Deadline: 2015-12-10
Region: Europe
Job description:
We invite applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position in high energy theory, starting in the autumn of 2016. The position will be affiliated jointly between the Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) at the University of Helsinki and the University of Sussex. The chosen candidate will be based in Helsinki, and the position comes with ample travel money, enabling active collaboration with both institutes.
At HIP the position will be within the research project Searching for Phase Transitions in the Early Universe, which concentrates on the theory and phenomenology of phase transitions at the electroweak scale and beyond, including the gravitational waves from the phase transition itself, and other signals from other relics of phase transitions such as topological defects. The project is led by Mark Hindmarsh and Kari Rummukainen, and works in close collaboration with the respective groups of Katri Huitu, Oleg Lebedev, Kimmo Tuominen, and Aleksi Vuorinen.
Visits to Sussex will be hosted by the Theoretical Particle Physics research group, which in collaboration with the Astronomy Centre has a thriving research environment for early universe cosmology.
Highly motivated junior researchers, who will have obtained their PhD degrees by the autumn of 2016 and whose research interests include one or several of the topics listed above, are encouraged to apply. The applicants should prepare a short research statement, a curriculum vitae and a list of publications, and assemble them all in one single pdf file uploaded via this this link. The applicants should also arrange for at least two letters of recommendation to be sent on their behalf through the same link. All material should arrive before December 10 2015, though later applications will be considered as well until the positions are filled.
More Information:http://hep.physics.helsinki.fi/postdocs/