IPS supports long-duration visits by planetary scientists and postdoctoral
research opportunities.
Visiting Scientists
If you wish to visit IPS for a duration of less than 2 months,
you should contact the IPS faculty member most
closely associated to your research interest to learn about our visiting
scientist opportunities.
If you wish to visit for more than two months (including stays during a sabbatical),
IPS may be able to partially or completely fund your visit here (via reimbursement of local
lodging and perdeim expenses and/or travel to and from Vancouver).
See the Visitors list under the People link for a list of past, current, and future
IPS visitors.
Postdoctoral fellowships
Researchers with a PhD (or in the final year of their PhD) can finance a postdoctoral
fellowship in a department related to IPS via a variety of means.
A partial list of funding possiblities for Post-Doctoral Fellowships (PDFs) include:
NSERC PDFs. Open to Canadian citizens
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CITA National Fellows. If research is related to astronomy/astrophysics
Individual research faculty members also directly support PDFs
NEOSSat postdoctoral research fellowship
A postdoctoral-level researcher is sought to study planetary
dynamics at the University of British Columbia under the
supervision of Professor
Brett Gladman.
Two-thirds of the research time will used be to study the dynamics of
near-Earth asteroids in order to plan and then interpret the data from
the
NEOSSat space mission.
This activity will require working in close conjunction with
the NEOSSat Science team and technical personnel at the Canadian
Space Agency.
A detailed orbital model of the near-Earth object population needs to be
built, with particular attention to the objects with semimajor
axes less than one.
The model will be used to plan the pointing strategy of the
spacecraft, due to be launched in early 2010.
Once discoveries are being made by the spacecraft, the detections
will be used to constrain the NEO model orbital and size
distribution.
The remaining one-third of the researcher's time may be used in
independent research. In particular, there is a very rich
Kuiper Belt observational data set available, although Kuiper
Belt research is not required to be the independent component.
The candidate should have a strong background in numerical solar
system dynamics. The (negotiable) start date is July 1 2009,
with intended duration of three years. Ample funds for travel
and research will be provided. Applicants should send a CV,
a written statement of their interest and background, and the
names/contact information (only) of 3 referees to
gladman@astro.ubc.ca
by Dec 18/2008.
