The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT ”la Caixa” is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers—of any nationality—who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Spanish or Portuguese territory. Sponsored by ”la Caixa” Foundation, it is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain and Portugal by recruiting outstanding international students and offering them an attractive and competitive environment for conducting research of excellence.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona is a research centre accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence María de Maeztu in 2020, the perfect place to carry out your PhD project through an INPhINIT Incoming fellowship.
Research project:
The Gaia mission (ESA) is providing extensive catalogues with an unprecedented amount of data of extremely high precision. The upcoming third releases (EDR3 and DR3), with more than 1 billion stars, will constitute the ideal dataset for the study of the structure and kinematics of the Milky Way (MW).
The Gaia data has already unveiled a rich substructure of very young groups of stars and detected many unknown ones. We aim to explore the bunch of new Gaia data and from large spectrographs to detect distant and poor Open Clusters (OC) that have been unnoticed so far. The analysis of the cluster population will allow the understanding of the mechanisms of their formation and disruption and their contribution to the disc of the MW and, together with field stars, contribute to describe the chemo-dynamical history the disc.
Gaia has also been key to unveil the history of the MW and the fine details of its kinematics. In particular, its halo appears to be full of stellar substructures (dwarf and ultrafaint galaxies, and remnants of these systems) in agreement with the current model of galaxy formation. We aim to detect the faintest relics of satellite galaxies that may be hidden due to their distant location and low number of stars by using data mining techniques to look for small over-densities in the phase space of the stars. These findings will be relevant for the comparison with cosmological models, the understanding of how small galaxies are disrupted, and to fit the gravitational potential and history of the MW.
Beyond the MW, we will also use the new Gaia data to improve and extend our knowledge of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Extending our published work on its structure and kinematics, we will combine the Gaia data with other surveys to produce a full analysis of the Cloud, also identifying and studying its constituting populations and its substructures. If possible, this analysis will be extended to other members of the Local Group.
Job position description:
The PhD will be carried on a the ICCUB, integrated in the Gaia group which has long experience in the design, development, operation, archive and data exploitation of the mission. He/she will also benefit from the collaboration and interaction with the software engineering group at the ICCUB Technological Unit in order to develop and utilize Big Data and Data Mining tools to take full advantage of the amount and unique quality of the Gaia data; for this purpose we will develop data mining algorithms and probabilistic (hierarchical Bayesian) models and deploy them in supercomputing facilities.
The work in the PhD will combine the advanced data analysis and the scientific exploitation of the Gaia data and related surveys. The student will be formed in Data Science, data modelling and distributed computing, and will design, implement and deploy probabilistic models using state-of-the-art hardware and software infrastructures. These tools will run in the computing facilities accessible to the group and the institute, including the MareNostrum supercomputer, the CSUC facilities and Cloud environments. These tools will be applied to the scientific exploitation of the Gaia data for the objectives outlined above, which are in the forefront of the worldwide current investigations of the MW, its neighbourhood and its cosmological context.
Let us finally note that these developments have synergies with other groups at the institute, among others the wide team of researchers working on large-scale structure and observational cosmology.
More information:
Group Leader: Prof. Xavier Luri
Web page of the Gaia group at the ICCUB
Employment conditions
The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:
- Three annual payments of €34,800 each. Where applicable, the amounts corresponding to the Social Security contributions payable by the employer (in this case, the host institution), as well as any other compulsory fee, whether current or that may be provided for in a future legal framework, will be deducted from the yearly gross amount of €34,800 to be received by the fellow.
- €3,564 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.
The ”laCaixa” Foundation will award a prize of €7,500, which will be paid in the fourth year, should the fellow be able to deposit their thesis within 6 months after the third year of their fellowship has ended.
In addition to financial support, the fellowship includes a training programme on transversal skills, which has been specially designed by leading international institutions in the sector.
This programme includes aspects such as technology transfer, entrepreneurship, commercialisation of innovation, intellectual property, leadership, creativity, communication skills, teamwork, personal development, planning, assertiveness and networking.
Three sessions will be held: at the start of the fellowship, during the second year, and during the third year. Each session will last between 3 and 5 days, and attendance is mandatory for all fellows. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will coverall costs for these sessions, as well as the fellows’ accommodation and travel expenses.
For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.
Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is a research institute of the University of Barcelona. It is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics. In addition, the institute has a strong technology program through its participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
the institute of Cosmos Sciences has 50 professors, 10 ICREA professors, 37postdocs, 23 technicians and 61 PhD students. Postdoctoral staff at the ICCUBis largely international, above 60%.
Moreover, the ICCUB participates in many key international scientific consortia and projects, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Gaia astrometric space mission, the MAGIC / CTA high-energy astrophysics telescopes, and the Virgo gravitational wave detector, among others. Additional information about the institute and the University of Barcelona can be found here.
The institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
You will be encouraged to contribute and interact with other researchers in the vibrant and international research environment as well as to participate in our outreach initiatives, more information at serviAstro and serviParticules.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Institute of Cosmos Sciences promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in the physical sciences to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.
Requirements:
In order to be accepted, candidates must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Experience: At the call deadline, applicants must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree.
- Studies pursued: At the time of recruitment, candidates must comply with one of the following options:
- To have completed the studies that lead to an official university degree adapted to the European Higher Education Area awarding 300 ECTS credits, of which at least 60ECTS credits must correspond to master level.
