[Everyone] IPTA / MeerTime post-doc position in France (Orléans)

[Gilles THEUREAU]

Dear all,

The Orléans/Nançay team proposes a two-year post-doctoral position 
(extension possible up to 4 years) focused both on the International 
Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) data combination and data gravitational wave 
analyses and on an active participation in MeerTime consortium 
observations with the MeerKAT radio telescope.

The contract can start at any time after June 1st 2019.

In practice, the activity will consist in preparing and conducting pulsar 
timing observations with both the Nançay Radio Telescope (NRT — Nançay, France) 
and MeerKAT (Karoo, South Africa), and reducing the data obtained as part of 
these observations. Series of high-accuracy Times of Arrival (TOAs) will then 
be extracted from these datasets, which will be combined with other IPTA 
datasets to determine pulsar timing models and characterize sources of noise 
from the individual pulsars in details. We expect the post-doc to be part of 
both the timing and analysis working groups of the IPTA and to participate 
actively in their busy weeks and teleconferences. We expect also that she/he 
will spend 4-6 weeks per year in Cape Town, working closely with the MeerKAT 
radio telescope team and helping in the scientific exploitation of the 
instrument for the MeerTime consortium.

The post-doc will also have privileged access to the NRT pulsar timing data 
base (about 2600 hrs/year of pulsar observations since 2004) for her/his own 
scientific projects.

The PTA French team currently comprises five permanent pulsar and gravitational 
wave astronomers, with two PhD students and another post-doc.

LPC2E group :
- Gilles Theureau (staff)
- Ismaël Cognard (staff)
- Lucas Guillemot (staff)
- Siyuan Chen (post-doc, from Dec 2018)
- new post-doc (this call)
- Aurélien Chalumeau (PhD, from Oct 2018)
- new NenuFAR/NRT PhD (from Oct 2019)

APC group :
- Antoine Petiteau (staff)
- Stanislav Babak (staff)
- new IPTA PhD (from Oct 2019)
- LISA GW analysis and data challenge PhD

The Observer part of the group resides in Orléans at LPC2E laboratory, close to 
the Nançay Radio Observatory (NRT), the analysis part is settled in Paris at 
APC Institute.

If you are interested please contact Gilles Theureau (theureau at cnrs-orleans.fr)
and send a CV and a letter of intent.

Please also consult the CNRS job portal, which will be activated on 
March 1st, and fill in the on-line form (this will be mandatory for
considering your application):

https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7328-GILTHE-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN

Regards,

Gilles Theureau



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