Group & Job opportunities

Group members

PI	Silvia Toonen
Marie-Curie Fellow	Tjarda Boelholt
Postdoc	Sergio Gomes
PhD student	Caspar Bruenech
PhD student	Adam Parkosidis
Summer student	Amitav Das
Summer student	Muhammad Akmal Husain

Former group members

		Continued as
Veni-Fellow	Eva La Place	Prof. at KU Leuven
Veni-Fellow	Jan van Roestel	PD at ISTA
Marie-Curie Fellow	Tomer Shenar	Prof. at Tel Aviv University
Newton Fellow	Yan Gao
Rubicon fellow	Valeriya Korol	staff at SRON
PhD student	Floris Kummer
PhD student	Andris Doroszmai	PD at NAOJ
MSc student	Philip Garcia Hoogland
MSc student	Jorge Romera
MSc student	Guido Hanegraaf
MSc student	Tibi Keizer
MSc student	Antonis Katechakis
MSc student	Michael Stroet	PhD at Armagh
MSc student	Gabriel Simion
MSc student	Adam Parkosidis	PhD in my group
MSc student	Maitrey Patel
MSc student	Tom Konijn	PhD in Delft
MSc student	Sancho Luijten	PhD at Weizmann Institute of Science
MSc student	Cameron Barrett
MSc student	Samuel Higginbotham
MSc student	Abbie Nichols
MSc student	Jake Winter
MSc student	Karel Temmink	PhD at Radboud University
BSc student	Gideon Kokosky Deforchaux
BSc student	Chris Keijzer
BSc student	Luc Krebbers
BSc student	Rick Limmen
Summer student	Sebastian Gonzalez-Zamora
Summer student	Magdalena Vilaxa Campos	PhD at Radboud University
Summer student	Diganta Bandopadhyay	PhD at University of Birmingham
Summer student	Brandon Curd	PhD at Harvard

Job opportunities

Are you interested in stellar interactions and transients? Come and join us in Amsterdam! Our department is rapidly growing, and we're seeking strong and motivated candidates to join our team. If you are interested in joining or interacting with my group and the department, I encourage you to send me a mail at toonen [at] uva.nl. A few job opportunities are listed below. I'm happy to support and help with the application.

• PhD positions at the Anton Pannekoek Institute
• GRAPPA postdoctoral fellowship for an independent research position for three years in the areas of astroparticle physics, cosmology and gravitation.
• Veni fellowship competitive Dutch national fellowship for early career PDs.
• Vidi fellowship competitive Dutch national fellowship towards leadership position.
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions , European fellowship towards leadership position.

There are options for visits and summer internships as well (see e.g. our ASPIRE program). If you're interested, send me a mail at toonen [at] uva.nl to discuss the posibilities.

Tips for writing proposals

• Great seminar given by my former colleague Sera Markoff on "How to apply for stuff".
• Tips for the early career stage in general by Bryan Gaensler and Sarah Maddison.