BiD4BEST: 13 PhD positions (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) 1430 views

The Astronomy Group at University of Southampton is inviting applications for 13 PhD position in BiD4BEST (Big Data applications for Black hole Evolution Studies) project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant.

About the project:

• The BiD4BEST ITN will offer doctoral training in one of the most visible areas of astrophysical research, the formation of supermassive black holes in galaxies.
• A coordinated research training effort in this field is needed now to mobilise the community in Europe and prepare a core group of young scientists in anticipation of new observational data in the early/mid 2020s from future space missions with strong European involvement.
• These data will have the quality and volume to yield transformational science on the formation of black-holes in galaxies, as long as the necessary expertise and synergies among observation, theory and data analytics exist within the European astronomy community.
• The proposed research training programme aspires to generate individuals that in addition to academic competences, master big-data analytics and have the capacity to apply these technologies to solve problems in different sectors (research, industry, non-academic) by developing innovative products and services.

Projects available:

Project 1: The accretion and host properties of rapidly accreting black holes.

@UoD (Durham University)

Project 2: Probing the role of orientation in buried AGN.

@NOA (National Observatory of Athens)

Project 3: Incidence and energetics of AGN winds in the distant Universe.

@UNIBO (Università di Bologna)

Project 4: Incidence and energetics of AGN winds in the local Universe..

@IAC (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

Project 5: The role of mergers and disc instabilities in fuelling AGN.

@UoB (University of Bath, Astrophysics Group)

Project 6: Measurements of the AGN luminosity function and clustering.

@NOA (National Observatory of Athens)

Project 7: Constraints on AGN Eddington ratio distributions from the J-PAS, X-ray, AllWise and LeMMINGs surveys.

@UNIBO (Università di Bologna)

Project 8: Connecting AGN to host galaxy properties.

@DIPC (Donostia International Physics Center)

Project 9: Advanced phenomenological models to probe the coevolution of massive galaxies and supermassive black holes through cosmic times.

@SISSA (Astrophysics & Cosmology))

Project 10: High-resolution hydro simulations of massive galaxies and their central black holes with AGN feedback and radiative transfer.

Project 11: Semi-analytic models of black hole growth and galaxy evolution.

@SOTON (University of Southampton, Astronomy Group)

Project 12: Semi-empirical models of black hole growth/galaxy evolution.

@SOTON (University of Southampton, Astronomy Group)

Project 13: AGN evolution processes and galaxy formation physics in cosmological, multiscale hydrodynamical simulations.

@LMU (USM, CAST)