30.07.2025 Scientific Project Coordinator (f/m/d) at AEI Potsdam The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam is offering an exciting opportunity for a Scientific Project Coordinator to play an integral role in two ERC-funded international research projects, GWSky (Making Sense of the Unexpected in the Gravitational-Wave Sky) and MaScAmp (Mathematics of Scattering Amplitudes). The partner organizations of GWSky are the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, the SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) in Trieste, and the University of California, in Los Angeles. The partner organizations of MaScAmp are Trinity College Dublin, the University of Oxford and the University of Uppsala. Application deadline 31 August 2025.…

30.07.2025 Postdoc Position in Multi-messenger Astronomy and Data Science at Johns Hopkins University The William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) invites applications for one postdoctoral fellow position to pursue research in time-domain multi-messenger astrophysics with emphasis on data science and AI. The postdoctoral fellow will lead a project focused on developing optimized strategies for observing, processing, and archiving the datasets from current and future large astronomical facilities, with emphasis on radio interferometric arrays, in the pursuit of multi-messenger transients. Key to this project will be the application of AI techniques to streamline the translation of high-level science objectives into concrete observational and…

29.07.2025 PhD Position in Gravitational Waves at Nikhef The PhD position will focus on the development and application of the modelling framework Finesse (https://finesse.ifosim.org/). Finesse is an open source code for modelling laser interferometers for precision experiments and we deliver the software to the large scientific projects Virgo, LIGO and the Einstein Telescope (ET). To keep up with the more advanced instrumentation in ET we are extending and enhancing Finesse. You will make significant contribution to the Python code and you will work as a member of the international design team that defines the shape and performance of the most advanced observatory for gravitational waves. Application deadline: September 15th, 2025.…

29.07.2025 Postdoc position in Gravitational Waves at Nikhef The Postdoctoral position will focused on the development and optimization of phase cameras for the Virgo detector. This includes design of optical sensing schemes, modeling phase cameras and wavefront sensing in Finesse, analysis and interpretation of phase camera data, making comparison between simulations results and experimental data from Virgo, visiting the Virgo site for maintenance and installation of phase cameras, collaboration with Virgo commissioning and modeling teams, developing table-top experiments to test phase camera prototypes, collaboration with industries in the development of models and inference algorithms. Application deadline: September 15th, 2025. Read more

29.07.2025 Maria de Maeztu Postdoctoral position in Gravitational Waves Astronomy at the ICCUB The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a 3-year Postdoctoral position in gravitational wave astronomy, as part of its current call for two postdoctoral positions and one ICCUB Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered under the framework of its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu. The successful candidate will lead projects spanning both theoretical and data analysis aspects of gravitational wave science. Research topics may include, but not be limited to parameter estimation, gravitational lensing, numerical relativity simulations, detector characterization, mock data generation, neutron star asteroseismology, magnetohydrodynamic modeling of neutron stars and multimessenger…

29.07.2025 Maria de Maeztu-ICCUB Postdoctoral positions and Fellowship The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for two postdoctoral positions and one ICCUB Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered under the framework of its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu. All positions are funded for up to 3 years. The three scientific profiles are as follows: Position in Beyond the standard models of cosmology and particle physicsPosition in Gravitational wave astronomyPosition in Quantum Resources for Science and TechnologyApplication deadline: November 30th, 2025 Read more

22.07.2025 Junior Leader postdoctoral Fellowships, incoming and retaining at ICCUB “La Caixa” Foundation is launching a postdoctoral fellowships program in which candidates will be able to conduct a research project at accredited centres with the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu excellence award, Institutos de Investigación Sanitaria Carlos IIII and units evaluated as excellent by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia of Portugal. Junior Leader Fellowships Programme Description: The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is aimed at hiring excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Application deadline: September 25th, 2025. Read…

03.07.2025 Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships at FZU – Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Prague We are offering a postdoctoral fellowship programme that allows researchers to conduct their own bottom-up research project over two years in Czechia, within the facilities of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences or ELI Beamlines, depending on their chosen supervisor, under the Physics for Future (P4F) Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND. The call is expected to be open from August until 10 October 2025. Read more

03.07.2025 Full Professor of Space-Based Astrophysics at University of Vienna Space-based observatories have opened up large, new areas of astrophysical research. By far the largest part of the electromagnetic spectrum is accessible only from space and has tremendously enriched astronomy with the discovery of new astronomical objects and previously inaccessible phenomenology. The University of Vienna has a long and successful tradition in contributing to space mission instrumentation and conducting space-based astrophysics. We seek a full professor with profound experience in astronomical space missions to lead internationally visible payload contributions and to carry out a related attractive scientific research program. Application deadline: September 17th, 2025. Read more

30.06.2025 Institut Courtois Postdoctoral Fellowship in Montreal The Institut Courtois, inaugurated in 2022, is part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal and is funded by a generous donation from the Fondation Courtois. In its ambition to promote an environment of creativity and discovery that will lead to fundamental breakthroughs in materials sciences, the Institut Courtois seeks talented postdoctoral research Fellows who will impart leadership to accelerate materials research in one or more of its five main thrusts: Quantum materials, Quantum photonics, Materials for energy and the Environment, Development of molecular materials, AI for material science and material science for AI.Submission deadline : September 23rd,…