Experiments:XENON, FERMI-LAT, CTA, WFIRST, GAIA
Deadline: 2016-05-02
Region: Europe
Job description:
A PhD position is available in the research group for Cosmology, Particle astrophysics and String theory (CoPS) at the Department of Physics, Stockholm University. CoPS currently consists of 13 senior researchers, 35 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The CoPS group benefits greatly from its membership in the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics (OKC) and collaboration with the High-energy Physics and Gravitation and Cosmology groups of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita). The OKC main themes are the mysterious components of the energy budget of the Universe – dark matter and dark energy – as well as the study of the most extreme objects in the Universe such as supernovae and black holes.
The CoPS research activities, experimental, observational and theoretical, cover a very broad range of topics in fundamental research, such as gauge/gravity duality and string theory; gravitational theories and their implications for cosmology; dark matter phenomenology; galactic dynamics and big data; high energy gamma ray astronomy; supernova astrophysics and cosmology and experimental dark matter searches.
Applicants are invited to express any special interests for example in the research subfields above.
Note that the Department of Physics as a whole also announces two positions within any fields of Experimental or Theoretical Physics, including the CoPS subfields. Be sure to also apply to those, if you are interested.
For more details and instructions on how to apply, see the formal announcement. Note the subject line for reference letters: SU FV-0942-16 + name of the applicant.
More Information:http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/vacancies-new-list?rmpage=job&rmjob=1267&rmlang=UK