Region: Asia
Job description:
The faculty members in the string theory group at TIFR currently are Gautam Mandal, Shiraz Minwalla and Sandip Trivedi. Our group also usually has 4-5 post doctoral fellows and about 9 Phd students at any time.
We expect to make up to two new post doctoral appointments for positions starting in Aug 2017. Appointments are made initially for one year and are renewable for up to 3 years.
Starting from 2017 the string group at TIFR also hopes to institute a new award - Infosys Fellowships - for
string theory post docs at TIFR. This fellowship is planned to include a salary enhancement plus a substantial travel budget, and can be awarded to up to 2 TIFR string theory post doctoral fellows every year. Exceptional post doctoral applicants can be selected for an Infosys fellowship for 2017-2018 at the time of review of applications.
Applicants are encouraged to send us their application by Nov 15 2016, and definitely by Nov 30 2016.
Applications and application material that arrives after this date will also be considered for unfilled positions.
Potential applicants who have any questions are encouraged to write to Shiraz Minwalla at the email address listed above or any of the other string faculty members.
More Information:http://theory.tifr.res.in/OutsideHelp/vfellow.html