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Tenure Track Faculty Positions
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| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) | |
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| Aarhus University (ad) | Associate Professor in theoretical cosmology. Shortlist made. Interviews underway. Rejections sent. | |
| Adelphi University (ad), Assistant Professor Physics | Due April 15, 2021. First round interview request May 14, including Ashkbiz Danehkar. | |
| APEx, MPIA (Heidelberg), tenure-track staff positions (ad) | Due Dec. 1 2020, first-round interviews sent January 13. Interviews include Clara Sousa-Silva, Sarah Rugheimer. Some rejections sent. Position filled with Paul Molliere. | |
| Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), faculty positions (ad) |
Due Jan 15, 2021. news? Shortlist made, including Yi-Kuan Chiang, Daniel Harsono, Rahul Kannan, Alessandro Sonnenfeld, Maciek Wielgus. Offer made to Yi-Kuan Chiang |
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| Appalachian State University, Assistant Professor - Physics & Astronomy (ad) |
Due Dec. 15, 2020 Interview request received 1/19, Shortlist candidates invited (Feb. 16). Search failed. |
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| Ball State University, Physics and Astronomy | Due Jan. 21. Any updates? Position filled. | |
| Barry University, Assistant Professor Position in Physics (ad) | Due April 5, 2021. First-round interviews sent April 12. Interviews include Ashkbiz Danehkar. | |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Department of Physics (ad) |
Multiple positions for assistant professors. Senior applicants will also be considered Positions open until filled. |
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| California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Division of Physics, Math, and Astronomy (ad) |
Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2020, and will continue until the position is filled. Search is open to all areas of astrophysics and cosmology including experiment/instrumentation, observations, and theory. Offer made to Kareem El-Badry
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| California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) (link) | Shortlist invited (based on seminar schedule): Diana Powell, Jenny Bergner, Julia Tejada, Jasmina Wiemann, Brent Minchew. Two offers in geobiology? One offer made to Julia Tejada. | |
| California State University, Chico, Physics Department (ad) | Application deadline March 22, 2021; All areas of physics/astronomy considered. Kendall Hall | |
| Carnegie Institution for Science, The Observatories, Staff Astronomer (ad) |
Due Dec. 4, 2020, any news? extended shortlist candidates invited for short interview (Feb 4) Two offers made |
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Carnegie Mellon University Physics Department (ad) |
Review of applications will begin on Jan 4 2020. "Medium-list" candidates invited for short interview (Feb 8). Shortlist made (Feb 24) | |
| University of California, Los Angeles, Faculty Position in Physics and Astrophysics (ad) | Due Dec. 18, 2020, any news? Shortlist invitations sent out 2/10. But no rejections sent? | |
| University of Chicago, Assistant Professor, Geophysical Sciences (ad) | Due Nov. 1, 2021. "any area within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences and related interdisciplinary research" | |
| University of Chicago, Associate Professor, Geophysical Sciences (ad) | Due Nov. 1, 2021. "any area within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences and related interdisciplinary research" | |
| University of Chicago, Assistant Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics (ad) |
Review of applications will begin on November 2, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Some candidates invited for interviews (Dec 23). Shortlist includes Anna Rosen, Kareem El-Badry, Diana Powell, Kate Alexander (based on colloquium schedule). Offers made to Kareem El-Badry, Diana Powell, Jamie Law-Smith |
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| University of Chicago, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Astronomy & Astrophysics (ad) |
Initial two-year tenure-track faculty appointment; normally be promoted to Assistant Professor at the end of a 2-year term. Review of applications will begin on November 2, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Any update? Rejections set Feb. 5, 2021. |
