Student Research Assistant
Job Title: (STDT 3 EXC)
Working Job Title: Student Research Assistant
Payroll title: STDT 3
Payrate: $20.00/hr to start
# of Openings: 1
Desired start date: 6/22/26
Job description:
The Undergraduate student will work on a summer project in Professor Kyle Kremer’s astrophysics research group. The project will involve running and analyzing N-body simulations of dense stellar clusters and exploring implications for gravitational wave sources and electromagnetic transients.
Qualifications:
The student should have expertise in performing N-body simulations of globular clusters and analyzing the formation of black hole binaries in these environments. Additionally, the student should have familiarity with LIGO/Virgo catalog of gravitational wave sources.
Competencies:
- Critical Thinking/Problem Solving- Identifies important problems and questions and gathers, analyzes, evaluates information from a variety of sources before forming a strategy, decision, or opinion
- Research Ability- Accesses and evaluates multiple sources of information, including text and images, and synthesizes information to solve problems and create new insights.
- Oral, Written, & Digital Communication-Conveys meaning and responds to needs of diverse audiences through writing and speaking coherently and effectively, and develops the expression of ideas through written, oral and digital mediums.
Must pay UCSD Student Services fees each quarter working.
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