Staff Scientist in Solar/Stellar Physics (can become permanent)

The Faculty of Physics at the University of Göttingen invites applications for a Staff Scientist in solar/ stellar physics at the Institute for Astrophysics. The staff scientist position is full time and for an initial period of two years, after which it can become permanent subject to a successful performance review. The position should be filled in 2016; the start date is negotiable. Remuneration: pay grade E13 TV-L on the German civil service salary scale.

Your duties:
• Contribute to teaching activities as defined in Section 31 of the Higher Education Act of Lower Saxony (NHG) and to the organization of examinations.
• Carry out support tasks for the physics faculty, for example, administer computer systems at the Institute for Astrophysics.
• Perform research in one or more of the following research areas:

                      o solar and/or stellar physics;
                      o helioseismology and/or asteroseismology;  
                      o exoplanets and their host stars;
                      o computational physics;
                      o applied mathematics.

The University of Goettingen is an equal opportunities employer. Please send your application with the usual documents by 1st July 2016 to [email protected] as a single PDF file.