SKA Chair Student Bursaries available. See Below for Details.
The Rhodes University Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies (RATT) invites high-flying students looking to get involved in radio astronomy, MeerKAT and the SKA to apply for postgraduate scholarships​ for 2017.
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2016.
The Square Kilometre Array is coming to Africa ‒ how would you like to be involved in one of the biggest projects in science? The SKA site bid was only the beginning: designing the SKA and making it work will be an even bigger hurdle. Before we can take full advantage of the SKA and its precursor instruments ‒ most notably MeerKAT ‒ we still need to do a great deal of research into data processing algorithms, novel calibration & imaging techniques, and innovative observational methods.
Doctoral: R119 000 p.a., plus R32 000 equipment grant and R22 000 travel grant.
Contact: Prof O. Smirnov, o.smirnov@ru.ac.za.
Applicants should prepare a covering letter indicating intended subject of study; detailed Curriculum Vitae; full certified academic transcript, and details of three referees (including working email addresses).
​Foreign citizens should be aware that first priority will be given to South African candidates, followed by candidates from SKA Africa partner countries (Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia), followed by exceptional candidates from the rest of the world.