The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy & Astrophysics is a joint structured doctoral program by the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR, Bonn) and the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. Several Ph.D. positions are available for talented students who are about to finish their Master's (or equivalent) degree in Physics or Astrophysics. [...]
The 1st ESFRI Stakeholders Forum Meetup will take place on December 8, 2021, in Ljubljana/ Slovenia, as a hybrid event. The ESFRI Stakeholders Forum is a newly established platform, developed by ESFRI with the ambition to instigate an open dialogue among the different European research infrastructure stakeholders, in order to reinforce the position of Research Infrastructures (RIs) as an essential pillar of the European [...]
All URSI GASS 2021 (28.8.-4.9.2021, Rome) presentations on J04 "Very Long Baseline Interferometry" are now available at the conference portal for registered participants.
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), a leading nonprofit professional association for astronomers, announced the switch of its prestigious journals to fully open access (OA) as of 1 January 2022. All articles in the AAS journal portfolio will be immediately open for anyone to freely read. The transition will affect the Astronomical Journal (AJ), the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), Astrophysical Journal [...]
Find here the issue 08/2021 of the RadioNet newsletter.
ISC will organise the second edition of the UNGA76 Science Summit around the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA76) in New York in September 2021. The UNGA76 Science Summit will be held for September 14-30, 2021 with the objective to raise awareness of the role and contribution of science to the attainment of the United Nations [...]
By connecting Westerbork and LOFAR, two of the biggest radio telescopes in the world, astronomers have discovered that a simple binary wind cannot cause the puzzling periodicity of a Fast Radio Burst after all. The bursts may come from a highly magnetized, isolated neutron star. The radio detections also show that Fast Radio Bursts, some [...]
After almost a decade of work, an international team of astronomers has published the most detailed images yet seen of galaxies beyond our own, revealing their inner workings in unprecedented detail. The images were created from data collected by the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a radio telescope built and maintained by ASTRON, LOFAR is a [...]
The European Commission has published the Annual Report on Research and Technological Development Activities of the European Union and Monitoring of Horizon 2020 in 2020. This report provides a concise, non-exhaustive overview of key research and innovation (R&I) activities taken in 2020. It refers to the Horizon Dashboard for more detailed monitoring data.
The European Commission on June 30, 2021 appointed Professor Maria Leptin as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Leptin, who is currently the Director of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), will take on her new role on October 1, 2021. Read the EC press release here.