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**Tenure and Tenure-track Faculty Positions**
Permanent (or leading to a permanent) position at a university or college. Includes teaching responsibility.
Title	Institution	Location(s)	Posted	Deadline
CTAO and Synergy Programme Scientist	European Southern Observatory	Garching near Munich Germany	2026/06/19	2026/09/15
Professorship in Astrophysics with a Focus on Large-Scale Structure Surveys (W3 tenure or W2 Tenure-Track to W3)	Universität Bonn	Bonn, Germany	2026/06/12	2026/07/26

**Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships**
Typically located at a university, college or government lab. Allows recipient to pursue independent research or research support for a specific science program defined by the employer. Is limited to a pre-determined period of time. Usually does not include teaching responsibilities.
Title	Institution	Location(s)	Posted	Deadline
2+2 year Postdoctoral Position: Calibrating theories of tidal dissipation in evolving high-mass close binaries from asteroseismology	KU Leuven	Leuven Belgium	2026/07/09	2026/08/15
Fall 2026 Westlake Fellows Program Nomination and Application Open	Westlake University	Hangzhou Shi Zhejiang Sheng, China	2026/07/08	2026/08/31
Calibration data scientist (m/f/d) and Calibration instrument scientist (m/f/d)	Max Planck Institute for Astronomy	Heidelberg Germany	2026/07/01	2026/07/31
Two Postdoctoral Positions in Unveiling the Interaction Physics of Giant Binary Stars	KU Leuven	Leuven Belgium	2026/06/30	2026/08/05
Postdoctoral Research Position in Cosmology (Large-Scale Structure, AI and Statistical Inference)	Universität Bonn	Bonn Germany	2026/06/26	2026/07/12
Postdoctoral positions in radio astronomy techniques for the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA)	Argelander Institut, Universität Bonn	Bonn Germany	2026/06/24	2026/07/15
Postdoctoral Researcher Position – Computational Astrophysics within the Cluster of Excellence ‘Our Dynamic Universe’	University of Cologne	Cologne Germany	2026/06/24	2026/07/30
Software-oriented Postdoctoral Position for the 4D-STAR project at Dartmouth College	Dartmouth College	Hanover, NH United States Leuven Belgium Paris, Toulouse France	2026/06/19	2026/07/31

**Pre-doctoral / Graduate Positions**
Typically associated with a Fellowship or other source of funding to support those seeking a degree from an institution of higher education. May also include funding opportunities for exchange programs or other professional development.
Title	Institution	Location(s)	Posted	Deadline
PhD position in Astronomical Instrumentation – Astrophotonics	Universität zu Köln	Cologne Germany	2026/06/23	2026/07/23
Doctoral student position (m/f/d) in Computational Astrophysics	Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)	Potsdam Germany	2026/06/23	2026/08/15

**Other**
Any position that does not seem to fit.
Title	Institution	Location(s)	Posted	Deadline
Call for a Research Position in High Energy Astrophysics (m/f/d) Topic: Gamma-Ray Sky Reconstruction for the Milky Way Atlas	Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics	Garching Germany	2026/07/09	2026/08/10

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