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| University of Chicago, Associate Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics (ad) | Review of applications will begin on November 2, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. | |
| Cooper Union & Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Flatiron Institute, Joint Faculty/Research Scientist position (ad) |
Short list includes Collin Capano, Drummond Fielding, Michael Hahn, Nathan Leigh, Yao-Yuan Mao, Alice Pisani. Interviews completed. Offer made and accepted. |
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| Cornell University Physics Department (ad) | Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled. Shortlist notification received on December 17. Interviews completed. Offer made and accepted. | |
| Universidad Diego Portales | Due April 21, 2021. Shortlist made. First round of interviews concluded. Three offers made, including James Jenkins | |
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Durham University, Institute for Computational Cosmology, Assistant Professor positions (ad) |
Due Jan 31, 2021 Longlist candidates notified (March 11) At least one offer made and accepted |
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| EPFL, observational cosmology | Due Nov. 5, 2020. Rejection received on Dec. 8. | |
| Fudan University (ad) |
Several positions. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2020 and will continue until the positions are filled. Two candidates invited for online interviews (Feb 27) |
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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)
The University of Tokyo, Assistant Professor
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Due Nov. 15, 2020. Shortlist made, including Yi-Kuan Chiang, Elisa Ferreira, Jia Liu, Volodymyr Takhistov, offers to Elisa Ferreira and Jia Liu | |
| Macaulay Honors College (CUNY) and Center for Computational Astrophysics (Flatiron Institute) joint Research Assistant Professor (ad) |
Note: position is for six years, not tenture-track at the outset. Priority deadline May 15 |
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| MIT, Assistant Professor, Planetary Science (ad) |
Notifications sent January 7. Rejections sent Jan 14. |
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| MIT, Assistant Professor, Astronomy (exoplanets), (ad) |
Any news? Interviews currently underway. Offers made to Andrew Vanderburg and Sarah Millholland. |
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| US Naval Academy (ad), Assistant Professor (Physics) | Due November 15, 2020, any news? | |
| Leiden University (ad) | One or more faculty positions. Application deadline (extended to April 2020 due to COVID-19). At least some shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (September 2020). Offer made to Nienke van der Marel | |
| University of Leicester, Lecturer in Astrophysics, Planetary Science or Space Instrumentation (ad was removed from the web), | Due September 5th 2021. Any news? | |
| University of Newcastle, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics (ad) | Due May 19th 2021. Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews, including Giacomo Fragione, Mariangela Bonavita. Offer accepted by David Rosario. | |
| Northwestern University, Assistant Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics (ad) |
Due Feb. 15, 2021 Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews: Ana Bonaca, Marta Bryan, Kareem El-Badry, Ben Margalit, Adam Miller, Jason Wang. Some rejections sent Mar 5. Nearly 200 applicants. Four offers made. |
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| Northwestern University, CIERA Board of Visitors Research Professorship (ad) | Due Jan 15, 2021, Rejections sent (Feb 8). Offer made and accepted. | |
| Open University, Fixed-Term Lecturer in Exoplanets (ad) | Due May 21st, shorlisted candidate invited for online interviews. Offer made to Mariangela Bonavita | |
| Rice University, Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy (ad) | Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (Jan 19), including Chat Hull, Anna Rosen. Offer made and accepted. | |
| Pennsylvania State University (ad), tenure-track and tenured faculty positions in astronomy | Due Jan. 15, 2021. any news? - Last contact with Eberly HR on Mar 29th, the College was still going through applications before sending to departments. Any updates? | |
