(ECNS) -- China's gravitational wave research project "Tianqin" is looking for global researchers and offering annual salaries of up to 1 million yuan ($153,000).
The research fields include gravitational theories, space gravitational experiments, and high precision detecting.
The project hopes to recruit advanced overseas professionals, young overseas talents, professors (including the Yangtze River Scholar Professors), associate professors, instructors, researchers and postdoctor fellows.
Team leaders in five areas, including drag-free control and lunar laser ranging, are to have annual salaries of between 500,000 to 1 million yuan.
The discovery of gravitational waves in the United States by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has driven China to accelerate research.
Tianqin was initiated by Sun Yat-sen University at its Zhuhai campus in July 2015.
With an estimated cost of 15 billion yuan, Tianqin will be carried out in four stages over the next 15 to 20 years, ultimately launching three high-orbit satellites to detect the waves.
The project will soon start construction of a number of facilities, including an observatory and a laboratory on Fenghuang Mountain in Zhuhai City.
Luo Jun, president of Sun Yat-sen University and the initiator of Tianjin, said the project has allied with several domestic universities and institutes, and has also begun cooperating with international researchers, including core members of LIGO.
