[Everyone] Two year post-doc position in Nançay-Orléans group, France

[Gilles THEUREAU]

The Nançay-Orléans pulsar group is opening a two year post-doc position in 
the framework of the project “MORPHER” : Modelling, Observing, seaRching 
Pulsars from High Energy to Radio. MORPHER focuses on the multi-wavelength 
observation and modeling of neutron star electrodynamics under strong 
electromagnetic and gravitational fields. It relies on complementary 
expertise in theoretical/computational astrophysics and 
observational/instrumental data acquisition and analysis. The main goal is 
to accomplish a significant step towards self-consistent modeling of 
pulsar magnetospheres on the basis of their multi-wavelength observations.

Our contribution in that project is to provide new radio data (single 
pulse multi frequency data, polarization information, spectral energy 
distributions, etc...) for a variety of pulsars, for better constraining 
and testing magnetospheric models developed in particular by Jérôme 
Pétri's group in Strasbourg. We also collaborate with the three other 
French research groups involved in the project, in Toulouse, Bordeaux and 
Paris, who are experts in high energy (X-ray, gamma-ray) observations and 
characterization of pulsar emission.

The hired post-doc will play a pivotal role between the Nançay-Orléans 
team and the other groups and will participate in regular meetings and 
teleconferences of the collaboration.  He/she will lead dedicated multi 
frequency and polarimetric observational programs with NenuFAR, LOFAR, 
NRT, or other radio telescopes like MeerKAT and GMRT. He/she will reduce 
the acquired data and participate in their analysis in close collaboration 
with the Strasbourg group. He/she will also have the opportunity to lead 
his/her own research projects, have privileged access to the extended NRT, 
LOFAR-FR606 and NenuFAR pulsar databases (to be discussed within the local 
team), and will be welcome to participate in the other on-going pulsar 
programs we are leading. We expect the recruited colleague to have 
experience in pulsar observations and radio astronomy and to have a solid 
knowledge of the most current data reduction software used by the 
community (e.g. Tempo/Tempo2, PSRCHIVE).

The Nançay-Orléans team is hosted by the Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie 
de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), located on the CNRS campus in 
the South of Orléans city centre, 140 km South of Paris. The team is 
currently composed of four permanent researchers (Ismaël Cognard, Lucas 
Guillemot, Jean-Mathias Griessmeier and Gilles Theureau), one post-doc and 
three PhD students, with usually two graduate students joining us for 3-5 
month internships starting in spring. The team is deeply involved in the 
instrumentation and in the operation of the three radio telescopes NenuFAR 
(10-85 MHz), LOFAR-FR606 (30-85 and 110-250 MHz) and NRT (1.1-3.5 GHz) and 
has been leading their pulsar observation programmes for years or even 
decades. In terms of international collaboration, it is part of the 
EPTA/IPTA consortia, it is leading the NenuFAR pulsar Key Programme and 
participates in the LOFAR pulsar working group, MeerTime and TRAPUM 
collaborations, as well as NICER and Femi-LAT pulsar groups.

to apply, please send a CV, publication list, short statement of research, 
and have two letters of reference e-mailed to Gilles Theureau 
theureau at cnrs-orleans.fr (mentioning "MORPHER postdoc" in the subject) by 
April 18th, 2022.

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