| Stanford University, Assistant Professor, Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences (ad) | Due, Feb. 12th, 2021. Rejections sent Feb 23. Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (end March). | |
| Stony Brook University, C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics (ad), Assistant Professor | Due Dec 22, 2020. Shortlist made. Offer made to Vivian Miranda | |
| Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (ad), tenure and tenure-track | Due Dec 2, 2020, interviews completed at the end of Dec, any news? | |
| Sonoma State University (ad), Visiting Professor | Due April 12, 2020, some candidates invited to online interviews (May 17), including Ashkbiz Danehkar. | |
| STScI Astronomy/Scientist tenure-track | Due May 1, 2021: applications are being reviewed, and a short list will be created soon. At least some candidates notified (Sept 28). | |
| University of Texas at Austin (ad), Assistant Professor |
Due Dec 11, 2020. Candidates invited. Rejections sent (Jan 29). Shorlist includes Diana Powell, Carlos Vargas, Kirk Barrow (based on colloquium schedule). Offers made to Diana Powell, Jamie Law-Smith. |
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| University of Texas at Austin, tenure and tenure-track, SDS department (ad) |
Due Nov 30, 2020. Offer made and accepted (at least one astronomer). |
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| University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), tenure track Assistant Professor in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy / Radio-Astronomy and Astrophysics (ad) |
Due March 1, 2021. At least some candidates invited to online interviews (Feb 4), including Tanmoy Laskar, Giacomo Fragione. At least 2 offers made in March 2021. One accepted. Offer made. |
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| The College of New Jersey, Assistant Professor, Physics (ad) | Finalist interviews completed early December. Offer made and accepted. | |
| Trinity College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Due Dec. 16, 2020, first round interview request Jan. 27, Finalist candidates invited (Feb. 18) | |
| Truman State University, tenure-track Physics/Astronomy (ad) | Due March 29, 2021, first round interview request Apr 7, including Ashkbiz Danehkar, Natalie Butterfield. Finalist candidates invited (Apr 16) including Natalie Butterfield. In person interviews 4/26. Any news? Search failed. If they did not want to hire anyone, why they advertised it and took the time of candidates and their references! |
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| Tsinghua University (ad), tenure-track and tenured faculty positions in astrophysics | Due Nov. 30, 2020 | |
| Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/6ab2f6f0), Several faculty positions in Astrophysics | Due Nov.15, 2020. 3/2021: Offers made and accepted: Gwenael Giacinti, Masahiro Ogihara | |
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Texas A&M University (ad), Assistant Professor, Astronomy |
Due Dec 11, 2020, longlisted candidates invited for online interview (1/25). Some shortlist candidates notified (2/26). Offer made to Justin Spilker. | |
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TU Berlin and DLR —Professorship/department head on "Planetary science with focus on extrasolar planets" (https://eas.unige.ch/jobs.jsp?type=job&id=1303). |
Due March 18, 2021. Shortlist included Lena Noack, Julia Venturini, Monika Lendl, Juan Cabrera, Sandra Jeffers, Stefan Kraus. |
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| Union College (https://jobs.union.edu/cw/en-us/job/492784), Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy | Due Dec 1, 2020. Any news? | |
| University of Alabama (ad), Assistant Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics | Due Jan 1, 2021. Some candidates invited to on-line chats, including Peter Brown, Giacomo Fragione, Tanmoy Laskar. Finalist candidates invited for interviews (2/19) including Tanmoy Laskar, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil, Matthew Shultz, Jamie Tayar, Dom Walton (from colloquium schedule). Offer made (4/19). | |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville, Assistant Professor (ad) | Some candidates contacted for online interviews. | |
| University of Amsterdam (ad), tenure-track faculty in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Exoplanets) |
Due Jan 22, 2021. Shortlist contacted, includes Sarah Rugheimer. Offer made to Richard Teague. |