- To have completed a degree in a university not adapted to the European Higher EducationArea that gives access to doctoral studies. The verification of an equivalent level of studies to the ones mentioned above will be made by the university when the admission procedure starts.
- Geographic mobility: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Short stays, such as holidays, done in a country other than their country of usual residence (where they carried out their main activity), will be considered as time spent in their country of usual residence.
- Level of English: Candidates must have a demonstrable level of English (B2 or higher).
- Complete applications: Only candidates whose applications meet all the requirements of the call may be accepted.
For more information on the candidates' requirements, please refer to this document.
All applications must be submitted online through the following link. For more information on the application procedure, please refer to this document.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org.
Deadline: Please submit your applications by February 4th 2021.
Selection process:
The process is comprised of three parts:
- Eligibility screening: all applications received are screened and applications that do not fulfil the criteria published in the call for applications rules are rejected.
- Remote evaluation (preselection): each of the eligible applications is sent to evaluation panel made up of two or three professors or researchers with broad experience in the discipline of the application and an extensive list of publications and/or contributions within this field. The application that receives the highest scores from each panel will pass to the next stage. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify candidates whether they have been shortlisted or not by e-mail on 22 April 2021.
- Final evaluation (selection): candidates whose applications have passed the shortlisting stage will be called in for an interview before a multidisciplinary committee comprised of professors and researchers with extensive experience in selection processes by peer review. The interviews will be held in Barcelona on 25, 26 and 27 May 2021. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify interviewed candidates of the outcome of the process by e-mail on 7 June 2021.
The rating criteria that govern the selection process can be found in the Evaluation of applications section of the ”la Caixa” Fellowship Programme website.
For more information on the selection process, please refer to this document.
The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT "la Caixa" is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers - of any nationality - who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Spanish or Portuguese territory. Sponsored by "la Caixa" Foundation, it is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain and Portugal by recruiting outstanding international students and offering them an attractive and competitive environment for conducting research of excellence.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona is a research centre accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence María de Maeztu in 2020, the perfect place to carry out your PhD project through an INPhINIT Incoming fellowship.
Research project:
The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window in our understanding of the Universe. The vast majority of the GW detections by the Advanced LIGO-Virgo interferometers are binary black holes (BBHs) with stellar masses (< 100 solar masses). The origin of these BBHs is an open question: they may have a cosmological origin and be part of the dark matter in the universe. Alternatively, they have an astrophysical origin and formed from binary/triple massive stars, or in dynamical interactions in dense stellar systems such as star clusters (SCs).
Several studies have shown that dynamically formed BBH mergers in SCs might be the dominant contribution to BBH mergers in the Universe. The BBH merger rate and binary properties in this scenario depend sensitively on the initial properties of SCs that formed between now and more than 10 Gyr ago. This opens the possibility to constrain star and star cluster formation at high redshift byGWs. To achieve this, we need independent constraints on the formation of star clusters from star formation theory as well as the present-day properties ofSCs.
The staff at ICCUB works on comprehensive, multi-physics and multi-scale computational models of the long-term evolution of stars and BHs in star clusters (Prof MarkGieles) and star (cluster) formation (Prof Paolo Padoan). The student will also benefit from interactions with members of the ICCUB cosmology group led by ProfLicia Verde and the ICCUB Galactic dynamics group led by Prof Carme Jordi. The student will have access to large supercomputing allocations through the European PRACE program and local special-purpose hardware (Graphics ProcessingUnits, GPUs), to carry out state-of-the-art astrophysical simulations. The ICCUB is a full member of the Virgo collaboration and actively involved in Gaia and Weave, such that you will work on the forefront of computational astrophysics, GWs and Milky Way research.
Job position description:
The presence of BHs in SCs has consequences for the observed density profile, kinematics and escape rate of stars. The present-day properties of SCs and their stellar streams can therefore be used to constrain the demographics of BHs in SC today. In particular, the student will exploit the wealth of kinematics provided by the Gaia space telescope and related surveys such as Weave to study the properties of both dissolved and surviving SCs with the help of dynamical models for the evolution of SCs with BHs as well as mass models of the present-day mass distribution of SCs with BHs. These models are fast enough to be used in Bayesian inference techniques to derive constraints on the initial masses and densities of observed SCs in the Milky Way, as well as their evolution and resulting BBH mergers.
The student has the option to get involved in multi-physics and multi-scale simulations of star cluster formation, to obtain independent constraints on SC formation from star formation theory.
The results for the Milky Way SC population are extrapolated to compute the BBH merger rates of all SCs in the Universe across cosmic time. The predictions include merger rate as a function of redshift, BH mass, mass ratio and the distribution of orbital eccentricities. These will be compared to GW data of BBH mergers in the ongoing LIGOVirgo (and soon Kagra) observing runs, to provide tight constraints on the fraction of all BBH mergers that originate from the dynamical channel and use GWs to constrain star and SC formation both in the present and in the early Universe!
More information:
Paper discussing the contribution of BBH mergers from star clusters
Paper describing a fast model for the evolution of star clusters and resulting BBH merger
Paper on supermassive star formation in globular clusters
Employment conditions
The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:
- Three annual payments of €34,800 each. Where applicable, the amounts corresponding to the Social Security contributions payable by the employer (in this case, the host institution), as well as any other compulsory fee, whether current or that may be provided for in a future legal framework, will be deducted from the yearly gross amount of €34,800 to be received by the fellow.
- €3,564 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.
