China cannot find a sufficiently qualified specialist to run its new super-telescope

Almaty. August 8. Silkroadnews – China cannot find a sufficiently qualified person to run its new super-telescope, the British newspaper “The Register” reported.
China cannot find anyone who have relevant qualification to run its new radio telescope. Assembled last year, the FAST telescope, which is 500 meters in diameter, has become the world’s largest radio telescope with a continuous aperture, the report said.
It is noted that the telescope needs precise tuning and calibration.
When the construction was completed, almost 10 thousand people had to be taken away from the device far away to avoid contamination by electromagnetic signals. Nevertheless, the telescope still needs calibration and fine tuning. Unfortunately, it turned to be a problematic to find duly qualified specialists. So now the vacancy is open to foreign scientists working outside of China. Candidates can be of any nationality and have any citizenship, the report said quoting a staff member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It is reported that a successful candidate will receive 80-million-yuan research funding ($1.2 million), very high salary, free housing and other benefits. For this position, the Chinese Academy of Sciences would like to see a professor with 20 years of experience in the field of radio astronomy.
The requirements are very high, thus, most of the candidates fall away immediately. It turns out that a handful of people in the world have the relevant qualification to run the telescope. According to Wang Tinggui, professor of astrophysics at the University of Science and Technology of China, “It is not a job for a scientist. It’s for a superhero”.
According to the publication, the telescope will be used to study pulsars, obtain the weakest of existing radio waves in the universe, and search for extraterrestrial life.