Postdoctoral Position

Our Offer
Comprehensive onboarding, professional development and further training opportunities
Diverse and varied tasks in an international workenvironment
Renumeration according to TVöDBund, based on qualifications and experience, annual bonus and additional pension scheme (VBL)
30 days of vacation plus 4 additional days off
Full-time and part-time employment; flexible working time and possibility of mobile work
In-house cafeteria
Collaboration with local bilingual Montessori child care center
Good connection by public transport
Corporate health management
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen is one of the world's leading research institutions in the field of solar physics and planetary research with around 300 employees. The interdisciplinary research focus is the investigation of the development, diversity and dynamics of planets, moons, small bodies, the sun and solar-like stars. The MPS develops and operates scientific instruments for current and future space missions (e.g. ESA, NASA), and carries out cosmochemical laboratory investigations of meteorites as well as numerical modeling on state-of-the-art supercomputers.
Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) in Exoplanets Formation
Your Tasks
- Development of state-of-the-art models for planetesimal and planet formation around stars of different masses, metallicities, and formed in various stellar environments.
- Performing numerical simulations, analysis, results interpretation and benchmarking against available exoplanetary data
- Presentation of the results in journal papers and at national and international conferences.
- (Optional) Co-supervision of PhD students.

Your Qualification
- PhD in astronomy, astrophysics, or related topic is required before the start of the position.
- Good command of English (min B2-Level).
- Computer literacy including familiarity with Linux/UNIX environment.
- Experience with High Performance Computing is considered as an advantage.
- Previous experience in planet formation modelling is considered as an advantage.

Additional Information
- Remuneration is according to the German public salary scale TVöD-Bund E13.
- Social security benefits are in accordance with the public service regulations.
- Funding for publications and travels as well as access to computing resources are provided.

This position is offered within the project "Formation of planetary building blocks throughout time and space" funded by the ERC Starting Grant PLANETOIDS.
Starting time is flexible, preferably in the first half of 2025.
For formal reasons, the initial contract will be restricted until 31.08.2027 independently of the starting date. Extension is possible given satisfactory progress and funding availability.
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