The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Chemical Abundances in Stars”. The contract is funded by the project “Stellar interactions and nucleosynthesis in the era of large surveys” (LCF/BQ/PI23/11970031), led by Dr. Ana Escorza, and by the project “Explotación científica de NIRPS y DESI: espectroscopía de alta resolución para estudiar exoplanetas y las estrellas más primitivas de la Vía Láctea” (PID2023-149982NB-I00), led by Dr Jonay González Hernández.

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. 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 will pursue research in the following fields:

• Chemical abundances of low- and intermediate-mass stars.
• Analysis of data from the Gaia mission: astrometry, photometry and RVS spectroscopy.
• Neutron-capture elements (produced by the s-, i- and r-processes) and their different astrophysical origins.
• Galactic distribution of stars enriched in these elements, from the most primitive and most metal-poor stars in the halo to the more metal-rich bulge and disk stars.

Particular attention will be given to applicants with experience in the field of stellar spectroscopy of neutron-capture elements with different spectral resolutions.