The LIGO Laboratory has a job posting for a Project Mechanical Designer/Drafter, LIGO Caltech, reporting to Arnaud Pele.
Anticipated start date: As soon as possible
Full-time position
Regular-staff position
Feel free to contact the LIGO Laboratory Staff Relations and Administrative Manager, Lorna Campbell, for more information, OR feel free to contact the Hiring Manager Arnaud Pele, for more information about this position.
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The Quantum and Spacetime Research Institute (QuaSR), Kyushu University, is seeking applications for an Academic Researcher position in the field of experimental gravitational wave physics.
The successful candidate will conduct research in experimental gravitational wave physics in collaboration with Dr. Satoshi Tanioka (scheduled to join QuaSR, Kyushu University). The research will focus on fundamental technologies for quantum measurements in space, including laser interferometers, optical cavities, and related systems.
Starting date:
As early as possible on or after October 1, 2026
Salary and Benefits:
Term of Employment:
The appointment will begin on the start date and continue until March 31, 2029.The contract is renewable annually based on performance and other considerations.The total period of employment at Kyushu University shall not exceed ten (10) years.
Application Deadline: June 30, 2026
Application Materials:
Applicants should submit the following documents as a single PDF file by email with the subject line “Application for Academic Researcher”:
Submission Email:
yamamoto.kazuhiro.963(at)m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Applicants will receive a confirmation email upon receipt. If you do not receive confirmation within 24 hours, please contact us.
Contact Information:
Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Email: yamamoto.kazuhiro.963(at)m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
For our location in Hamburg we are seeking: DESY-Fellowships in Experimental Particle Physics
Remuneration Group 13 | Limited: 2+1 years | Starting date: between 01.07.2026 and 01.01.2027 | ID: FHFE001/2026 | Deadline: 31.03.2026 | Full-time/Part-time
DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.
We participate in leading roles in particle physics projects on our campus and at international laboratories such as CERN or KEK. We develop technologies for detectors and accelerators, and work on scientific computing. We operate important infrastructures such as a WLCG Tier-2 computing centre or the DESY test beam facility.
Interested applicants for a fellowship in experimental physics are requested to submit their application in English (letter of motivation, research interest, CV, list of publications, copies of university degrees, three letters of reference) via our application portal. The statement about the scientific interest has to include your specific motivation for one of the research projects mentioned below.
The decision on the awarding of a fellowship for the 1/2026 selection round will presumably be made by 31 May 2026. The fellowship at DESY in Hamburg is to be started during the second half of 2026.
About your role:
You are invited to take an active role in one of the following research projects in Hamburg:
About you:
Good reasons to join:
Look forward to a unique working environment on our international research campus. Respectful cooperation and the well-being of our DESY employees are particularly important to us. Gender equality is an important aspect for us. To support work life balance we offer flexible working hours and variable part-time. You will benefit from our family-friendly and collegial atmosphere, our established health management and occupational pension provision. As a public funded employer, we offer you a secure workplace and facilitate your individual career with our comprehensive training and development opportunities. Remuneration is according to the regulations of the TV-AVH. DESY offers its employees a financial supplement for a German job ticket (Deutschland-Ticket) at both locations.
Further informations about the DESY-Fellowship can be found here: https://www.desy.de/FellowFH
Please arrange for three letters of reference to be uploaded via our online toolby 31 March 2026.
We look forward to receiving your application via our application portal:
DESY promotes equal opportunities and diversity. The professional development of women is very important to us and therefore we strongly encourage women to apply for the vacant position. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are equally qualified (sbv.desy.de).
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LIGO Laboratory (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) seeks a highly motivated and skilled LIGO Science Education Center Program Leader to join its education and public outreach team.
This position is located in Livingston, LA and is an in-person role.