The ”laCaixa” Foundation will award a prize of €7,500, which will be paid in the fourth year, should the fellow be able to deposit their thesis within 6 months after the third year of their fellowship has ended.
In addition to financial support, the fellowship includes a training programme on transversal skills, which has been specially designed by leading international institutions in the sector.
This programme includes aspects such as technology transfer, entrepreneurship, commercialisation of innovation, intellectual property, leadership, creativity, communication skills, teamwork, personal development, planning, assertiveness and networking.
Three sessions will be held: at the start of the fellowship, during the second year, and during the third year. Each session will last between 3 and 5 days, and attendance is mandatory for all fellows. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will coverall costs for these sessions, as well as the fellows’ accommodation and travel expenses.
For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.
Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is a research institute of the University of Barcelona. It is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics. In addition, the institute has a strong technology program through its participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
the institute of Cosmos Sciences has 50 professors, 10 ICREA professors, 37postdocs, 23 technicians and 61 PhD students. Postdoctoral staff at the ICCUBis largely international, above 60%.
Moreover, the ICCUB participates in many key international scientific consortia and projects, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Gaia astrometric space mission, the MAGIC / CTA high-energy astrophysics telescopes, and the Virgo gravitational wave detector, among others. Additional information about the institute and the University of Barcelona can be found here.
The institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
You will be encouraged to contribute and interact with other researchers in the vibrant and international research environment as well as to participate in our outreach initiatives, more information at serviAstro and serviParticules.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Institute of Cosmos Sciences promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in the physical sciences to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.
Requirements:
In order to be accepted, candidates must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Experience: At the call deadline, applicants must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree.
- Studies pursued: At the time of recruitment, candidates must comply with one of the following options:
- To have completed the studies that lead to an official university degree adapted to the European Higher Education Area awarding 300 ECTS credits, of which at least 60ECTS credits must correspond to master level.
- To have completed a degree in a university not adapted to the European Higher EducationArea that gives access to doctoral studies. The verification of an equivalent level of studies to the ones mentioned above will be made by the university when the admission procedure starts.
- Geographic mobility: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Short stays, such as holidays, done in a country other than their country of usual residence (where they carried out their main activity), will be considered as time spent in their country of usual residence.
- Level of English: Candidates must have a demonstrable level of English (B2 or higher).
- Complete applications: Only candidates whose applications meet all the requirements of the call may be accepted.
For more information on the candidates' requirements, please refer to this document.
All applications must be submitted online through the following link. For more information on the application procedure, please refer to this document.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org.
Deadline: Please submit your applications by February 4th 2021.
Selection process:
The process is comprised of three parts:
- Eligibility screening: all applications received are screened and applications that do not fulfil the criteria published in the call for applications rules are rejected.
- Remote evaluation (preselection): each of the eligible applications is sent to evaluation panel made up of two or three professors or researchers with broad experience in the discipline of the application and an extensive list of publications and/or contributions within this field. The application that receives the highest scores from each panel will pass to the next stage. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify candidates whether they have been shortlisted or not by e-mail on 22 April 2021.
- Final evaluation (selection): candidates whose applications have passed the shortlisting stage will be called in for an interview before a multidisciplinary committee comprised of professors and researchers with extensive experience in selection processes by peer review. The interviews will be held in Barcelona on 25, 26 and 27 May 2021. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify interviewed candidates of the outcome of the process by e-mail on 7 June 2021.
The rating criteria that govern the selection process can be found in the Evaluation of applications section of the ”la Caixa” Fellowship Programme website.
For more information on the selection process, please refer to this document.
The doctoral fellowship programme INPhINIT ”la Caixa” is devoted to attracting talented Early-Stage Researchers—of any nationality—who wish to pursue doctoral studies in Spanish or Portuguese territory. Sponsored by ”la Caixa” Foundation, it is aimed at supporting the best scientific talent and fostering innovative and high-quality research in Spain and Portugal by recruiting outstanding international students and offering them an attractive and competitive environment for conducting research of excellence.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona is a research centre accredited with the Spanish Seal of Excellence María de Maeztu in 2020, the perfect place to carry out your PhD project through an INPhINIT Incoming fellowship.
Research project:
Supervised machine-learning is emerging as a potentially disruptive technique to accurately predict the properties of complex quantum systems. It has already allowed researchers to drastically speed-up various important computational tasks in quantum chemistry and in condensed-matter physics [1,2], including: molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure calculations, structure-based molecular design, and protein-molecule binding-affinity predictions. The deep neural networks represent the most powerful and versatile statistical model.
Training them without over-fitting requires extremely copious datasets, often comprising hundreds of thousands of training instances. A possible approach is to adopt a transfer-learning strategy, as often done in the field of image analysis. In the case of quantum systems, transfer learning can be implemented by scaling to larger sizes neural networks that have been trained on smaller – therefore, computationally tractable – systems. A statistical model including particle number as an explicit system descriptor was recently investigated by our group in collaboration with Dr. S. Pilati (U. Camerino) [3].
The project will consist in devising proper artificial neural networks to describe interacting few-body systems which are nowadays produced in ultracold atomic gases experiments around the world [4]. In particular, we aim at having a proper model which uses as descriptors the confining potential, the particle number and the interaction strength for contact interacting bosons. We will generalize our model to dipolar interatomic interactions [5], which are long range and anisotropic.
