For its ALMA Regional Centre at the Headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany, ESO is opening the position of

ALMA Regional Centre Astronomer

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 4 February, 2019.  

The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) will start the next cycle of observing (Cycle 7) in October 2019.

A Call for Proposals with detailed information on Cycle 7 will be issued in March 2019, with a deadline for proposal submission in April 2019. This pre-announcement highlights aspects of the Cycle 7 proposal call that are needed to plan proposals. More information can be found on the ALMA Science Portal.

ALMA Cycle 7 will introduce the new capabilites, Long baselines at Band 7 and Solar observations at Band 7

Key Dates:

• 19 March 2019 (15:00 UTC) - Call for proposals and OT release
• 17 April 2019 (15:00 UTC)  - Cycle 7 deadline
• End of July 2019 - Result of proposal reviews
• 5 September 2019 - Phase 2 submission deadline
• October 2019- Start of Cycle 7 observations
• September 2020 - End of Cycle 7 observations

Workshop Pre-Announcement: 

ALMA2019: science results and cross-facility synergies to be held 14-18 October 2019 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy - save the dates.

At this meeting we aim to once again bring together the world-wide ALMA community to discuss the observatory's recent scientific highlights, following the success of previous meetings held in 2012 in Puerto Varas, Chile; in 2014 in Tokyo, Japan; and in 2016 in Indian Wells, California, USA.

A first announcement with further information will be distributed in early 2019.

For the JAO Department of Science Operations (DSO) in Santiago and the OSF in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, the ALMA Observatory is opening the position of

Head of the ALMA Department of Science Operations

The closing date for receipt of applications to be considered for the position is 15 January, 2019.  

ALMA Post-Doctoral Fellow
JAO, Santiago - OSF, San Pedro de Atacama

The JAO is offering postdoctoral fellowship positions to join the ALMA science operations group in Santiago, Chile. ALMA Postdoctoral Fellows will be appointed for a period of three years and will spend 50% of their time dedicated to their personal scientific research. The remaining time will be spent in support of ALMA operations, including observing at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) near San Pedro de Atacama for hands-on interaction with the telescope.

The deadline for this vacancy is 1 December 2018.

The first of the new APEX facility receivers has been successfully installed at the telescope in August 2018. This new band 9 facility receiver for SEPIA records both sidebands simultaneously, with very good sideband rejection at the level of >15 dB at all frequencies (>20 dB in most cases). To test these new capabilities with real scientific observations, all APEX partners are inviting short science verification (SV) proposals (nominally a few hours, with a maximum of 5 hours). 

The Nordic ALMA Regional Centre node is looking for two permanent staff scientists (Senior Research Engineers). The successful applicants will be members of the Nordic ARC node and will be involved in all the regular activities within the node, in particular quality assessment of ALMA data from Nordic projects, face-to-face user support, software tool development, contact scientist activities, and community training and outreach.

Deadline for applications is September 30, 2018.

We are very pleased to welcome Francisca Kemper to ESO as the European ALMA Programme Scientist. Ciska will join ESO on 1 November 2018, and will act as the primary contact between the ALMA Observatory, the ESO ALMA Support Centre and the European astronomical community with respect to the scientific capabilities, mission and exploitation of the ALMA facility.