Astrophysics Jobs Rumor Mill - Faculty & Staff
Postdoc & Term Page - Previous Years
Even if you find disappointing news here, please remember that you still do good work and are probably absolutely crushing it in your current position. Your research is cool!
To edit the page anonymously, do not be logged in.
If you register for an account on the wiki and login, you can Monitor the page by clicking on the eyeball in the upper right and receive email notifications of changes.
You can add new rows by right clicking within the table.
Please include a link to the job when adding it to the list.
If possible, include names and dates when offers are made and accepted, since this helps to differentiate wrong rumors from right ones. Use boldface only to indicate when a position has been accepted.
If a rumor you put on keeps getting removed by someone else, and that rumor is not about you, please respect that person’s wishes. They might have reasons to keep it private and/or the rumor might be wrong.
The rumors posted here are often not 100% accurate. If you need to make an important time-critical decision based on the status of a job opening, we strongly encourage you to get your information from the official search committee, not this page.
We have chosen to adopt a hands-off policy for the Rumor Mill; however, you may email the admin if you encounter technical difficulties.
Tenure Track Faculty Positions
Americas
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
|---|---|
| Central Michigan University. Tenure-track assistant professor in Astronomy (ad) | Application deadline, January 2nd, 2024. |
|
Rice University, Tenure-track assistant professor position in Planetary Science (ad) |
Application deadline Nov 1, 2023 |
| American University, Assistant/Associate Professor of Physics (ad) | Application deadline October 15, 2023 |
| Arizona State University, Open-Rank Planetary Science Professor (open to all related subfields in the natural sciences or engineering) (ad) | Initial application deadline October 19, 2023. See ad for full details and application requirements. Letter requested Nov 17th. |
| U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Open-Rank position in Observational Astronomy (ad) | Review of applications begins Nov 1st. |
| U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Open-Rank position in AI/ML in any area of Physics or Astronomy (ad) | Review of applications begins Jan 2nd. |
| Bard College, Assistant Professor of Computational Physics (ad) | Due Oct 2, 2023. Zoom interview requested Oct 13. |
| Bates College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Due 11/1/2023. Zoom interview requested Nov 8. |
| UC Berkeley, Assistant Professor – Gravitational Waves – Department of Physics (ad) | Application due Nov. 26, 2023 |
| Boston University, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) |
Experimental or observational cosmology. Review of applications officially begins 11/1/2023, but applications are still being accepted. |
| Boston University, Assistant Professor of Astronomy (ad) | Due 11/1. Any news? |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory, two junior tenure-track positions (ad) | Broad search for two (2) new Cosmology & Astrophysics Group members. Review of applications will begin 18 December, 2023. |
| Brown University, Assistant Professor of Planetary Science (ad) | Application due Sept 25, 2023. Letter requested. |
|
Carleton College, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (ad) |
Application due Sep 15, 2023. Any news? First round of rejects sent Oct 5. Finalists identified. Offer made. |
| Carnegie Observatories, Staff Astronomer (ad) | Applications due Nov 3 2023. References will be contacted only for applicants who made the first cut (anyone yet? No, and we won't hear for a few weeks at least). Any further updates? |
| Caltech, Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Solar System Geophysics & Atmospheres or Solid Earth Geology & Geophysics (ad) |
Applications due Oct 1st, 2023. Zoom interview requested Oct 31st. Received over 100 applications; 10 contacted for Zoom interviews. Some longlisted candidates sent rejections Dec 9. |
| University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences (ad) | Applications due Dec 4, 2023 |
| Colorado College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Two positions (computational, experimentalist), due Oct 13, 2023. Any news? |
| Columbia University Assistant professor in astronomy (ad) | Due Dec 3 |