LIGO Laboratory is a National Science Foundation major facility dedicated to observing the newly discovered gravitational-wave universe. Jointly operated by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the LIGO Laboratory operates world-leading observatories near Richland, WA and Baton Rouge, LA as well as R&D centers on the Caltech and MIT campuses. The LIGO Laboratory’s mission spans a broad and vibrant array of activities related to gravitational-wave physics and astronomy, including detector operations, R&D toward detector improvements, gravitational-wave astrophysics, observatory operations, and education and public outreach.
The LIGO Science Education Center (LIGO SEC) is collocated with the LIGO observatory in Livingston, Louisiana. We use an exhibit hall, classroom, and other facilities to provide visiting students, teachers, and members of the public a hybrid program that includes exhibit-based free exploration and science-standards-based facilitated sessions, together with interactions with the staff at an active leading-edge observatory.
We use a multi-pronged approach to serve regional K–12 education, consisting of formal teacher professional development in the physical sciences, primarily during the summer; informal field trips for students of those teachers; and undergraduate docents trained in outreach methods who informally interact with the students and teachers during the academic year.
Our informal-science educators communicate the science of gravitational waves utilizing standard K-12 physical science concepts, as part of our mission to inspire a sense of wonder, to engage curiosity and to encourage the future STEM workforce. In order to accomplish our objectives, we partner with a variety of institutions including San Francisco’s Exploratorium and Southern University.
For more information, please visit the Laboratory website at www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA
Essential Job Duties
Reporting to the observatory head, the LIGO Science Education Center program leader actively leads LIGO Livingston’s education and public outreach team to fulfill the center’s mission to inspire a sense of wonder, engage curiosity and encourage the future Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) workforce.
Duties of this position:
Basic Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Candidates with one or more of the following preferred qualifications are particularly encouraged to apply:
Required Documents
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The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy/The Institute of Theoretical Physics seeks to fill the position of a Research assistant in the field of gravitational-wave and numerical relativity (theory)
commencing on 01. October 2026
We offer a full-time position (40 hours per week).
As our new ‘research assistant you will investigates questions relating to gravitational waves from compact binaries, relativistic and multimessenger astrophysics, and numerical methods for Einstein equations and relativistic fluids.
Your responsibilities:
Your profile:
We offer:
The position is a fixed-term position initially limited for two years; an extension is possible up to five years.
Candidates with severe disabilities will be given preference in the case of equal qualifications and suitability.
Are you eager to work for us? Then apply by June 1, 2026 using our online form.
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The research engineer will participate in the design, prototyping, development, and deployment of software and digital infrastructures for large-scale galaxy catalogues and community-driven data platforms, in the context of gravitational-wave cosmology. The position is part of the OSCARS-funded project UpGLADE: community-driven open-data infrastructure for gravitational-wave cosmology, whose goal is to deliver the largest open-access all-sky galaxy catalogue. Application deadline: March 3rd 2026.
Placed under the scientific responsibility of Gergely Dálya, Principal Investigator (PI) of the project (moving to the Eötvös University of Budapest), and Nicola Tamanini, co-PI at the L2IT, the recruited person will work in close collaboration with astrophysicists and cosmologists involved in gravitational-wave and multi-messenger astronomy, while focusing primarily on software engineering, data infrastructure, and platform development rather than on scientific analysis itself. The research engineer will interact regularly with international partners and infrastructure providers involved in the OSCARS, EOSC, and ESCAPE ecosystems.
The following documents must be submitted to the CNRS Job Portal:
Candidates selected for an interview will be asked to provide at least 2 letters of recommendation by email.
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The Laboratoire des 2 Infinis – Toulouse (L2IT) is a young and dynamic laboratory created in 2020 to conduct fundamental research with new numerical and theoretical approaches for data analysis. The laboratory’s research is concentrated on particle physics, gravitational waves, and the equation of state of nuclear matter, and relies on a complementary development of analysis methodologies and data science led by the “Calculation, Algorithms, and Data” (CAD) team. The “Gravitational Waves” (GW) team of L2IT conducts research on theoretical and experimental aspects of gravitational wave science, with a particular focus on the exploitation of new approaches linking theory to observations through data analysis and numerical simulations. The “GW” team is part of the LISA consortium, the Virgo collaboration, and the Einstein Telescope Consortium.