[1] G. Carleo et al, Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 045002 (2019)
[2] J. Carrasquilla, Adv. Phys.-X 5, 1797528 (2020)
[3] P. Mujal, A. Martínez Miguel, A. Polls, B. Juliá-Díaz, S. Pilati, arXiv:2010.03875 (2020)
[4] AN Wenz et al, Science 342, 457 (2013)
[5] A. Gallemí, M. Guilleumas, R. Mayol, A. Sanpera, Phys. Rev. A 88, 063645 (2013)
Job position description:
The main objectives of this work are:
- Learn and apply the Machine Learning techniques to a few-body quantum system; train and adapt the available codes and improve them to our particular system.
- Generalize the neural network to more sophisticated interatomic interactions, such as the dipolar one, which in contrast to the usual contact interactions, is long range and anisotropic.
- Apply the sophisticated code to related many-body systems, for instance, large ultracold atomic samples, or nuclear and astronuclear systems.
The fellow will join the Quantum Technologies area of the ICCUB and will participate actively in our Quantum Technologies meetings and seminars. The fellow will pursue possible synergies in the Institute exploring the application of Machine Learning in other areas such as Nuclear and Astronuclear Physics. We will seek collaboration with experts in theoretical nuclear and astronuclear physics such as Dr. Arnau Rios. The student will join our network of international collaborators.
During the PhD period the student will participate in Schools and Workshops to strengthen his/her background, and he/she will be encouraged to present the results of the research at international conferences. The fellow is expected to learn: i) Performing theoretical and computational high-quality research; ii) Participating in the preparation of manuscripts for publication and of presentations at scientific conferences.
The PhD thesis will be co-supervised by two members of the Quantum Technologies group, Dr. Bruno Juliá and Dr. Montserrat Guilleumas, to profit from the different backgrounds and approaches used in this area. This will strengthen and broaden the formation of the fellow.
More information:
Web page of the group leader: Prof. Bruno Julià
Employment conditions
The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:
- Three annual payments of €34,800 each. Where applicable, the amounts corresponding to the Social Security contributions payable by the employer (in this case, the host institution), as well as any other compulsory fee, whether current or that may be provided for in a future legal framework, will be deducted from the yearly gross amount of €34,800 to be received by the fellow.
- €3,564 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.
The ”laCaixa” Foundation will award a prize of €7,500, which will be paid in the fourth year, should the fellow be able to deposit their thesis within 6 months after the third year of their fellowship has ended.
In addition to financial support, the fellowship includes a training programme on transversal skills, which has been specially designed by leading international institutions in the sector.
This programme includes aspects such as technology transfer, entrepreneurship, commercialisation of innovation, intellectual property, leadership, creativity, communication skills, teamwork, personal development, planning, assertiveness and networking.
Three sessions will be held: at the start of the fellowship, during the second year, and during the third year. Each session will last between 3 and 5 days, and attendance is mandatory for all fellows. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will coverall costs for these sessions, as well as the fellows’ accommodation and travel expenses.
For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.
Working at the Institute of Cosmos SciencesThe Institute of Cosmos Sciences is a research institute of the University of Barcelona. It is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics, and particle physics. In addition, the institute has a strong technology program through its participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
the institute of Cosmos Sciences has 50 professors, 10 ICREA professors, 37postdocs, 23 technicians and 61 PhD students. Postdoctoral staff at the ICCUBis largely international, above 60%.
Moreover, the ICCUB participates in many key international scientific consortia and projects, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Gaia astrometric space mission, the MAGIC / CTA high-energy astrophysics telescopes, and the Virgo gravitational wave detector, among others. Additional information about the institute and the University of Barcelona can be found here.
The institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
You will be encouraged to contribute and interact with other researchers in the vibrant and international research environment as well as to participate in our outreach initiatives, more information at serviAstro and serviParticules.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Institute of Cosmos Sciences promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in the physical sciences to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.
Requirements:
In order to be accepted, candidates must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Experience: At the call deadline, applicants must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree.
- Studies pursued: At the time of recruitment, candidates must comply with one of the following options:
- To have completed the studies that lead to an official university degree adapted to the European Higher Education Area awarding 300 ECTS credits, of which at least 60ECTS credits must correspond to master level.
- To have completed a degree in a university not adapted to the European Higher EducationArea that gives access to doctoral studies. The verification of an equivalent level of studies to the ones mentioned above will be made by the university when the admission procedure starts.
- Geographic mobility: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Short stays, such as holidays, done in a country other than their country of usual residence (where they carried out their main activity), will be considered as time spent in their country of usual residence.
- Level of English: Candidates must have a demonstrable level of English (B2 or higher).
- Complete applications: Only candidates whose applications meet all the requirements of the call may be accepted.
For more information on the candidates' requirements, please refer to this document.
All applications must be submitted online through the following link. For more information on the application procedure, please refer to this document.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org.
Deadline: Please submit your applications by February 4th 2021.
Selection process:
The process is comprised of three parts:
- Eligibility screening: all applications received are screened and applications that do not fulfil the criteria published in the call for applications rules are rejected.
- Remote evaluation (preselection): each of the eligible applications is sent to evaluation panel made up of two or three professors or researchers with broad experience in the discipline of the application and an extensive list of publications and/or contributions within this field. The application that receives the highest scores from each panel will pass to the next stage. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify candidates whether they have been shortlisted or not by e-mail on 22 April 2021.
