Senior Research Associate

4 weeks ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom University of Cambridge Full time

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 year in the first instance.

The Astrophysics Group at the Cavendish Laboratory has an on-going program designing, prototyping, and deploying state-of-the-art optical and near-infrared instrumentation for astronomers worldwide. These include ANDES, a high-resolution near-IR spectrograph for the European ELT; HARPS3, which will undertake an intensive search for Earth-like planets around nearby Sun-like stars and the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer.

ANDES is a very large multiband instrument being designed and built by a large world-wide consortium for the European Extremely Large Telescope currently being built by ESO, the European Southern Observatory, and which will be sited in Chile. The UK is responsible for the near-IR spectrograph which will be assembled at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre in Edinburgh. The Cavendish Laboratory is providing the large echelle grating and dichroic assemblies to be integrated in the spectrograph.
- or sub-micron tolerances and stability. The post is an interim position funded at 0.4 FTE, i.e., two days per week. As work-package manager, the post holder will provide budgetary control and report progress and finance reports to the ANDES project manager at UKATC and to Oversight committees as appropriate.

(a) Work-package management of large technical instrumentation; (b) design, alignment, and testing of opto-mechanical assemblies; (c) cryogenic instrument prototyping, testing, and commissioning; (d) liaison with vendors of mechanical/opto-mechanical hardware; (e) electronics and control instrumentation, data acquisition.

The post holder will be located at the Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.

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