The core objective of the project is to transform the UpGLADE galaxy catalogue into a stable, publicly available, and FAIR-compliant infrastructure, and to upgrade the existing GLADEnet web tool into a participatory platform allowing astronomers to contribute new observations and improvements to galaxy data. These developments support key scientific goals in gravitational-wave cosmology, including precise measurements of the Hubble constant using standard sirens, and benefit a broad community ranging from large international collaborations to individual researchers and citizen scientists.
The research engineer will collaborate closely with astrophysicists, cosmologists, and infrastructure partners, but will not be expected to carry out independent scientific research or cosmological inference. The emphasis of the position is on software quality, scalability, interoperability, and long-term sustainability of the developed tools and services. The work will involve interaction with computing centres and infrastructure providers hosting the services, as well as coordination with international partners contributing to the catalogue and platform, located in Budapest, Glasgow, Perugia, and Warwick.
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To increase the scientific return from its space science missions, ESA welcomes applications from scientists interested in pursuing research based on publicly available data in the ESA Space Science Archives. The Archives host data from all current and past ESA space science missions in astronomy, planetary science, and heliophysics.
The ESA Archival Research Visitor Programme is open to scientists at all career levels who are affiliated with institutes in ESA Member States and Cooperating States (note that all visits must comply with the ESA Security Directives, which may necessitate additional checks). Early-career scientists are particularly encouraged to apply, including PhD students (see below). We encourage applications from women and minorities. The peer-review evaluation process is anonymised to ensure equal opportunities for all applicants.
Residence lasts typically between one and three months, also distributed over multiple visits, depending on the complexity of the research project. The research projects can be carried out at ESAC (Madrid, Spain) and at ESTEC (Noordwijk, Netherlands). To offset the expenses incurred by visitors, ESA covers travel costs from and to the home institution and provides support for lodging expenses and meals.
During their stay, visiting scientists have the opportunity to interact with archive and mission specialists for questions on the retrieval, calibration, and analysis of archival data. In principle, all areas of space research covered by ESA science missions can be supported (the data must be publicly available in the archives). To ensure that technical expertise in the specific area of interest is available at ESAC or ESTEC, applicants should consult the table of expertise and contact the relevant scientists in their field of interest (this is very important). In case of doubts, write to the programme coordinators for assistance at arvp@cosmos.esa.int.
The next deadline for applications is Wednesday 30 April 2026, 23:59 UTC
Call for applications
Applications can be submitted at any time by sending email to arvp@cosmos.esa.int. The email should contain a single PDF document of at most three pages detailing:
Please keep it short (max 2 pages for the text of the proposal, max 1 page for figures, references, and contact information) and follow the simple template provided here. Note that this is just a template, you can use the font type and size that you prefer (not smaller than 10), but please do not exceed two pages for the text and one page for figures, references, and contact information. You must indicate in which year you obtained (or will obtain) your PhD.
To prevent unconscious biases, your name, email address, and other contact information (on the third page) will not be visible to reviewers. To help in the process, you must write your application in an “anonymous” way, i.e. do not identify yourself in the text. For instance, do not mention the name of your institute or collaborators in the scientific description of the project (page 1 and 2) and when you are referring to one of your papers, do not write “I have shown that … (Author Name, 2023, Journal, 954, 125)”, but rather write “It has been shown that … (Author Name, 2023, Journal, 954, 125)”. If you identify yourself, the application will not be considered.
We encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about the data that could support your research project. You will find the names of our experts in the various science areas in the table of expertise below. Or write to the programme coordinators for assistance at arvp@cosmos.esa.int.
