The IAC (Tenerife) invites applications for ONE postdoctoral contract to work on the project linked to the line of research “Black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and their local environment”. The contract is funded by the project “GOTO”, led by Drs. Jorge Casares, Josefa Becerra and Manuel Pérez Torres in collaboration with the University of Warwick (https://goto-observatory.org/).

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:

• Multi-messenger follow-up (gravitational waves, neutrinos), and/or another research activity directly related to the complimentary exploitation of the GOTO photometric database. In particular the candidate will undertake multi-wavelength follow-up and time-domain studies of GOTO transients. A key requirement of the candidate will be the successful exploitation of GOTO for Mini-HAWKs sources during its operation time.
• The candidate will serve as liaison for IAC researchers interested in exploiting the GOTO database for non-GW purposes. In particular, helping with querying the database and solving access issues to possible users.
• The candidate is expected to participate and coordinate follow-up observations of GOTO with other IAC projects related to GW/transient events. This includes the MAGIC and LST telescopes (also CTAO in the future), observing programs allocated to IAC researchers for GW science, LSST, and other time-domain projects. 
• The candidate is also expected to undertake some operational tasks related to software development on GOTO and, occasionally, on other Warwick telescope facilities on La Palma.

Particular attention will be given to applicants with experience in the field of time domain astrophysics and accreting binaries.