Coordinator of job opportunities: Prof. Riccardo Argurio (BE)

One of the aims of the present network is to support mobility of young researchers both at the post-doctoral level and at the PhD level. Though the network does not provide direct funding for such long term mobility, most of the participating institutes can provide fellowships at both levels. In this page, we collect information on the open positions. Applications for post-doctoral positions are typically made in the fall, while applications for PhD positions during the spring.

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POST DOC APPLICATIONS 2015 FOR POSITIONS STARTING AUTUMN 2016

Joint postdoc applications related to theories on the unification of fundamental interactions: postdoc-application website. 

This on-line application procedure combines the postdoc applications to the following  European institutes:

•   Amsterdam
•   Barcelona 
•   Bern 
•   Brussel
•   Bruxelles 
•   Copenhagen NBI
•   Crete
•   Central Italy node (Firenze - Parma - Perugia - Pisa)
•   Durham
•   Groningen:  (Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity)
•   Hannover:  (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
•   Imperial College London
•   Jerusalem
•   Leiden
•   Leuven
•   Milano Bicocca
•   München: www.physik.uni-muenchen.de  and wwwth.mppmu.mpg.de
•   Nordita, Stockholm
•   Oviedo
•   SISSA Trieste
•   Saclay (IPhT)
•   Southampton
•   Technion-Haifa 
•   Utrecht
•   Vienna
•   Weizmann

Additional European institutes participating in the action but with a separate application procedure are the following:

1. One Postdoc position at the University of Bern, in the group led by Matthias Blau, in string theory and quantum gravity, or topological field theory and mathematical physics. Postdoc Positions website.
2. Postdoc positions at ETH Zurich, AEI Potsdam, University of Bern and Trinity College Dublin in quantum field theory, quantum gravity, string theory, conformal field theory and integrability.
3. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy

   5 Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Theoretical Physics in various
   University/INFN Departments:
   BOLOGNA: Quantum Fields for Gravity, Cosmology and Black Holes
   MILANO BICOCCA :Gauge Theories, Supergravity and String Theory
   PAVIA: Geometrical Methods in Quantum Field Theories and Applications
   PERUGIA: Non-Perturbative Dynamics in Gauge and String Theory 
   TORINO: String Theory and its Applications

   Applications info through the website [1]  (Call n. 16726) with deadline 15/11/2014. Contact Person: Anna Ceresole (ceresole@to.infn.it)

4. the Geometry and Mathematical Physics group at SISSA offers a
   postdoctoral position for 2+1 years. All the details can be found at Geometry and Mathematical Physics Group website. The deadline for applications is December 10, 2014.
5. Portugal: CAMGSD (IST Lisbon) has opened a call for 2 postdoctoral position in
   Mathematics (including mathematicall physics/string theory) for 2015/2016. Deadline 20/03/2015. CAMGSD — Call 2015 website.

Ph.D. APPLICATIONS 2014

PhD positions in the institutes participating to the action, starting in the fall of 2014, will be advertised here

Austria:

1. Vienna-wide Doctoral program, Vienna (Austria). Vienna Doctoral Program "Particle and Interactions".

Belgium:

1. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium). Part of the international doctoral school "Quantum Field Theory, Gravity and Strings". Jobs website. Information for fall 2015: One position. Deadline: 30/4/15.
2. KU Leuven, Belgium. PhD program: Arenberg Doctoral School. Contact person: Thomas Hertog <Thomas.Hertog@fys.kuleuven.be>. See also website. Information for fall 2015: Number of positions 2. Deadline March 1, 2015.

Germany:

1. Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. PhD positions regularly available via the DFG Research Training Group (GK 1940) ‘Particle Physics Beyond the Standard Model’. Please send your applications directly to Arthur Hebecker (A.Hebecker@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de) or Timo Weigand (t.weigand@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de)
2. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. For applications to PhD positions in Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory and String Theory please follow the instructions on the website of the Graduate School "Symmetry Breaking in Fundamental Interactions"  and contact Profs. Johannes Henn (henn@uni-mainz.de), Stefan Weinzierl (weinzierl@uni-mainz.de) or Gabriele Honecker (Gabriele.Honecker@uni-mainz.de) directly.

Ireland:

1. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Ph.D. positions in theoretical physics at the School of Mathematics. Information for fall 2015: 3 positions starting at the fall of 2015. Deadline: March 1, 2015.

Israel:

1. The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. HET Group website. Graduate school website.  M.Sc. program deadline is around March annually. Ph.D. program - registration year round with the string theory, pheno. or HEX groups.
2. The Technion string theory group has several M.Sc. and Ph.D. positions. The deadline for registering to the M.Sc. and Ph.D. program is Nov.1 and April 1. Registration for the Ph.D. program can be done all year round. Information on the graduate school at the Technion.
3. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The theoretical high energy group, is hiring Ph.D. students. Information for fall 2015: please contact before 31.3.2015.

Italy:

1. Universita' Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy), several positions, contact person
   Silvia Penati, interview via skype, Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini - Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy webpage
2. SISSA, Several positions, contact person Matteo Bertolini. Evaluation based on CV plus written and oral exam, which will take place at SISSA (travel expenses reimbursed up to 150 Euro).
   SISSA Website (see also "Ph.D course in Theoretical Particle Physics", “Philosophiae Doctor” Entrance Exams Academic Year 2014/15").

The Netherlands:

1. The Amsterdam String Theory Group will be hiring PhD students for positions starting in September 2015. Our group consists of 7 faculty members (Jan de Boer, Alejandra Castro, Miranda Cheng, Ben Freivogel, Diego Hofman, Jan Pieter van der Schaar and Erik Verlinde), 7 postdocs and 14 Phd students. Please follow the instructions provided in the link below to apply. Applications will be received from January 1st, 2015 to April 1st, 2015. University of Amsterdam website.

Portugal:

1. LisMath, a PhD program in Mathematics (including mathematical physics/string theory), Lisbon, Portugal. Several positions. Deadline 31/3/15. Lisbon Mathematics PhD. website.

Spain

1. The High Energy Physics Group of Oviedo University is offering a PhD student position. The positions are for three years with the possibility of extending it a fourth year. Interested candidates should send a CV and a short description of research interests to Carlos Hoyos hoyoscarlos@uniovi.es. Information for fall 2015: positions will start at the beginning of 2015.
    

Switzerland

1. CERN-TH as member of the NCCR Swissmap Program "The Mathematics of Physics". One full-time plus a few short-term PhD positions per year, in the field of formal/string theory.
   Contact: Kyriakos.Papadodimas@cern.ch .
   Theoretical Physics website.
2. the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. 2 positions. Contact person: Joao Penedones, apply.penedones@gmail.com.  Theoretical Physics - INSPIRE-HEP Website. 

UK

1. Durham University, UK. PhD positions in theoretical physics, follow the instructions at website and Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology website.
2. Imperial College, London, UK. PhD positions in theoretical physics,
   follow the instructions