Students
We welcome proposals by graduate students. The proposals can be submitted by the students themselves or in collaboration with their supervisors. If you are a student and would like to visit ESA to learn more about doing science with archival data, make sure that you coordinate and agree your research project with your supervisor. Mention this in the application, but omit the name of the supervisor, otherwise the application is not anonymous.
Deadlines
Applications can be submitted at any time and are reviewed twice a year, with deadlines usually on 30 April and 31 October. The results of the review will be communicated to applicants within about two months of the deadlines. Applicants are encouraged to contact the ESA scientists or the programme coordinators well ahead of the deadlines in order to discuss their research plans.
Applications received by 30 April 2026 (23:59 UTC) will be considered for visits in autumn and winter 2026/2027.
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The Laboratory of Theoretical Physics in Toulouse has an opening for a two-year postdoctoral position in the field of one-dimensional quantum many-body systems.
The starting date is flexible (latest January 2027). To apply, please send your curriculum vitae, a brief research statement, and arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to Aleksandra Petković (petkovic(at)irsamc.ups-tlse.fr). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
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The Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science is looking for a full-time (100%) postdoctoral scholarship holder in the field of Physics or a related field.
The Particle Physics research group carries out research in particle physics (CMS experiment at CERN LHC) and gravitational waves. Members of the group are involved with Virgo instrumentation, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data analysis, and Instrumentation Science with the Einstein Telescope. The University of Antwerp is a founding partner of the ETPathfinder project, and members of the group take part in the instrumentation developments related to this facility in Maastricht. The University of Antwerp is also one of the initial founding research units of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration.
Are you interested in technology and techniques which allow us to observe black holes colliding a million light years out in the cosmos? We are looking for a postdoc to work on the cross section of research, education and collaboration with industry and join the ETpathfinder Smart Skills Lab project. Application deadline is 26 February 2026.
ETpathfinder is a field laboratory for research, development and validation of new technologies for the Einstein Telescope. Based on a full interferometer configuration ETpathfinder aims to perform length measurements at the level of a thousandths of a proton diameter, which requires going beyond the state of art in a variety of fields including optics, sensors, lasers, materials, cryogenic cooling, vibration damping, vacuum and controls.
The ETpathfinder Smart Skills lab is a new initiative with the aim of providing training to companies and industry partners in ETpathfinder related technologies and skills. These skills trainings will be offered in particular to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Flanders and the south of the Netherlands (Limburg and Noord Brabant). The ETpathfinder Smart Skills lab is an initiative of 17 academic and educational partners from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
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This postdoctoral position will focus on testing dark energy and modified gravity models with cosmological observations. Two aspects of this are of interest for this position, candidates are welcome via either route:
i) Linking simulations of large-scale structure (LSS) in modified gravity theories to observables relevant to stage IV surveys. Relevant skills include: experience with running and handling outputs from numerical simulations of LSS. Experience constructing emulators. Experience with forecasting and/or data analysis of galaxy clustering and weak lensing observables. Experience with HOD modelling. Other experience in constraining gravity with LSS will be considered.
ii) Testing gravity through the association of gravitational waves (GWs) and galaxies, e.g. dark sirens, GW-galaxy cross-correlation. Relevant skills include: experience with dark sirens software pipelines (e.g. gwcosmo, IcaroGW, CHIMERA…). Experience with GW x LSS cross-correlation computations. Experience with forecasting for 3G GW detectors. Other experience in GW cosmology will be considered.
Application deadline: 02/01/2026
The successful candidate will join the research team of Prof. Tessa Baker, and contribute to the ERC-funded SHADE project. Queries on the post can be directed to tessa.baker@port.ac.uk.
The working pattern for this post is full-time. Whilst there is a need to be in Portsmouth a few days a week, hybrid working is available for this role.
The interviews are currently anticipated to be held on 19 January 2025.
This appointment is a fixed-term contract for 12 months.
Applications (application form, CV, publication list and research proposal for the fellowship) should be submitted by the closing date. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent by email to icg-recruitment(at)port.ac.uk, to arrive by the same date.
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