27.08.2026 LIGO Laboratory Job Opening: Senior Scientist, at LIGO Caltech LIGO Laboratory (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) seeks a highly motivated and skilled Senior Scientist to join its team with experience in research, design and problem solving in a collaborative environment. This position is an in-person role located in Pasadena, California.The successful candidate will report to the most senior engineers at LIGO Lab. Given how important core optics and optical coatings are for LIGO today and LIGO tomorrow this is an important position and offers the individual an important role within LIGO Lab. This is an exciting opportunity to work with world-leading scientists and engineers on cutting-edge science. This selected…

27.08.2026 PhD Researcher in Compact High-Precision Sensors for Science and Industry at nikhef This vacancy is for a four-year PhD position focusing on the development of the optical readout of the CHiPS sensor. Your research will centre on a homodyne quadrature interferometric readout, with the aim of combining high sensitivity with the robustness and stability required for continuous operation. You will investigate and develop the interferometric sensing architecture through modelling, experimental development and characterisation. The readout will be designed to operate in both open-loop mode, using fringe counting, and closed-loop mode. Developing the closed-loop system will involve close collaboration with the control-design PhD researcher at TU Delft, while achieving a…

27.08.2026 Research Position (Postdoc) in the field Gravitational Wave Detector Instrumentation at Leibniz Universität Hannover The Institute for Gravitational Physics invites applications for the following position starting at the earliest possible date: Research Position (Postdoc) in the field Gravitational Wave Detector Instrumentation (salary scale 13 TV-L, 100 %). The fixed-term position is limited to 3 years. This position is part of the project “Developing a modular suspension platform interferometer for the Einstein Telescope” which aims to investigate and design an ultra-sensitive interferometric sensor for sensing and controlling the motion between seismically isolated platforms for the next generation Einstein Telescope gravitational wave detector. The research will be carried out at the…

21.07.2026 Postdoctoral position in deep-learning-based Newtonian-noise subtraction at ULiège The STAR Institute at the University of Liège, Belgium invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position to work with the OGrav group, starting on November 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The postdoctoral researcher will focus on deep-learning-based Newtonian Noise subtraction for the Einstein Telescope. The work will include the development, implementation, and in-situ tests of the method on the E-TEST prototype developed in Liège by Prof. Christophe Collette. The successful candidate will also collaborate with members of the Applied Geophysics (APGEO) group led by Prof. Frédéric Nguyen, and the Belgian gravitational-wave community (GraviBel/BelGrav). Read more

21.07.2026 Technologietransfer-Manager:in (m/w/d) in Aachen Ab 1. August 2026 suchen wir zur Verstärkung unseres Teams für den Arbeitsort Aachen eine/n Technologietransfer-Manager:in (m/w/d) im Team „EuRegionaler Technologietransfer“ (40 Wochenstunden). Die Stelle ist zunächst auf 12 Monate befristet. Vorbehaltlich der weiteren Fördermittelbewilligung wird eine Verlängerung angestrebt.Unser Bereich EuRegionaler Technologietransfer unterstützt Unternehmen, insbesondere KMUs und Start-ups, in ihrer Zusammenarbeit untereinander (B2B) und mit der Hochschul- und Forschungslandschaft (B2S) – sowohl in der Region Aachen als auch grenzüberschreitend in der Euregio Maas-Rhein. Dabei sind wir maßgeblich an den Vorbereitungen rund um das neue, bahnbrechende Einstein-Teleskop (ET) aktiv, um dessen Standort sich die Drei-Länder-Region aussichtsreich bewirbt: Im Auftrag der RWTH Aachen University übernehmen wir insbesondere…

14.07.2026 Instrument/Experiment Postdoctoral position at the LIGO Laboratory LIGO Laboratory anticipates having one or possibly more experiment/instrumentation postdoctoral research positions at one or more of the LIGO sites – Caltech, MIT and at the two LIGO Observatories in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA – as positions become available. Hires will be made based on the availability of funding. Successful applicants will interact with faculty members Rana Adhikari and Lee McCuller (Caltech) and Matt Evans and Nergis Mavalvala (MIT) as well as the Lab’s extensive network of experienced researchers and personnel. Successful applicants will be involved in the operation of the world’s most sensitive interferometers, and/or the R&D program for future…

01.07.2026 LIGO Laboratory Job Opening: Electronics Engineer, LIGO Caltech The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory seeks a highly motivated and skilled Electronics Engineer to join its team. LIGO Laboratory is a National Science Foundation major facility dedicated to observing gravitational-waves. 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…

12.05.2026 The RING project in Germany: 1 Postdoc and 14 PhD positions in Physics, Geophysics, Geodesy we would like to draw your attention to the 4-year RING project recently funded by the German Research Foundation (extendable to 8 years). The project has strong overlap with gravitational wave detection research on instrumentation. The project aims at pushing the sensitivity and stability limits of rotational motion sensing with ring laser technology into new realms using approaches from quantum optics and metrology. The ultimate goal is to enable ring laser observations as a complement to classic space-geodetic methods towards more precise, high-rate estimation of Earth Orientation Parameters (EOP). Furthermore, we plan to develop…

14.04.2026 LHO Electrical Engineering Lead The LIGO Laboratory and LIGO Hanford Observatory invite applications for an Electrical Engineering Lead. We also ask that you circulate this announcement within your networks and encourage strong candidates to apply. Job Summary: At LIGO Hanford you’ll coordinate a skilled team of engineers and technicians in the design, testing, and maintenance of precision analog and digital electronics, playing a key role in the day-to-day operations of a one-of-a-kind scientific facility. You’ll collaborate with a diverse, international community of scientists and engineers, and have the opportunity to contribute to research that pushes the boundaries of what’s possible. This is a leadership role where your technical skills…

09.04.2026 PhD Scholarships – Statistics, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravitational Wave Astronomy in New Zealand The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is a cross-institutional research team spanning astrophysics, cosmology, mathematics and statistics with members at five New Zealand universities as well as international collaborators within the Vera Rubin Observatory and the International LISA Consortium. The NZ Astrostatistics and General Relativity Group (NZ Gravity) is coordinating applications for several PhD scholarships. Potential candidates will be part of an interdisciplinary team, working in areas such as: Interstellar objects, Stellar populations, Supernovae, Large scale structure formation and ultralight dark matter, Engaging with the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…