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| University of Florida (ad), Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Focus in AI/ML | Due Jan 15, 2021. Longlist candidates invited for online interviews (2/19), including Tanmoy Laskar, Sarah Rugheimer. Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (3/9), including Tanmoy Laskar and Tansu Daylan. Offer made to Jaehan Bae. | |
| University of Florida (ad), Assistant Professor in Theoretical Astrophysics | Due Feb 15, 2021. Applications are invited from qualified candidates in all areas of theoretical astrophysics. Longlist candidates invited for online interviews (2/27). Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews in March, including Richard Anantua, Alice Pisani, Kirk Barrow, Vanessa Boehm, Jeff Andrews, Paul Fulda, Jia Liu, Daniel D'Orazio (from colloquium schedule). | |
| University of Mary Washington, Assistant Professor of physics | Due Nov. 30. Search completed and some rejections sent Mar 19. | |
| University of Notre Dame (ad), Astronomy | Due Nov. 15, 2020, initial shortlist notified. Some rejections sent Feb 12. Offer made to Lauren Weiss. | |
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University of the Pacific, Assistant Prof of Physics, (ad). |
Review of applications to begin Jan 2021. Longlist contacted on 2/20. Shortlist contacted on 3/13. Offer made to Dustin Madison. | |
| UC Berkeley (ad), Assistant Professor, Astronomy |
Due Nov 30, 2020. Shortlist candidates invited. Rejections sent 2/18. Wenbin Lu, Jane Huang, Ben Margalit, Kareem El-Badry, Siyao Xu. Offer made to Wenbin Lu. |
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| University of Utah, Assistant Professor (ad) | Due Nov 30, 2020. Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (1/26) scheduled for February and March, including Simon Birrer, Ana Bonaca, Kareem El-Badry, Kate Grier, Tanmoy Laskar, Yao-Yuan Mao, Jamie Tayar. Rejections sent (1/29). Offers accepted by Tanmoy Laskar and Yao-Yuan Mao. | |
| Utah Valley University, Assistant Professor, Astronomy (ad) | Due Dec 31, 2020. Shortlisted candidates invited for online interviews (Jan 24), including Ashkbiz Danehkar. Offer made (to whom?). No one was hired based on their website. | |
| University of Southern California, Physics and Astronomy, Assistant Professor (ad) | Due Dec. 15, 2020, Longlist made (1/6). Rejections sent (1/12). Shortlist contacted (1/26). | |
| University of Sydney / ASTRO 3D | Application deadline Feb 14. First round of interviews ~ March 10. Top 3 candidates invited for second round of interviews taking place ~march 22/23. selection to be made before end of march. Offer made (3/26). | |
| University of Tampa, Physics and Astronomy (ad) |
First round interviews completed week of Jan. 18 Finalist candidates invited (Jan. 28), including Richard Anantua Offer made and accepted (1 of 2)
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| University of Washington (Seattle), Dept of. Earth & Space Sciences, Assistant Professor position in planetary science (ad) | Due May 7, 2021. Candidates contacted for preliminary short interviews (5/21). Shortlist made. | |
| Washington University in St. Louis (ad) | Due March 15, 2021. Some online long-list candidates contacted (3/25). Shortlist candidates invited for virtual visit (4/6), including Josh Dillon and Tansu Daylan. Offers made to Andrina Nicola and Yajie Yuan, both accepted. | |
| Wesleyan University, Astronomy, Assistant professor (ad) | Due Dec 15, 2020, candidates invited for formal interviews. Offer made to Sarah Wellons. | |
| Westminster College, Assistant Professor of Physics | Due Mar 1, 2021. Candidates invited for online interviews (3/2). Offer made to Matteo Luisi and accepted. | |
| Widener University, Assistant Professor Astronomy and Physics (ad) |
Due Dec. 31, 2020 First round notifications sent 1/18; Finalist candidates invited (Jan. 30) |
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| York University, The Allan I. Carswell Chair for the Public Understanding of Astronomy (ad) | Appointment will be at the Associate or Full Professor level. Due Nov 19, 2020. Some rejections sent (1/18). Interviews scheduled for February and March. Shortlist includes Sarah Rugheimer. Offer made and accepted to Sarah Rugheimer. | |
| York University, Open Rank Position in Biology, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Mathematics, or Statistics (ad) | Open to qualified individuals who self-identify as Black peoples of African Descent. Deadline extended to Jan. 15, 2021. Position filled in Mathematics. | |
