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Call for postdoctoral positions at University of Paris-Saclay

The Graduate School of Physics at Université Paris-Saclay, France, is launching a new postdoctoral fellowship program: UPSaclay-STAR-φ, supported by the EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND.

The program will recruit up to 41 international postdoctoral researchers over two calls, for 24-month projects in one of the 40 laboratories of the Graduate School, working on various fields from fundamental to applied physics. This includes the following two Theoretical Physics institutes :

  • Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), Saclay
  • Theory Pole of IJCLab, Orsay

The application deadline for the first call is July 31st, 2025 and the expected start of the fellowships early 2026 (flexible).

Applicants will have to propose their own research project, aligned with the School’s wide-ranging fields, from fundamental to applied physics. They are free to choose the institute at which they would like to carry out their research.

To be eligible, applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity in France for more than 12 months during the 3 years preceding the deadline for applications.

For further information and application instructions, please visit:
http://www.cofund-physics.universite-paris-saclay.fr/