Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Astronomical Instrumentation or Experimental Astrophysics
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, Texas, US
Description The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an open rank (assistant, associate, or full professor)...
Job description
Description The Department of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for an open rank (assistant, associate, or full professor) faculty position in Astronomical Instrumentation. We welcome applications from candidates with an emphasis on Instrumentation in any field of astronomy. The search will begin with a target start as early as August 2026 but will continue until the position is filled. Information on departmental and McDonald Observatory resources and research programs can be found at: https://astronomy.utexas.edu. UT Austin is a major founding partner in the consortium for the next-generation 25-m Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT: http://www.gmto.org ). UT Austin faculty members have access to McDonald Observatory, which hosts the 10-m Hobby-Eberly Telescope equipped with instruments such as the VIRUS wide-field integral field spectrograph and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) precision-RV spectrograph. McDonald also hosts the HJST 2.7-m telescope with the Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrograph (IGRINS), the 2.1-m and 0.8-m telescopes, and a node for the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) network. The UT Astronomy Program provides vibrant collabora...