Job Vacancies and Information for Prospective Staff and Postgraduate Students

For further Postgraduate enquiries please email :  postgradenq@physics.otago.ac.nz

Current Staff Positions Available

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Postgraduate Opportunities and Information

The Physics Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand, has openings in our PhD and MSc programmes for talented students. Positions are available in both experimental and theoretical areas in Physics, Electronics and Energy Management. More information on our research activities can be found under the research section of the website.

Interested students should examine the information at the University of Otago's Postgraduate Student webpage to learn more about undertaking post-graduate research at New Zealand's top-ranked university for research quality. Early in the process students should contact members of the research group to informally discuss available projects.

Some useful links for prospective students:

Information for Postgraduate Students at Otago

Scholarships Information at Otago

Current Scholarships Available

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Space Physics Group

The Space Physics group at the Physics Department, University of Otago has a funded PhD student position available. The position is funded through the European Union FP7 project "A new, ground based data-assimilative modeling of the Earth's plasmasphere - a critical contribution to Radiation Belt modeling for Space Weather purposes". This project includes multiple institutions worldwide, including Europe, the USA, South Africa and New Zealand. The student's research will be part of a work package inside this project, under the supervision of Associate Professor Craig J. Rodger. The PhD student is intended to start from 1 August 2011 and the position will remain open until it is filled.

The project will investigate the precipitation of energetic electrons from the Van Allan radiation belts into the atmosphere and their dependence upon changing plasmaspheric properties. In particular the project will use data from both space based and ground based instruments to characterise precipitation events to determine the typical range of properties. The study will be conducted at the University of Otago in strong collaboration with the work package leader from the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK). It is possible that the project will involve a period visiting the British Antarctic Survey, and may also involve instrument maintenance trips in Antarctica and/or the Arctic.

Information on the group can be found at its webpage:

       http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/nx/space/space-physics-home.html

Note that an important part of the project will exploiting data from AARDDVARK network. More information on this can be found here:

       http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/space/AARDDVARK_homepage.htm

Further information on studentship and the application process is given at: http://www.physics.otago.ac.nz/nx/space/fp7-plasmon-phd-student-position.html

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Electronics Group

Ph.D scholarship (3 years @ 25,000 per year)

MSc scholarship (1 year @ 15,000 per year)

For further information please go to http://elec.otago.ac.nz/w/index.php/Scholarships