I'm on the academic job market this fall! 🥳
I recently completed my PhD, and I'm looking for a 3+ year postdoc position. I'm also applying to fellowships to potentially work on my own project ideas. 🔭
Buckle up! It's time for a thread of self-promo 😇
In broad terms, my specialities are:
🖥️ Processing large datasets
🗲 Machine learning (supervised & unsupervised)
📈 Bayesian statistics
✨ Galactic dynamics
I'm also a very competent programmer with over 10 years' of experience writing scientific software.
During my PhD, I worked with Gaia data to create the largest homogeneous catalogue of open clusters to date.
I used multiple different machine learning techniques to turn 729 million stars into a cleaned catalogue of over 7000 clusters, containing many new objects.
Within the next few months, my third first author paper should be out too!
Without revealing too much, it dives into star cluster dynamics, and should completely change the way that open clusters are defined observationally. 👀
Finally, it's also worth mentioning everything else!
From EDI work to open source software to outreach, I've also done a ton of other meta-science things that would make me an asset to your department & research group.
Ideally, I'd like to find a project/fellowship where I can keep working with Gaia data and/or star clusters.
But my masters' project was about determining galaxy redshifts with machine learning! So I'm also up for a change if you have an interesting project.
➡️ Please send me interesting positions & fellowships!
🔊 I'd also be excited to come and give a talk at your department - drop me an email (there's a link on my website in my bio.)
Finally, you can check out my CV! I’m still tweaking it ahead of job season (and I'd love any and all feedback on it), but it has a more complete list of my academic history.
Thanks for reading!
@jchillerup @emilydoesastro you sound awesome! And qualified for almost anything... If any of the jobs on @dmidk sound up your street, give me a shout...😎.
(We're currently looking for climate research software developers for example, but plenty of scope to define your own research projects within that space)
@Ruth_Mottram @jchillerup @[email protected] it's a small world!!! I have a friend here who has done some awesome software work over the last few years who is literally applying to that job 😆
My own plan B if astro doesn't work out is research-adjacent software development too, will keep you folks in mind as an option!
@emilydoesastro If Canada is on your radar, consider the Dunlap Fellowship (Toronto), and of course my own institution, Perimeter Institute, which hires many postdocs each year! At Toronto: Jo Bovy, Juna Kollmeier and others interested in stars. At Perimeter, astro work is mostly related to cosmology, but if you wanted to work on DESI (10s of millions of stars with spectra!), that would be an option.
Feel free to email me for more details!
https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/dunlap-fellowship/
https://perimeterinstitute.ca/jobs/perimeter-postdoctoral-program
@emilydoesastro ah, you're an astrophysicist (as I was!). Good luck!! The academic job market has always been hard so it's good to have a time limit on post-docs before they get to be a treadmill. Don't do 3 like I did!
With your expertise in machine learning, you'll have a ton of non-academic options too.
Find a postdoctoral (or postdoc) fellowship through ORISE! Scientists currently pursuing their doctorate degree, or those who have already earned a Ph.D. but would like additional training in their field of study, can further their research career by participating in a postdoc research fellowship.
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