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Postdoc position at the Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

The Director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CTP PAS) invites applications for a post-doctoral position at CTP PAS within the GRAVITES project, implemented as part of the Horizon Europe programme (project no 101071779, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101071779), financed by the European Research Council (ERC) of the European Union. This part of the project is led by Prof. Piotr Chruściel. Application Deadline June 30th 2025 - 23:59 (CEST).

Required qualifications and skills:
Expertise, interest, and ideally some hands-on knowledge in the areas of classical theory of gravitation and of quantum photonics.

Specific Requirements
Responsibilities:
The successful Candidate will devote a major part of his research time to theoretical aspects of experiments related to quantum photonic states in optical fibres interacting with the gravitational field.

Languages: ENGLISH
Level: Excellent
Research Field: Physics » Other

Benefits

The position is offered for an initial period of 2 years with the possibility of extension until the end of the project, i.e. March 2029. The starting date of the appointment is August 1, 2025, possibly later if more convenient after mutual agreement. The salary range is around 9500 PLN gross, depending on the Candidate’s qualifications.

Eligibility criteria
The application should include:

  1. Scientific CV including publication list, participation in research projects and conferences (with the General Data Protection Regulation clause “I consent to the processing of my personal data necessary for the recruitment process in accordance with the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016, on the
    Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk
    Aleja Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa
    Tel.: +48 573 823 493
    E-mail: cft(at)cft.edu.pl, NIP: 525-000-92-81, REGON: 000844815 protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (GDPR)”);
  2. Signed General Data Protection Regulation clause above;
  3. Copies of academic titles and diplomas;
  4. Applicants should arrange to have two or more reference letters sent directly to the email
    address given below.

Selection process
The application documents should be sent electronically to rekrutacja(at)cft.edu.pl. In the
subject of the email please indicate the reference number: PCh/10/2025. Submissions before June 30, 2025 will be given full consideration. The candidate will be selected by the end of July 2025.

Additional comments
The Center for Theoretical Physics PAS adheres to the Internal Reporting Regulations, which outline the procedure for reporting legal violations and subsequent actions. The full text of the regulations is available on the Institute’s website.

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Teaching Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State

The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State invites applications for a full-time Teaching Professor position (non-tenure track) to begin in Fall 2025. Salary and benefits will be competitive and commensurate with the successful candidate’s qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities will include teaching up to 3 courses per semester and advising undergraduate majors. The courses include both classroom and online formats. The Department also plans to develop a Planetary Sciences Option for the undergraduate Astrophysics major. It is our hope to grow this into a Planetary Sciences major in concert with the Geosciences department and others. The successful candidate will have experience with similar duties and be expected to lead these efforts. Course relief and supplementary salary can be provided given additional service to the department including departmental committee work, New Student Orientation, contributions to outreach, and development of course materials, for example.

A Ph.D. in Astronomy or Physics is preferred, a PhD in a related field with strong astronomy teaching experience will be considered. Experience teaching pre-service or in-service teachers and/or experience in astronomy education research is also preferred. Planetarium presentations and volunteer training experience will be considered.

Applications must be submitted electronically and include a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching experience and interests as well as research interests, and a list of publications. In addition, please request three reference letters be sent to astro-jobs(at)psu.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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Expression of Interest for Fellowships in Theoretical Physics at QMUL

The Centre for Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary University of London is looking to support applications for several prestigious fellowships including: STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (ERF), Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF), Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCPF), ERC Starting grant (ERC). Candidates typically have 2-10 years of experience and have demonstrated leadership and excellence in their field. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research expertise is aligned with the Centre's research areas. Deadline for expressions of interest is July 8th 2025.

For more information, please visit: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/spcs/ctp/research/. Our group embraces diversity and encourages applications from female and minority ethnic candidates and other under-represented groups in physics. The group also strives to accommodate flexible working arrangements and special career paths.

Please find here full details and how to apply.

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W3 professorship in relativistic astrophysics in Jena, Germany

The Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) invites applications for a W3 (or W2 with tenure track to W3) professorship for Theoretical Physics - Relativistic Astrophysics starting in the summer semester 2026.

