“PhD Studentship in High Energy Solar Physics”
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

The Solar Physics Group at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD studentship in the area of X-ray imaging of solar flares. The student will use images and spectra from NASA’s RHESSI mission to study the evolution of solar flares and their association with coronal mass ejections. In addition, the student will be involved in the development of X-ray imaging techniques for the Spectrometer-Telescope Imaging X-rays (STIX) instrument onboard ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft. Solar Orbiter, which is scheduled for launch in 2017, will fly inside the orbit of Mercury and enable us to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the Sun and solar energetic events.

This 3-year PhD studentship includes an annual stipend of EUR 16,000, payment of tuition fees of EUR 6,100, and an annual travel award of approximately EUR 2,000.

For general inquires and details of the application process, please contact Dr. Peter T. Gallagher (peter.gallagher@tcd.ie) and/or Dr. Shaun Bloomfield (shaun.bloomfield@tcd.ie). Further details on the research carried out in the group can be found at www.physics.tcd.ie/astrophysics.
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Peter T Gallagher
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Astrophysics Research Group
School of Physics
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin 2
Ireland

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