Application Deadline: 3rd August 2018
Degree Funded: 3-year PhD
Funding Amount: R180,000 per year (plus support for tuition, equipment and travel).
Start of Funding: 2019
The SAAO Prize Scholarship is a prestigious annually awarded scholarship offered to a top South African student to work on a PhD project supervised by researchers at the SAAO. The scholarship is for a 3-year PhD registered at a South African university and the student will be required to spend a minimum of 60% of their time at the SAAO. The scholarship will cover tuition and a generous stipend for living expenses. Additional support for conference travel and equipment will be provided. .
Projects Offered:
- Probing galaxy evolution through diffuse light in dense environments
Supervisors: Ros Skelton (ros@saao.ac.za) and Sarah Blyth (UCT)/Ilani Loubser (NWU) : Project details - Observational studies of Centaurs, interesting and transitional minor planets
Supervisor: Amanda Sickafoose (amanda@saao.ac.za) : Project details - Discovery and Characterization of Near-Earth Asteroids
Supervisors: Amanda Sickafoose (amanda@saao.ac.za) and Nicolas Erasmus (nerasmus@saao.ac.za) : Project details - Optical and radio transient sources
Supervisors: Retha Pretorius (retha@saao.ac.za), David Buckley (dibnob@saao.ac.za), and Alida Odendaal (UFS; WinkA@ufs.ac.za) : Project details
Eligibility:
- The scholarship is currently open to South African citizens who hold, or are studying towards, an MSc degree in physics, astrophysics, or a closely related area (ideally with some astronomy background), and must be ready to register for a PhD at the start of the 2019 academic year.
- The applicant should send their CV, a letter of motivation and academic transcript to scholarship@saao.ac.za, and arrange for 2 letters of reference to be sent directly to scholarship@saao.ac.za by the closing date.
- The selection criteria will be academic merit, motivation, aptitude for research, transformation considerations, and results of the interview
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the SAAO Prize Scholarship 2019
