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Assistant Professor (88164-0425)

University of Warwick - Department of Physics

Location: Coventry, University of Warwick
Salary: £46,735 to £55,755 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 7th April 2025
Closes: 5th May 2025
Job Ref: 2731

For informal enquiries, please contact Don Pollacco (Professor) d.pollacco@warwick.ac.uk or David Brown (Senior Research Fellow) D.J.A.Brown@warwick.ac.uk

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

This is an exciting opportunity to join the PLATO Mission Consortium and the PLATO Science Management Office which defines and validates the science that underpins the mission. The Science Management Office is sited in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group within the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick. This is a permanent University appointment.

We are seeking to appoint a proven researcher wanting to contribute towards PLATO - a space mission dedicated to finding terrestrial habitable zone planets orbiting Sun-like stars. This will involve supporting the efforts of more than 500 scientists across Europe. Depending on responsibilities to the mission, there will be research time of up to 25% available in this role. The PLATO spacecraft remains on schedule to launch in the final quarter of 2026.

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We are looking for someone with a PhD in Astrophysics or a related discipline, and a proven track record of project support and astrophysics research, preferably in exoplanets, asteroseismology, or low mass stars.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

CLOSING DATE: Monday 5th May 2025 at 23:55 (GMT) 

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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