3 Positions as PhD Research fellow (Stipendiat SKO 1017) available at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. The fellowships are for a period of up to 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work. Starting date no later than 01.10.2014.

The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA) of the University of Oslo has strong research groups within solar physics and cosmology, both of which perform top class research that has won prestigious ERC grants. ITA is also involved in several ongoing and future satellite projects, and conducts extensive observational campaigns from ground based telescopes. In addition, both groups are heavily engaged in computational research, both using national and international supercomputers and using internal infrastructure.The solar physics group offers three Phd projects: One has as its goal to use the high performance computer code Bifrost to simulate reconnection and investigate the distribution of their volume and frequency as a function of height. Another project will investigate the difference between the two observational families of coronal loops, the observed constituent of the solar corona, so called “overdense” and the “underdense loops”, through large scale simulations of the solar atmosphere. A mainly observational project is tied to the observation of the layer between the photosphere and corona and aims to advance our understanding of the chromosphere by combining high resolution observations from the ground with the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope on La Palma and from space with NASA’s IRIS satellite.Details and application instructions can be found on http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1149067/64278?iso=no