| Cornell University, Assistant Professor in observational astronomy, especially extragalactic (ad) | Review of applications will begin Nov 15, 2023. Any updates? |
| Eastern Kentucky University, Assistant Professor in Physics (ad) | Review of applications will begin Nov 1, 2023. |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Assistant Professor in Astrophysics (ad) | Due Nov 14, 2023. |
| Harvard University, Assistant Professor in Astronomy (ad) | Due Nov 13, 2023. Any news? Last year there was no news until they contacted the short list in January. |
| Illinois Institute of Technology (ad) | Review of applications will begin Jan 1, 2024 |
| University of Florida, Assistant Professor in Time-domain Astronomy (ad) | Due Dec 5, 2023 |
|
University of Florida, Associate or Full Professor in technology development or instrumentation (ad) |
Due Jan 15, 2024 |
| Georgia Tech, AI+Physics (ad) | Due Dec 1, 2023. Longlist contacted for interviews. |
| University of Hawai'i Tenure-track assistant astronomer (Manoa) (ad) | Due November 17, 2023. Long list contacted for interviews (December 7-11) |
| University of Hawai'i Tenure-track assistant astronomer (Hilo) (ad) | Due November 17, 2023 |
| Open Area, Open Rank, Tenure-Line Professor of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ad) | Application deadline Nov 8, 2023. Any News? |
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Tenure-track assistant professor in Theory: time domain, multi-messanger astrophysics or related fields (ad) | Applications due December 31, 2023 |
| Michigan State University, Assistant Professor in Astronomy (ad) | Due Nov 15, 2023. Long list notified 12/1. |
| Middlebury College, Faculty Fellow in Astronomy & Astrophysics (ad) | Due 11/1. Some people contacted for Zoom interviews on Dec 8. |
| United States Naval Academy, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, open to all physics subfields but astrophysics or nuclear physics are of greater interest (ad) | Application review begins October 1, 2023. Some video call interview requests sent last week of October. Some campus visits scheduled. |
| Providence College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Due Oct 6, 2023. Zoom interview requests sent Oct 16, some rejects Nov 6 |
| University of Iowa, Assistant Professor in Space-Based Particle Experiments (ad) |
The Department of Physics and Astronomy seeks a high energy particle physicist with involvement in space-based experiments. This is a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor scheduled to begin in the Fall of 2024. Due Nov. 28, 2023 |
| University of Iowa, Assistant Professor in Observational Astronomy (ad) | Application review begins Nov 28, 2023. |
| W.M. Keck Science Department, Assistant Professor (ad) | Application deadline October 1st, 2023. Any news? |
| University of Oklahoma, two Assistant or Associate Professor positions in Astronomy/Astrophysics (ad) | Application review begins December 9, 2023; positions open until filled. |
| Oregon State University, Tenure Track in Astrophysics (ad) | All materials by Dec 4, 2023 |
| Penn State University tenure-track faculty position in astronomy & astrophysics (ad) | Due December 6, 2023 |
| Princeton Assistant Professor in Gravitational/High-Energy physics (ad) | Due Nov 15. Any news? |
|
University of South Carolina, Open-rank Professor in observational astronomy (ad)
|
Application deadline: December 1, 2023 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor in Astrophysical Instrumentation and Technology (ad) | Application deadline: Dec 15, 2023 |
| Skidmore College, Assistant Professor of Physics (scientific computation/data science) (ad) |
Due 10/31 |
| Stanford University, Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences |
Application deadline, Oct 30th, 2023. Zoom interview request Nov 17th. |
| Stanford University, Assistant Professor of Geophysics | Application deadline, Oct 30th, 2023. |
| SUNY Oswego, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | |
| SUNY New Paltz, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Application deadline: December 1st, 2023 |
|
Stanford University, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics/Theoretical Astrophysics (ad) |
Application deadline: Nov 1st, 2023. Any news? |
| Union College, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (ad) |
Application deadline October 1, 2023. Zoom interviews conducted October 11-13, 2023 Any news? |
