2023 - 2024 Jansky Fellowship Program for Engineers
2023 - 2024 Jansky Fellowship Program for Engineers supports postdoctoral engineers’ independent research and team collaboration to develop innovative instrumentation for exploring the Universe at radio wavelengths.
Funder: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Due Dates: Rolling (Open application process)
Funding Amounts: 2023–2024 starting salary: $70,500; two years, potentially renewable for a third; up to $17,000 annually for research support
Summary: Supports postdoctoral engineers developing innovative radio astronomy instrumentation through independent research and collaboration with NRAO engineering teams.
Key Information: Fellows devote up to 75% of their time to self-directed research and the balance to CDL team activities.
Description
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) offers Jansky Engineering Fellowships to postdoctoral engineers whose research advances innovative instrumentation for exploring the Universe at radio wavelengths. The program is centered at NRAO’s Central Development Laboratory (CDL) in Charlottesville, Virginia, where engineering and technical teams develop technologies for radio telescopes.
Research interests include electromagnetic devices and their 3-D printing, superconducting electronics, low-noise cryogenic amplifiers, digital signal processing and design, mixed-signal receivers and ASIC development, RF engineering, frequency and timing distribution, millimeter- and submillimeter-wave receivers, and finite-element electromagnetic simulation. Active research also includes Traveling Wave Kinetic Inductance Amplifiers. Fellows combine self-directed research with laboratory team activities, building expertise and collaborations that help them establish themselves as independent research engineers and scientists.
