Institute of Astronomy
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available until 30 April 2027 in the first instance with good prospects for further extension subject to grant funding. The anticipated start date is 1st June 2025 or as early as possible thereafter.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Astronomical Data Scientist to work within the Cambridge Centre of Excellence in Astronomical Data (CamCEAD) at the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) as part of its spectroscopic analysis system development team.
WEAVE, MOONS and 4MOST are major massively-multiplexed optical/NIR spectrographs currently under advanced stages of development, deployed on the 4.2-m William Herschel, ESO VLT and VISTA telescopes respectively. They will enable large, cutting-edge spectroscopic surveys to be undertaken across both hemispheres, observing millions of stars and galaxies during their initial multi-year survey periods. Our Cambridge team has developed the spectroscopic pipelines for WEAVE and 4MOST and has responsibility for the final development, commissioning and operations of the data pipelines. We are also developing the data flow system and housing the survey operations centre for MOONS.