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Pubblicato il 19-10-2026 - Ciencia in Italia
Vacancy for Director General of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)
Vacancy for Director General of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO)
Call for Director General of CTAO. (Astronomy, cosmology & space science)
Personal: Tempo pieno
We are seeking a leading international scientist (m/f/d) to serve as the Director General of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory a future European Research Infrastructure Consortium.
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory ERIC (hereafter CTAO ERIC) is an international research infrastructure in the process of being finalized, envisaged as a general‑purpose observatory for VHE waveband with full sky coverage based on two sites, one in the Northern hemisphere and one in the Southern hemisphere. The CTAO ERIC combined telescope array performance will guarantee a rewarding harvest of scientific results about our vision of the high‑energy universe and contribute to providing answers to unsolved fundamental questions of physics, which can be grouped in three broad themes:
Understanding the origin and role of cosmic rays.
Probing extreme cosmic environments via very high energy gamma rays.
Exploring frontiers of fundamental physics including the nature and distribution of dark matter.
The CTAO ERIC Headquarters will be located in Bologna (Italy) and its facilities will be located in: Canary Islands, Spain, (North Observation Site); Antofagasta Region, Chile (South Observation Site, hosted and operated by the European Southern Observatory - ESO), Zeuthen, Germany, (Science and Data Management Centre).
The Governments of 9 countries and one intergovernmental organisation, listed as follow, support the final submission to the European Commission for the establishment of the CTA Observatory ERIC as Founding Full Member: Republic of Italy, (leading the ERIC founding establishment process), Austria, Czech Republic, European Southern Observatory (IGO), Republic of France, Federal Republic of Germany, Republic of Poland,