

Email Submission Address: Email Inquiries: "> . The closing date for receipt of applications: 11/08/2009

The Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics invites applications for the YCAA Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Astronomy and Astrophysics, to be awarded to a young scientist of exceptional ability who will have received her/his Ph.D. by June 2010 in observational, theoretical, or experimental astronomy or astrophysics/cosmology. The Fellowship is for three years (renewed annually subject to performance), and offers competitive salary ($60,000), benefits, and research funds.

Conveniently located between New York City and Boston, Yale offers a lively intellectual environment and access to world-class astronomical facilities, including the Keck, WIYN and SMARTS telescopes, and to Chilean telescopes through collaboration with the Univ. de Chile, as well as High-Performance Computing facilities. The YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellow will be free to carry out his/her own research program, although preference will be given to research interests that align with those of the Yale astrophysics faculty (see www.yale.edu/ycaa/membership.html ). Active research at Yale includes solar astrophysics, nuclear astrophysics, astrometry, star formation, stellar evolution, galactic structure, black holes, local group galaxies, high-energy astrophysics, multiwavelength surveys (QUEST, GOODS, COSMOS, MUSYC, SDSS), active galaxies and blazars, galaxy evolution, galaxy clusters, large-scale structure, gravitational lensing, dark matter, dark energy, and cosmology.

Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, bibliography, and a brief description of the anticipated research program by November 8, 2009 to the address above. Email submission as a pdf is strongly preferred. Candidates should also arrange for at least 3 letters of recommendation to arrive by November 8. Fellowship candidates will automatically be considered for any open postdoctoral positions at Yale in their fields of interest, unless they ask to be considered only for the YCAA Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship. Yale is an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer, and we particularly encourage applications from women and members of minority groups.

Included Benefits:

Medical insurance, maternity leave (unpaid), dental insurance offered at $43.30 a person