| University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (ad) | Application deadline November 30, 2023 |
| University of California San Diego, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ad) |
Application deadline October 20, 2023. Some candidates contacted for Zoom interviews. Some candidates contacted for in-person interviews 12/1. |
| University of California San Diego, Associate or Full Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ad) | Application deadline November 30, 2023. |
| University of Cincinnati (ad), Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Astrophysics | Application review begins December 15, 2023 |
| University of Michigan, Assistant Professor of Astronomy (ad) |
Application deadline October 15, 2023. Some candidates contacted (via email) for reference letters. Any updates since mid-Nov? |
| University of Toronto, Assistant Professor in Astrophysics (ad) | Application deadline November 6, 2023. Any news? |
| University of Toronto (CITA), Associate Professor in Cosmology (ad) | Application deadline November 14, 2023 |
| Weber State University, Two Assistant Professors of Astronomy/Astrophysics (ad) | Application review begins January 16, 2024 |
| Williams College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Due Oct. 15, 2023. |
| University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy (ad) | Due 11/1 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Astronomy (ad) | Due Tuesday, January 16, 2024 |
| Occidental College, Assistant Professor of Physics | Deadline 11/1 Any news? |
| Tufts University, Faculty in Cosmology (ad) | Application deadline Nov 15, 2023 |
| University of Waterloo, Assistant Professors in Astrophysics (ad) | Application deadline December 1, 2023. |
| Vassar College, Assistant Professor of Physics (ad) | Due November 6th 2023 |
| Yale University, Assistant/Associate Professor, Planetary Science (ad) | Due November 5, 2023 |
Europe
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
|---|---|
| University of Birmingham, UK, Assistant Professorship in Stellar and Exoplanetary sciences (ad) |
Application deadline: September 17, 2023. Shortlist invited for in-person interviews (September 21). Interviews: October 18-19. Shortlist includes: Warwick Ball, Jasmina Blecic, Nora Eisner, Baptiste Klein, Ryan MacDonald, Anjali Piette Offer made and accepted. |
| University of Oxford, UK, Associate Professor of Physics of Exoplanet Atmospheres (ad) |
Application deadline: July 10, 2023. Shortlist includes: Mark Hammond, Thaddeus Komacek, Sarah Moran, Anjali Piette, Jessica Spake. |
|
Tenured/Tenure-track positions at ISTA, Klosterneuburg, Austria (ad) |
Deadline October 25, 2023. Some (not all) requests for recommendation letters sent (10th nov). Have candidates for whom letters are requested been contacted? Answer: No, it is an informal update given by the suggested contacts for the letters. |
| University of Vienna, Austria, Tenure-Track, Data Science Pathways to Galaxy Evolution (ad) | Application deadline: December 22, 2023 |
| Plumian professorship, cambridge (ad) |
Deadline 15th Oct. Any news? This is not a tenure track position. |
| KU Leuven, Belgium, Professor in Asteroseismology, Binary Evolution & Gravitational-Wave Progenitors (ad) | Deadline 15th Nov 2023 |
East Asia
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
|---|---|
|
NAOJ (Tokyo/Kamioka) Associate Professor (senior lecturer) in gravitational wave science (ad) |
Application deadline October 31st 2023 |
| Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA), Taiwan, Faculty positions in Observation, Theory, and Instrumentation (ad) | Application deadline January 15, 2024 |
Australia
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
|---|---|
|
University of Melbourne (ad) |
Due July 27, 2023. Shortlist includes Anastasia Sokolenko |
Science Staff and Management Positions
| Place/Institution (alphabetical) | People (in boldface if accepted) |
|---|---|
| Lead Scientist for Fermi Science Support Center (ad) | Due Nov. 19, 2023. Any news? |
| Gemini Observatory, Chief Scientist (ad) | Due June 29, 2023. Zoom interviews in late September/early October |
| Caltech/IPAC, Staff Scientist for Roman Telescope (ad) | Due Oct 6, 2023. |
| NASA Goddard, Deputy Project Scientist for Communications for Roman Telescope (ad) | Due August 14, 2023. Any news? |
Faculty Shuffle
| Person (alphabetical) | Old Institution | New Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Shazrene Mohamed | University of Miami | University of Virginia |