- Final evaluation (selection): candidates whose applications have passed the shortlisting stage will be called in for an interview before a multidisciplinary committee comprised of professors and researchers with extensive experience in selection processes by peer review. The interviews will be held in Barcelona on 25, 26 and 27 May 2021. The ”la Caixa” Foundation will notify interviewed candidates of the outcome of the process by e-mail on 7 June 2021.
The rating criteria that govern the selection process can be found in the Evaluation of applications section of the ”la Caixa” Fellowship Programme website.
For more information on the selection process, please refer to this document.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellow in computational galaxy formation within the new "Milky Way & neighbours" group led by Dr. Chervin Laporte. They will perform cosmological zoom-in simulations of galaxy formation, with a focus on dwarf galaxies and Milky Way-like systems. Candidates with interests and experience in modelling star formation, feedback processes, chemical evolution on galactic scales in a cosmological context are encouraged to apply. Experience in code-development and using high performance computing to run and analyse simulations of galaxy formation would be desirable.
They will also have the opportunity to be involved in the scientific exploitation of the Gaia mission, WEAVE as well as participating in international collaborative networks and supervising students (if they wish). The ICCUB offers a stimulating environment with scientific staff working on a variety of topics from cosmology, extragalactic and Galactic astronomy to star formation and gravitational wave detection. The term of employment is for 3 years with potential for extensions. The position is funded by an ERC starting grant and comes with access to supercomputing and travel support. Candidates should have completed their PhD within the last six years.
The position is expected to begin around the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances. ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission). Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.edu
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics. The Institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
Applicants should submit a single PDF including a CV, a publication list and statement of research interests/plans (3 pages max.) and cover letter (optional) via the ICCUB application system. They should also provide three referees to be asked for a letter of reference. Applications received by January 1st, 2021 will receive full consideration, but the search will continue until the position is filled.
When you submit your application form with the three referees email address, our system automatically emails them requesting the recommendation letters and the instructions on how to submit them. Please check with your referees that they receive our email.
Característiques del lloc de treball
Treball en un projecte punter de recerca a nivell europeu (ESA).
Donar suport informàtic general a l'equip de treball (unes 25 persones entre astrònoms, enginyers i estudiants)
Tasques d'administració de sistemes
Manteniment dels ordinadors del grup (sistemes operatius, seguretat, programari divers, ...)
Gestió dels back-up
Avaluar les necessitats de nou maquinari i gestió de compres
Resolució d'incidències
Contracte a jornada completa
Criteri de selecció
Busquem:
Persona motivada per treballar en un entorn multidisciplinar en un projecte punter a nivell internacional.
Titulació en informàtica (Cicle formatiu superior, enginyer tècnic o similars)
Experiència en entorns Windows, Linux i Mac.
Actitud proactiva, responsable i dinàmica
Capacitat per treballar en equip i també de forma autònoma i flexible
Bon nivell d'anglès
Contacte i termini
Contacteu amb Lola Balaguer lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu.
Data límit per rebre CV’s 1 de febrer de 2021.
L'oferta es tancarà tan bon punt trobem una persona adient.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate in computational galaxy dynamics within the new research group of Dr. Chervin Laporte. Candidates with experience/interests in non-equilibrium dynamics are encouraged to apply. Experience in code-development, using high performance computing to run and analyse simulations (N-body and/or basis field expansion) and statistical modelling would be desirable. The fellow will develop an independent research line as well as participate in the group’s larger projects.
They will also have the opportunity to be involved in the scientific exploitation of the Gaia mission, WEAVE as well as participating in international collaborative networks and supervising students (if they wish). The ICCUB offers a stimulating environment with scientific staff working on a variety of topics from cosmology, extragalactic and Galactic astronomy to star formation and gravitational wave detection. The term of employment is for 3 years. The position is funded by an ERC starting grant and comes with access to supercomputing and travel support. Candidates should have completed their PhD within last six years.
The position is expected to begin around the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances. ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission). Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics. The Institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
Applicants should send a single PDF including a CV, a publication list and statement of research interests/plans (3 pages max.) and cover letter (optional) via the ICCUB application system. They should also provide 3 referees to be asked for a letter of reference. Applications received by January 8th 2021 will receive full consideration, but the search will continue until the position is filled.
When you submit your application form with the three referees email address, our system automatically emails them requesting the recommendation letters and the instructions on how to submit them. Please check with your referees that they receive our email.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a PhD studentship in galaxy formation in the new "Milky Way & neighbours" group led by Dr. Chervin Laporte. The main goal of the PhD is to study the early accretion history of the Milky Way through the development of numerical simulations of the stellar halo in a cosmological context using current available observational constraints. The aim of the project is to shed light on the dynamical structure and chemical properties of the most ancient galaxies (and their satellites) which were accreted and making testable predictions which can be investigated with current and upcoming large spectroscopic surveys of the Galaxy. These surveys will not only provide a six dimensional phase-space view of the stellar halo, but also unleash a whole array of complementary information through the measurement of different chemical abundances. The over-arching question/theme of the PhD is what can we learn about galaxy formation in the high-redshift Universe (as well as our own Galaxy) using the stellar halo of the Milky Way as a time machine? In this project, the student will develop skills in computational astrophysics further extending the versatility of existing N-body codes coupled with predictive models of galaxy formation in chemical abundance space. Some experience with coding (e.g. in C, C++, IDL or Python) would be very useful.
