The ErUM-IFT-2 project “Information Field Theory for Experiments at Large Research Facilities” has a PhD opening in the field of data-intensive radio astronomy. Methods of information field theory will be used to characterise the properties of radio antennas as used in modern radio interferometers (e. g., MeerKAT, LOFAR, SKA). The goal is to establish accurate models for antenna responses and describe their uncertainties in order to improve imaging techniques at large radio astronomy facilities. The project will be carried out in the Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics working group (Prof. Schwarz) at the Faculty of Physics. This will be done in close cooperation with working groups at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching and the German Center for Astrophysics in Görlitz.
Application deadline 28.1.2026
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