We're hiring !

Just when I thought I was finally done for the year, I end up giving a seminar to some visiting PhD students yesterday morning. With a flight in the afternoon I wasn't planning to come it at all that day, but oh well... they enjoyed it anyway. One of them said it was one of the best talks they'd ever had !

[Readers will have to imagine me in a suitably heroic pose of the non-Blackadder variety at this point]

Seminars are now extremely useful though, as due to a surfeit of riches at the Czech Academy of Sciences they decided to fund all three of our group's grant applications. So I get a higher salary and the group is now searching for three (!) new postdocs : one in star formation in the galactic centre, one in star formation in clusters, and one in optically dark hydrogen clouds that don't do anything (you can guess which one is mine). Anyone want to become my assistant and fetch me tea on demand carry out important research in galaxy evolution ? Starts mid 2019, guaranteed funding until the end of 2021 with a healthy travel budget. We're also looking for an additional postdoc for ALMA-related things. More details to follow should we have trouble finding people (obviously I am not relying on blog posts to find postdocs because that would be completely mad).

In other news I won this year's institutional Jan Fric (the founder of the institute) award, so I get another shiny award ceremony in January (and another seminar...). And my position is now, if not exactly tenure track, on a rather more permanent basis that a postdoc position. Must be doing something right... of course, I expect Brexit will completely bugger the whole thing up, and then I will be sad. Until then I shall be enjoying Christmas.