In this project, the student will also have the chance to be involved in the scientific exploitation of the Gaia mission, WEAVE as well as participating in international collaborative networks in computational astrophysics. The ICCUB offers a stimulating environment with scientific staff working on a variety of topics from cosmology, extragalactic and Galactic astronomy to star formation and gravitational wave detection.
The term of employment is for 3 years. The position is funded by an ERC starting grant and comes with access to supercomputing and travel support. The candidate should hold a Master’s degree in mathematics, physics or astrophysics The position is expected to begin around the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances. ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission). Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics. The Institute is situated in Barcelona, which offers an outstanding scientific and cultural environment, entertainment and sports as well as outstanding food and music.
Applicants should send a single PDF including a CV, a cover letter motivating your application (indicating why you are applying), a research statement detailing your personal research interests and prior research experience in any field of physics/astrophysics/mathematics (2 pages max.), University transcripts (up to the moment of application in case you do not hold a Masters degree yet) via the ICCUB application system. They should also provide two referees to be asked for a letter of reference. Applications received by January 8th 2021 will receive full consideration, but the search will continue until the position is filled.
When you submit your application form with the three referees email address, our system automatically emails them requesting the recommendation letters and the instructions on how to submit them. Please check with your referees that they receive our email.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
Key duties:
- Organize, carry out and disseminate the scientific and outreach activities of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences.
- Content creation and webpage maintenance of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, as well as outreach web pages, serviAstro and serviParticles
- Design and develop outreach graphic material in coordination with the different groups of the institute
- Management of the social networks of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, institutional and outreach
- Support in the elaboration of reports
- Support to the members of the Institute in the elaboration, diffusion and coordination of press releases and news with the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia and other institutions
- Elaboration of the press collection of the institute
- Support the Manager of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences
- Elaboration of newsletters and bulletins of internal and external news.
Requirements:
The candidates are expected to hold a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in sciences, and a Master or Postgrau in scientific communication will be appreciated.
- Level C1 in Catalan
- Level C1 in English
- Experience in writing news, press releases and reports
- Knowledge in graphic design (Ex.Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom)
- Experience managing social media accounts
- Experience in Website Content Manager (Ex. Drupal)
Employment conditions:
Position is for one years renewable for tw years depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be in the range of 27k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to begin February or March 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
The position will be located at Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
Application procedure:
All applications must be submitted through the University of Barcelona's system. More information here.
Deadline:
Applications should be submitted before January 12th.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for its 7 Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center hosting a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
We are searching for enthusiastic researchers in the following areas: fundamental cosmology, gravitational waves (including their connection to fundamental physics), large-scale structure surveys, physics of strongly coupled dense matter, axion physics and axion detection experiments, particle physics beyond the Standard Model, galactic dynamics and evolution in the Gaia era, and quantum computation and simulation.
Additional information on these research areas can be found here. Synergies and collaborations across research lines are highly encouraged.You will have the opportunity to work in our highly interdisciplinary and international institute, where collaboration with different faculty members and research groups is nurtured and cultivated.
Applicants must have a PhD in Physics, Astrophysics or related fields, or be on track to obtain it by the time the contract starts.
Specific job advertisements:
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Dark Energy and the Origin of the Universe
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Strongly Coupled Matter
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Beyond the Standard Model: New Particles and Dark Matter
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy through Gaia
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Computation and Simulation
Employment conditions:
Positions are for two years renewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be in the range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Positions are expected to begin no later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances. More information on specific positions associated to each of the research lines can be found here.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call or email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
- Three letters of recommendation
- URL to publications in a public database
Click here to submit your apllication
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
This positions are financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M)
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Beyond the Standard Model: New Particles and Dark Matter for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
The candidates are expected to have, or be about to submit, a PhD degree in particle physics with a strong background in one or several the following topics: Flavour Physics, bot phenomenology or experimental High Energy Physics, including, but no limited to, beyond the SM physics, dark Matter direct detection (Xenon phenomenology), axion physics (IAXO) and axion detection by radio-frequency (RADES).
Faculty members of our group working in these areas include Federico Mescia, Eugeni Graugés, Lluís Garrido, Joan Soto, Domènec Espriu, Concepción González, Javier Virto, Jordi Miralda, Alessio Notari and Jorge Casalderrey.
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two yearsrenewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be inthe range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to beginno later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases ofmaternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
- Three letters of recommendation
- URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Federico Mescia (mescia@fqa.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Beyond the Standard Model: New Particles and Dark Matter for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
We will investigate the properties of strongly coupled matter in two situations with potential synergies with other lines, especially with gravitational waves.
1. Strongly coupled matter in a cosmological context. Motivations for this come from the QCD phase transition one microsecond after the Big Bang, from the possible existence of Grand Unified Theories beyond the Standard Model, or from the possibility that dark matter is strongly self-interacting. We will pay particular attention to the production of gravitational waves, especially in the presence of phase transitions. There are also potential implications for new production mechanisms of primordial black holes.
2. Strongly coupled matter in neutron star mergers. The gravitational wave signal produced in these mergers depends on the properties of strongly coupled QCD matter, ranging from static ones (equation of state) to dynamical ones (transport coefficients, etc). We will employ a variety of approaches to connect these microscopic properties to the experimental signal detected at LIGO and VIRGO.
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two yearsrenewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be inthe range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to beginno later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases ofmaternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
- Three letters of recommendation
- URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Prof. David Mateos (dmateos@fqa.ub.edu) or Prof. Àngels Aran (ramos@fqa.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dark Energy and the Origin of the Universe for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
We are looking for enthusiastic researchers who share our curiosity to understand the physics of the Universe from the infinitely small to the infinitely large and the deep connections between these different scales.
