Research Fellow (110647-0725)

For informal enquiries, please contact David Armstrong (Associate Professor) d.j.armstrong@warwick.ac.uk

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.  

Fixed term contract until 14th December 2027. The role can start immediately.

The Department of Physics seeks to appoint a motivated and driven Research Fellow within the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group. Funding is immediately available for a start at the earliest convenience of the candidate. Applications for a part-time position will be considered. 

Candidates should submit with their application an up-to-date CV complete with publication list (maximum 2 pages plus publication list) and supporting cover letter. As part of the cover letter, please include a research statement describing past research, future research plans, and how they link to this project (one-two pages). Applications from underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged.

The successful candidate will work with the group of Dr David Armstrong on the project “Investigating the nature and origins of planets in the Neptunian Desert”. The post can flexibly focus on a number of relevant topics in the exoplanet field, including transits, radial velocities, planetary internal structure and population studies, including the effects of stellar activity on these areas, but should be focused towards building an understanding of Neptunian planets, particularly those in and near the Hot Neptune Desert.

The overall goal of the project is to build an unbiased statistical understanding of the planet population in and around the desert, in terms of planet radius, density, internal structure and potential formation and evolution pathways. Several new, extremely dense Neptune-size planets have been found in the desert and their formation pathways are unknown. The research undertaken in this project will enable observational constraints to be placed on the evolution pathways of those planets, as well as planet formation more widely, by studying the extreme outcomes of the planet formation process.

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 30th July 2025 at 23:55 (BST)

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the 'Apply' button.

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