The successful candidate is expected to have demonstrated broad expertise in scientific research and high competence in teaching in this subject area. We search for excellence in gravitational physics and relativity theory, with research interests in general relativistic astrophysics, gravitational waves and their sources, as well as mathematical and theoretical foundations of classical and modified gravity. With regard to technical expertise, a strong background in mathematical and/or numerical relativity is desired.

A close collaboration with existing groups at the department is expected, especially with other theoretical research groups in the areas of theoretical physics, quantum field theory, astronomy and/or computational physics. These activities should be strengthened and expanded, in particular with respect to coordinated funding programs, while additional, new initiatives are welcome. Experience in grant acquisition and leadership in science management are required.

Applications including cover letter, CV, research and teaching concepts, list of publications and acquired third-party funding should be submitted electronically to the University job portal (https://berufungsportal.uni-jena.de/) no later than July, 1st 2025.

Please find this link for the full text of the announcement.

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Quantum Gravity 2025, July 21-25, Penn State University

This conference, held at Penn State University located in State College Pennsylvania from July 21 until July 25 2025, aims to bring together researchers from all approaches to quantum gravity working on the full range from general conceptual aspects to potential phenomenological implications, as well as adjacent fields such as cosmology, quantum field theory and quantum information. The meeting will provide a platform for discussions of the main open questions currently driving the research field in an open and constructive format. In the long term, the goal is to work towards combining the lessons learned within various complementary approaches followed by the general field.

Conference Website

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EREP 2025, Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting, September 1-5, 2025, Alicante

The Spanish-Portuguese Relativity Meetings (EREPs) are a long-standing scientific tradition that began in 1977. Since then, they have served as a key forum for the Portuguese and Spanish communities working in General Relativity and Gravitation, promoting collaboration and the exchange of ideas across a broad range of topics. Organized annually by different research groups from both countries, EREPs have become the most prominent conference on gravitation and relativity in the Iberian Peninsula.

The 2025 edition (EREP 2025) will take place in Alicante, Spain, from September 1st to 5th, 2025. We warmly invite you to join us for a week of stimulating scientific discussions in a vibrant and sunny Mediterranean setting. As in previous editions, EREP 2025 will bring together researchers from across the Iberian Peninsula and beyond, offering a dynamic program in a friendly and collaborative atmosphere.

Meeting Website

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Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of Foundational AI at Vanderbilt University, August 4-5, 2025

Two immersive days exploring how large foundation models, transformers, diffusion models, self-supervised learners can accelerate astronomical discovery. Experts from gravitational-wave astronomy, multimessenger astronomy, and AI will share insights through talks and panel discussions.

Motivation
Multimessenger astronomy is entering a transformative era. As next-generation observatories deliver an unprecedented volume and diversity of data—across gravitational waves, electromagnetic signals, and neutrinos—the complexity of extracting meaningful insights increasingly exceeds the capacity of traditional analysis pipelines. At the same time, foundational AI models—large pre-trained networks such as transformers and diffusion models—are reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery, from natural language processing to molecular design. This two-day workshop brings these revolutions together. We will convene researchers from gravitational-wave physics, broader observational astronomy, and artificial intelligence to explore how cutting-edge machine learning can accelerate real-time detection, multimodal data integration, source classification, and astrophysical inference.

Through keynote talks and interactive panel discussions, participants will:

Survey the current frontier of AI-driven multimessenger astronomy—what tools are proving effective, and where the next breakthroughs may arise.
Build collaborative bridges across observatories, academic institutions, and industry research groups to foster robust, open-source development.
Chart a roadmap toward interpretable, scalable AI systems that can adapt to rapidly evolving data streams and scientific goals.

Join us in Nashville, August 4–5, 2025, to shape the future of multimessenger astronomy in the era of foundational AI—and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of discovery.

Workshop Website

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SN2025gw: First IGWN Symposium on Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Wave Theory and Detection, Warsaw, July 21-25, 2025

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration invites the core-collapse supernova (CCSN) astronomy and astrophysics community for a 5-day Symposium on July 21-25, 2025, at the University of Warsaw, Poland. CCSNe are among the most violent explosions known to occur in the Universe, and the next Galactic or near extra-Galactic exploding massive star will be one of the most interesting, and most important, astronomical events of the century. This Symposium aims to bring CCSN experts together to address how to maximize the scientific potential of the first detection of core collapse supernova gravitational waves (GWs). The Symposium hopes to bring together GW astronomers and CCSN modelers, as well as neutrino and nuclear theorists, neutrino astronomers, and astronomers across the electromagnetic spectrum.

