The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is hiring a postdoctoral researcher to investigate young star-planet systems through their flaring activity and magnetic interactions, developing detection methods for exoplanets based on their magnetic influence on host stars. Work includes compiling stellar flaring catalogs from space-based photometry, identifying transiting planet candidates, and constraining rotational and magnetic axis orientations, as part of a small team led by Dr. Ekaterina Ilin. Candidates must hold a PhD in physics or astrophysics with prior observational astronomy experience, ideally including space-based optical photometry; remuneration follows EG 13 TVöD-Bund.
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