The IAC (Tenerife) announces ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Operación y explotación científica de instalaciones telescópicas para las Instituciones Usuarias de los Observatorios de Canarias ("Tratado Internacional de Coop. en Astrofísica y su Protocolo"). The contract is funded by the project “IAC-NOT Agreement” (P/301503), led by the scientific manager Dr. Alex Oscoz.

Research topics at the IAC include most areas of astrophysics: Solar Physics (FS), Exoplanetary System and Solar System (SEYSS), Stellar and Interstellar Physics (FEEI), The Milky Way and The Local Group (MWLG), Formation and Evolution of Galaxies (FYEG), and Cosmology and Astroparticles (CYA-CTA). All of these are supported by an ambitious instrumentation programme. In 2020, the IAC was granted by the Spanish Government the status of Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence, a prestigious recognition awarded for the third time to the IAC as a leading research institute in Spain. Further information about the IAC's research programme, its Observatories and the 10.4m GTC is available at the IAC's web page: https://www.iac.es/en

Tasks: The successful candidate, whose job will be based on the island of La Palma, will carry out the following specific tasks:

• Regular observations alone or with visiting astronomers, especially at the NOT telescope, but also at other facilities.
• Maintenance and monitoring of the quality of the Telescopes, Instruments and Experiments associated with the aforementioned project.
• Development of remote control software for said instruments, as well as software for precise and friendly reduction of the data obtained with them.
• Calibration of the responses of the instruments to observations of different objects.
• Writing manuals for users, both for those with no experience and for experts.
• Proposal, development and tuning of improvements in the instrumentation.
• Collaboration with the Telescopic Operations Group in the tasks carried out by said group.

Previous experience as a Support Astronomer and interest in astronomical instrumentation will be especially valued.