
The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher within the Leibniz Junior Research Group led by Dr Lara Cullinane “Chronicling the Clouds: Chemodynamics of the most massive dwarf galaxies”. The position will focus on chemical tagging in the Magellanic Clouds, building up a detailed picture of their star formation history and chemical evolution. Analysis will primarily focus on a comprehensive set of high-resolution stellar spectra from a new survey of the Magellanic Clouds with the 4MOST facility. The successful applicant will assess the origin of stars (as either formed in-situ, or accreted), characterising the Clouds’ earliest chemical evolution and how this has subsequently been impacted by both secular processes and dynamical interactions.