The Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Germany’s leading radio astronomical institute, is seeking postdoctoral researchers to join the
MuSES
(Multi-messenger Studies of Extragalactic Super-colliders) project. This project, led by Prof. Yuri Kovalev and funded by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant No. 101142396). The MPIfR operates several world-class facilities, including the
100-m Effelsberg radio telescope
, also as a part of the European VLBI Network (EVN
) and the Global Millimetre VLBI Array (GMVA
); the LOFAR DE1 station, part of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR
); the APEX
telescope in Chile; the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT
); and a state-of-the-art Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) correlator.
POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (m/f/x) IN ASTROPHYSICS
The overarching goal of
MuSES
is to understand the physical processes near supermassive black holes that drive the launching and propagation of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The project aims to study the relationship between the fundamental properties of black holes, accretion disks, and the surrounding medium, including the processes of jet acceleration, collimation, and conversion from electromagnetic to kinetic energy domination. A key focus of the project is on the details of proton acceleration and neutrino production mechanisms. By combining several observational tools of modern multi-messenger astrophysics, we expect to make a breakthrough in understanding the role of black holes and relativistic outflows in the energy release in AGN, production of cosmic rays, and high-energy neutrino emission.

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