Scholarships

Two scholarships are currently being offered to international students wishing to commence a PhD in radio astronomy at ICRAR. The scholarships are valued at AUD 30,000 pa with a possibility of a six-month extension. Students will need to enrol at Curtin University or the University of Western Australia. Tuition fees will be covered by the respective Universities and subject to a separate application process (which ICRAR will assist with).

Conditions of the ICRAR scholarship are:

• International candidates only
• Excellent undergraduate academic record (first class Honours or equivalent)
• Minimum university language proficiency requirements
• Undergraduate degree in physics, astrophysics, ICT or electronic engineering.
• Excellent academic references

We do not provide for health insurance, visa costs or English language tests.

Applications should be sent following the guidelines on the scholarship advertisement by the closing date below.  You are required to nominate one or more research projects that interest you.

Example projects are:

• Analysis of galaxies in the GAMA database
• Radio astronomy (VLBI, MWA) technology and algorithms
• Supermassive black holes, galactic X-ray binaries and pulsars
• Aperture arrays in radio astronomy
• Dynamics and star-formation in galaxies
• Galaxy evolution driven by mergers
• Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and structure growth
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Further and more detailed descriptions of projects are available at www.astronomy.curtin.edu.au/research/future.cfm (Curtin) and www.astro.uwa.edu.au/students/research_projects (UWA).

Please contact the researchers individually to discuss additional projects, or for further details.

More information and closing dates:

• ICRAR/Curtin Scholarship (CLOSING DATE 31st OF JANUARY 2012)
• ICRAR/UWA Scholarship (CLOSING DATE 9th OF DECEMBER 2011)

For the ICRAR/UWA scholarship you will need to:

• Provide a short statement describing your academic achievements, previous research projects and other relevant experience.
• Provide an academic transcript
• Provide contact details for two academic referees whom should provide a short email in support of the application by the deadline to education@icrar.org
• Nominate up to three projects that interest you (in priority order).

Applicants will need to send the above to education@icrar.org by December 9th 2011.

We are pleased to offer four 2012 Honours scholarships worth $6000 for Astronomy & Astrophysics, ICT and Radio Astronomy engineering students. Students are required to enrol at Curtin University or the University of Western Australia, and to undertake a radio astronomy Honours thesis with an ICRAR staff member. They are also expected to attend the ICRAR Astronomy and Astrophysics Honours lectures. Applications are invited from local, other Australian and international students. Applicants not currently enrolled at Curtin or UWA will need to contact the respective Universities. ICRAR will not provide any tuition or travel expenses.

Applications should be sent by email to education@icrar.org by the closing date (November 30th, 2011 Now extended to December 20th, 2011).  Your email should include a short statement describing your academic achievements, previous research projects and other relevant experience.  Please provide the contact details of up to two academic referees, whom you should ask to send a short email in support of your application to education@icrar.org by the closing date.  ICRAR will not chase late references.

Suitable topics for Honours research projects can be found at the Curtin University Astronomy website or the University of Western Australia Astronomy website (where the project lists can be downlaoded in pdf form.)

Please contact the researchers individually to discuss additional projects, or for further details.