Postdoctoral position at Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris - CMB Lensing

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Karim Benabed
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Affiliation: Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Postdoctoral position at Institut d''Astrophysique de Paris

Post by Karim Benabed » December 19 2008

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral position at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris on the subject of gravitational lensing of the CMB.

The successful candidate will work with K. Benabed, S. Prunet and F. R. Bouchet on the scientific exploitation of the weak lensing effect in the Planck mission data. This will involve designing and implementing lensing estimators on the CMB, testing their efficiency against the expected/measured Planck systematics, and using them to extract a measurement of the lensing effect on the Planck data. This work will be part of a wider Planck Consortium project on the weak lensing in the Planck Data.

The candidate is expected to also interact with C. Pichon, on the use of massive N-Body simulations for CMB lensing, and the use of inverse methods to build lensing estimators, and with Y. Mellier, on the possible cross-correlation between the CMB lensing measurements and galaxy shear from the CFHTLS.

This position is funded for 24 months.

Applications will include a curriculum vitae, a short past research and current interests summary, a list of publication and 3 letters of reference, and must be sent before January 30, 2009.
Electronic documents and applications are preferred. Please specify “CMB Lensing postdoc” in the subject line.

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