You will have the opportunity to work on large-scale structure cosmology, (both theoretical and observational), dark energy and Early Universe.
Forthcoming surveys with exquisite statistical power promise advances on big open questions with deep links to fundamental physics: the nature of dark energy and dark matter, neutrino masses, the early Universe physics driving inflation, etc.
The rapidly growing amount of data in cosmological surveys demands a strong analysis effort to extract important scientific discoveries; a close interaction between theory and observations is crucial for formulating the most relevant questions and developing precise data analysis techniques to find the correct answers.
We anticipate that this process will be strongly influenced by the nascent field of multi-messenger cosmology: gravitational waves with electromagnetic counterparts (e.g, providing redshift measurements). As an example of promising synergies, this combination will result in independent distance measurements, and cross-correlating gravitational wave sources with galaxy maps can trace the origin of black hole mergers (see line B here).
You will be joining a broad group of researchers with interests in Cosmology, -- see https://sites.google.com/icc.u
Experience with cosmology, analysis of data, statistics, possibly applied in the cosmological context and being proficient with coding is highly desirable. Familiarity with inflation, general relativity and field theory would be valued. Familiarity with high performance computing is a welcome plus.
Members of this group are involved in the following surveys/collaborations: DESI, EUCLID.
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two yearsrenewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be inthe range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to beginno later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases ofmaternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
- Three letters of recommendation
- URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Prof. Licia Verde (liciaverde@icc.ub.edu) or Prof. Jaume Garriga (jgarriga@fqa.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking to appoint at least one Postdoctoral Fellow in Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30% international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
The candidate can pursue independent research within the broad theme "Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves". The ICC is a full member of the Virgo collaboration and to consolidate our scientific participation in the collaboration we welcome in particular research proposals that benefit from Virgo membership. Within the broad research framework of this post, ICC staff members are active in the areas of gravity and extremely compact objects, dynamical binary black hole formation, primordial black holes and the equation-of-state of neutron stars.
More information about research group composition can be found here:
http://icc.ub.edu/research/research_areas/theoretical_cosmology
http://icc.ub.edu/research/research_areas/gravitational_waves
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two years renewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be in the range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to begin no later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission). Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
·Curriculum Vitae
·Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
·Three letters of recommendation
·URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Prof. Roberto Emparan (emparan@ub.edu) or Prof. Mark Gieles (mgieles@ub.edu).
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovationt hrough the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy through Gaia for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
The vast improvement in astrometric accuracy for nearly 2 billion stars achieved by the Gaia mission is revolutionizing the studies of theMilky Way (MW) and their relation to cosmology. The ICCUB is uniquely positioned for science exploitation because of 1) our participation in the mission since its beginning, 2) our local expertise on galactic dynamics and 3)our leadership in building the Gaia Archive with its associated repository and Data Mining systems. The ICCUB Technological Unit is developing tools for data processing, distributed computing and big data to exploit more efficiently the Gaia Archive.
We are seeking candidates who can make a significant contribution to the understanding of the structure and history of the MW, improving upon the local and current description of the MW, and which help usunderstand galaxies in a cosmological framework, by using the upcoming third Gaia Data releases (end 2020 and first half of 2022) and related surveys (e.g.Gaia-ESO, WEAVE, 4MOST, OCCASO, MIRADAS and JPLUS/JPAS).
This includes research in topics like the stellar initial mass function and star formation history of the MW components; Galactic dynamics (spiral arms and bar dynamics, perturbation from external galaxies, streams etc); the MW chemical evolution traced by field stars and clusters coupled with Galactic dynamics; modelling of the substructures of star-forming regions revealed by Gaia; globular clusters and the initial mass function athigh-redshift ; characterization of the ultra-faint dwarf-galaxy population around the MW to test DM models . Synergies among topics and with the other priority lines in the ICCUB will be evaluated positively.
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two yearsrenewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be inthe range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to beginno later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases ofmaternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
Curriculum Vitae
Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
Three letters of recommendation
URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Carme Jordi (carme@icc.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow in Quantum Computation and Simulation for its Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu postdoctoral positions. Find out more positions in related areas here.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
The candidates are expected to hold a PhD in physics, mathematics, computer science, or any related area.
A strong background in one or several of the following topics will be especially considered:
Quantum many-body theory, Quantum Simulation, Ultracold atomic gases, Tensor Networks, Quantum information inspired approaches to field and gauge theories, Quantum computation, Quantum Optics and Nanophotonics.
Faculty members of our group working in these areas include Maria Moreno-Cardoner, Muntsa Guilleumas, Sofyan Iblisdir, Bruno Julia-Diaz y Luca Tagliacozzo.
The priority lines of the Maria de Maeztu proposal canbe found here.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.
Employment conditions:
Position is for two yearsrenewable for a third year depending on performance and funding.
Gross annual salary will be inthe range of 32 to 36 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to beginno later than the fall of 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases ofmaternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be required for your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Description and Plan (maximum 6 pages)
- Three letters of recommendation
- URL to publications in a public database
All applications must be submitted online through this link.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallares (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Prof. Bruno Julià (bruno@fqa.ub.edu)
Deadline:
Applications should be uploaded in here before December 8th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
Postdoctoral positions funded by the String Theory, Gravitation and Cosmology group at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC), University of Barcelona, are now open.
