Post-doc | Fundamental Research Department

The Fundamental Research Department at the National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, invites applications for a post-doctoral research position. Department is conducting research in many disciplines of fundamental physics including: general theory of relativity, cosmology, quantum physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, high energy physics

Localization: Warsaw

This position is funded by the National Science Centre, under the Sonata-15 grant (PI: Jan Ostrowski) titled: ‘Cosmology beyond perturbation theory’. The main aim of this project is to model the Universe on cosmological scales with an exact, inhomogeneous solutions or properly averaged Einstein equations, however other related topics are also acceptable.

Requirements:

• PhD in physics, astronomy or related disciplines;
• experience in general relativity and/or cosmology is required;
• experience in modelling light propagation in a non-trivial space-times will be an advantage.

Documents:

• copy of the PhD diploma;
• cv;
• list of publications;
• two recommendation letters;
• short research statement.

We offer:

• Appointment will be for a two-year term starting no sooner than October 2021, with a possible extension for a third year depending on the performance;
• Monthly salary is 10k PLN before tax;
• Additional budget for scientific visits and participation in conferences is also available.

Contact:

• dr Jan Jakub Ostrowski,
  e-mail: Jan.Jakub.Ostrowski@ncbj.gov.pl

Applications in electronic form should be submitted to: Jan.Jakub.Ostrowski@ncbj.gov.pl by May 25th, 2021.

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The National Centre for Nuclear Research is awarded by “HR Excellence in Research”. Recruitment is based on OTM-R system (Open, Transparent and Merit-based recruitment practices in Research Performing Organisations).