Deadline: July 31, 2019.

The SAAO Prize Scholarship is a prestigious annually awarded scholarship offered to a top African student to work on a PhD project supervised by researchers at the SAAO. The scholarship is for a 3-year PhD registered at a South African university and the student will be required to spend a minimum of 60% of their time at the SAAO. The scholarship will cover tuition and a generous stipend for living expenses. Additional support for conference travel and equipment will be provided.

 

PROJECTS OFFERED

• Mass Loss, Pulsation and Atmospheric Mixing in Intermediate Mass Stars
  Supervisors: John Menzies (jwm@saao.ac.za), Patricia Whitelock (SAAO and UCT; paw@saao.ac.za) : Project details
• 3D Simulations of Stellar Interactions
  Supervisor: Shazrene Mohamed (shazrene@saao.ac.za): Project details
• Planetary and substellar companions to Planetary nebulae and other post-AGB stars
  Supervisors: Brent Miszalski (brent@saao.ac.za) and Rajeev Manick (rajeev@saao.ac.za): Project details
• Transients in the LSST Era
  Supervisors: David Buckley (dibnob@saao.ac.za), Patrick Woudt (UCT; pwoudt@ast.uct.ac.za), and Brian
  van Soelen (UFS; VanSoelenB@ufs.ac.za): Project details
• Vertical structure evolution of spiral galaxy disks using optical and near-infrared
  integral field spectroscopy
  Supervisors: Matthew Bershady (mab@saao.ac.za): Project details
• Design, development and commissioning of a fibre slit-mask integral-field unit for
  SALT prime-focus spectrograph
  Supervisors: Matthew Bershady (mab@saao.ac.za): Project details

 

ELIGIBILITY

1. The scholarship is currently open to South Africans or citizens of other African countries who hold, or are studying towards, an MSc degree in physics, astrophysics, or a closely related area (ideally with some astronomy background).

2. Must be ready to register for a PhD at the start of the 2020 academic year (typically the end of February 2020).

 

FUNDING

Funding Amount: R180,000 per year (plus support for tuition, equipment and travel).

 

APPLICATION

1. Send your CV, motivation, academic transcript to scholarship@saao.ac.za and arrange for 2 reference letters to be sent to the same address by the closing date.

2. You are strongly encouraged to contact potential supervisors to discuss the project before applying. Contact scholarship@saao.ac.za if you have further queries.

 

OFFICIAL LINK

 

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