Application Deadline: 31 July 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. The advertisement for the scholarship can be found here . .
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
Further information about the scholarship application procedure and scholarship rules can be found here . You are strongly encouraged to contact potential supervisors to discuss the project before applying. Contact scholarship@saao.ac.za if you have further queries.
Eligibility:
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), and must be ready to register for a PhD at the
start of the 2020 academic year (typically the end of February 2020).
Application:
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.
Degree Funded: 3-year PhD
Funding Amount: R180,000 per year (plus support for tuition, equipment and travel).
Start of Funding: 2020
Applications Open: 10 June 2019
Applications Close: 31 July 2019
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the SAAO Prize Scholarships 2019/2020