| California State University Long Beach, Assistant Professor of Astronomy (Job Ad) | Due Nov. 1, 2021. |
Science Staff and Management Positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
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| Astronomer / Instrument Project Scientist (ESO Faculty, ad) |
Application deadline August 31 2020. Interviews in September, included Julien Girard, Sylvestre Lacour, Elena Valenti. Offer made and accepted. |
| George Mason University, Senior Research Scientist (ad) | Due Oct 27, 2020. Virtual interview request received (Oct 20), including Ashkbiz Danehkar. Rejection sent on Nov 12. |
| United Arab Emirates University / National Space Science and Technology Center - two Senior Researcher positions related to EMM science and Earth/Mars atmospheric retrievals (apply via Jobs@UAEU, ad1, ad2) |
First interviews conducted in October/November 2020. Three offers made but declined. Applications are still being accepted for both positions, which remain open until filled. |
| University of Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory/Department of Planetary Sciences: Director/Department Chair | Interviews will begin in late September, 2020, to include: Rosaly Lopes, Humberto Campins, Mark Marley. Offer made and accepted: Mark Marley. |
| UK Astronomy Technology Centre (Edinburgh, UK) - Senior Software Engineer (ad) | Application deadline 22 November 2020. |
| University of Hawaii IfA director | Finalists announced 20 October 2020: Ken Chambers, Laura Ferrarese, Doug Simons. Search postponed Oct 29. Search reopened February 2021, Laura Ferrarese withdrew. |
| University of Washington / Vera C. Rubin Observatory Research Scientist (up to 3 openings; ad) | Solar System and ML positions filled (12 Mar). |
| Resident Astronomer, Hobby-Eberly Telescope, McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin (ad) | Application deadline 15 Feb 2021 |
| ESA Scientist Liaison Position (ad) | Application deadline 15 Oct 2020. Shortlist informed December 2nd, 2020. First round interviews late December 2020, included Sarah Rugheimer. Position filled (Victoria Grinberg) |
| STScI Staff Scientists (ad) |
Application deadline Friday, September 18, 2020. First round phone screenings complete. Last round of interviews nearly complete (2/16). Offers have started going out. |
| NRAO Assistant Scientist (ad) |
Deadline March 1st. Any news? Some rejections sent 4/28, first round of interviews week of 5/3. Additional rejections sent May 20. |
| NRAO Astronomer (ad) | Deadline June 15th. Longlist notified 22 July. Shortlist notified 6 August. Offers made and accepted. Final rejections sent 8 Oct. |
| NASA AST Program Scientist (ad) | Deadline May 11. Any news? Short-list contacted for Interviews (early August). |
| SOFIA Instrument Scientist EXES | Deadline November 11 |
| SOFIA Instrument Scientist GREAT/FIFI-LS/HAWC+ | |
| SOFIA Observatory Scientist | Deadline August 17 |
| UK Astronomy Technology Centre; project scientist for SKAO (ad) | Deadline July 16. Interviews late July |
Faculty Shuffle
| Person (alphabetical) | Old Institution | New Institution |
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| Selma de Mink | Harvard | MPA |
| Julianne Dalcanton | UW | Flatiron CCA Director |
| Suvi Gezari | University of Maryland | STScI |
| Pablo Laguna | Georgia Tech | University of Texas, Austin |
| Deirdre Shoemaker | Georgia Tech | University of Texas, Austin |
| Britney Schmidt | Georgia Tech | Cornell |
| Chris Conselice | Nottingham | Manchester |
| Abigail Crites | Toronto | Cornell |
| José Gregorio Fernández Trincado | Universidad de Atacama | Universidad Católica del Norte |
| Marilena Loverde | Stonybrook | University of Washington |
| Juna Kollmeier | Carnegie Observatories | CITA Director / University of Toronto |
| Raffaella Margutti | Northwestern | Berkeley |
| Ryan Chornock | Northwestern | Berkeley |
| Marc Seigar | University of Minnesota Duluth |
University of Toledo (Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) |
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Andrew Vanderburg |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | MIT |
| Alkistis Pourtsidou | QMUL | Edinburgh |
| Renbin Yan | University of Kentucky |
Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| James Jenkins | Universidad de Chile | Universidad Diego Portales |