The sensitivity of GW detectors and progress on CCSN modeling are unprecedented, and we expect them to further advance in the coming years. A joint effort across communities has great potential to fully utilize these advances for CCSN GW discovery. Each day, we will host (before lunch) a set of lectures on one of the key topics listed below, to establish a common understanding and a common language. Moreover, each day (after lunch) will also include invited and contributed talks, as well as discussion. The focus topics of the Symposium are:

Day 1: CCSN Theory
Day 2: CCSN Gravitational Wave Detection and Parameter Estimation
Day 3: CCSN Neutrino Detection
Day 4: CCSNe across the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Day 5: CCSNe over the Next Ten Years

The proceedings of the Symposium will be published in a special issue of Classical and Quantum Gravity. We hope the proceedings will serve as a reference for students, postdocs, and faculty in, or entering, the field, serve to capture the current state of core collapse supernova gravitational wave astronomy and astrophysics, outline lessons learned, and provide recommendations for future development.

Everyone who wishes to advance the field of CCSN GW science is welcome!

Conference web page with additional information

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APPEC Tech Forum Vacuum & Cryogenics – Industry meets Academia, November 24-26, 2025, Maastricht

European physicists in astro-particle physics as well as in neighboring fields are planning the next generation of experiments to be built within the next decade. The success of the projects in direct dark matter detection, low energy neutrino physics, neutrino properties, gravitational wave detection as well as related accelerator-based experiments in particle and nuclear physics highly depends on challenging technologies in the domain of vacuum and cryogenics. The first event of this series, focusing on vacuum and cryogenics,  took place in Darmstadt/Germany in 2012. A brochure was published after the meeting, providing an overview of participating  experiments and companies.

For a thorough planning of all stakeholders it is important to carefully elaborate the timing of the projects and their needs as well as the market availability of key products. The APPEC Technology Forum is organized jointly with the international union of vacuum societies IUVSTA, national vacuum societies from the Netherlands and Germany, Maastricht University, NIKHEF and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to identify synergies between projects from neighboring fields. It shall provide a discussion forum for companies, project scientist and funding agencies to define future ways of boosting cooperation to the benefit of all stakeholders.

Full registration is expected to be available im May 2025. However, you can already register your e-mail address to help us with planning and to receive updated information, as it becomes available. You can also indicate, if you are interested in presenting a poster for your experiment, or if you would like to present products and information about your company.

At the end of the meeting we offer a visit to ET-Pathfinder, a R&D facility for the development and testing of technologies for the next generation gravitational wave observatory, the Einstein Telescope.

Meeting Website

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Launch of UPSaclay-STAR-phi Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme University Paris-Saclay

The Graduate School of Physics at Université Paris-Saclay (France) is launching a new postdoctoral fellowship programme: UPSaclay-STAR-phi, supported by the EU Marie Curie COFUND programme. Application deadline: July 31st, 2025.

The programme will recruit up to 41 international postdoctoral researchers over two calls, for 24-month research projects in one of the 40 laboratories of the Graduate School, at the SOLEIL synchrotron, or at the French National Metrology Lab (LNE). This includes 4 astrophysics laboratories: the Department of Astrophysics (DAp) of CEA Paris-Saclay, the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS), the Laboratoire Atmosphères et Observations Spatiales (LATMOS) and the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP).

  • First call opens: May 1st, 2025.
  • Application deadline: July 31st, 2025.
  • Expected start of fellowships: early 2026 (flexible).

Applicants will propose their own research project aligned with the School’s wide-ranging fields, from fundamental to applied physics.

Notice that the postdoctoral candidate must not have been based in France for more than 12 months, during the past 3 years.

Website of the programme: http://www.cofund-physics.universite-paris-saclay.fr/
Contact: Frédéric Galliano frederic.galliano(at)cea.fr

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https://inspirehep.net/jobs/2916789