Faculty members at our group include Roberto Emparan, Bartomeu Fiol, Jaume Garriga, Cristiano Germani, David Mateos, Alessio Notari and Enric Verdaguer.
For information about research at the ICC please visit http://icc.ub.edu
Appointments will begin in the Fall of 2021 for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is November 30th 2020.
The University of Barcelona is part of a group of European institutes with a centralized system of postdoctoral applications. Candidates should apply through the following website, choosing Barcelona as one of their preferred institutes:
Interested candidates are also encouraged to apply to other ICC postdoctoral positions in related areas at http://icc.ub.edu/
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Institute of Cosmos Sciences promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.
Postdoctoral positions are now open at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona. Candidates in the following areas are encouraged to apply:
- Particle physics phenomenology related to neutrino physics, Higgs physics, B physics and effective theories, and heavy ion physics.
- Cosmology and astroparticle physics.
- String theory and holography broadly defined.
Faculty members of our group working in these areas include Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Domenec Espriu, Joaquim Gomis, M.C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Federico Mescia, Josep Maria Pons, Jorge Russo, Joan Sola, Joan Soto, Josep Taron and Javier Virto.
For more information about research at the ICC please visit http://icc.ub.edu
Employment conditions
Appointments will be for a period of 2+1 years with the third year subject to performance and funding availability.
The default starting date will be in the Fall 2021, but earlier starting dates can be considered. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2020.
Applications procedure
Applications must be done online through the ICC application.
Applications should include a CV, a statement of research interests, a list of publications, and the letters of recommendation from three senior physicists.
Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Miriam Gutiérrez (secretaria@icc.ub.edu).
We also recommend to the applicants to send a short email to the faculty member of our group whose work is more closely related to their interest letting them know of their application.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Institute of Cosmos Sciences promotes a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call or email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.
Deadline: Please submit your applications by November 30th, 2020
Contact: Gonzalez-Garcia, Maria Concepción, email: concha@fqa.ub.edu
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Softwareand Data Engineering department of The Technological Unit of the ICCUB.
The ICCUB (http://icc.ub.edu)is an interdisciplinary center devoted to fundamental research in the fields ofcosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. The ICCUB Technology Unit focuseson inventing and building the ambitious and innovative detection instruments ofthe future. This involves collaborating on large projects related to particlephysics experiments, space missions, astronomical facilities and others.
The ICCUB is a center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers(55% international) and PhD students (30% international) offering aninternational and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
Job description
Currently, the unit is composed by a team of around 20 engineers and researchers divided in two departments, Electronics & Instrumentation and Software and Data Engineering. The Software and Data Engineering department designs software to help producing high quality datasets, which give significance to the experiments and to the Physics behind, like Gaia (https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia) or LHCb (http://lhcb.web.cern.ch/).
Since 2018, the ICCUB participates at scientific and technological level in Virgo (https://www.virgo-gw.eu/). Virgo is a large Michelson interferometer with 3km arms, designed to detect gravitational waves predicted by the general theory of relativity.
We search for a highly motivated Software Engineer with demonstrated experience in collaborative software development for high-performance or high-throughput computing environments.
To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB,please follow this link.
Taks:
The main tasks to develop are:
- Support to the low-latency and alerts system:
- Act as a reviewer of merge requests in Git
- Take in charge coding and tests of change requests discussed within the LIGO/Virgo low-latency group
- Support the implementation of a full end-to-end test facility with some component deployed at a Virgo Computing Centre and some on cloud (such as AWS)
- Participate in the porting to cloud (via Ansible + Docker swarm / Kubernetes) of low-latency components
- Support the deployment of are dundant hosting of GraceDB in Europe
- Support to computing pipelines and data handling frameworks
- Implementation of file catalogue and accounting systems
- Implementation of an adequate Workflow Management System
- Optimization and improvements of data analysis pipelines
- E.g., revision and optimization of the whitening algorithm
- Improvement of Virgo data handling
- Discuss and, if agreed, support the migration of raw data from Frames to HDF5
- Study the application of optimized data compressors to raw data
- Preparations for Einstein Telescope (ET)
- Study the ET case and work outan initial proposal (in collaboration with Virgo computing experts) for its data handling and computing strategy
Requirements:
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent
- Master Degree or equivalent
- English C1 level
Essencials:
- Linux, shell scripting, C/C++ and Python programming
Desirable:
- SVNand/or Git, CMake, Conda
- Knowledge or expertise on high-performance or high-throughput computing (speciallyHTCondor)
- Knowledge or expertise on Docker, Kubernetes, ROOT, HDF5
Bonus track (desirable but not so important):
- Knowledge or expertise on Rucio, Kafka, CVMF
Employment conditions:
We offer a full-time contractfor a period of three years with a 6 months trial period.
Gross annual salary will be in the range of 34 to 35 k€, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.
Position is expected to begin on1st January 2021, although exceptions can be made in cases of maternity/paternity or other special circumstances.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
ICCUB offers and promotes adiverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation (for additional information please see the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission. Job seekers in need of a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should call or email secretaria@icc.ub.eduwith their request.
Application procedure:
Documents that will be requiredfor your application are:
- Curriculum Vitae
- Motivation letter
All applications must send an email to Dr. Jordi Portell (jportell@fqa.ub.edu).
Deadline:
Applications should be submitted before November 15th to receive full consideration, but those uploaded later will also be considered until positions are filled.
Funding:
The position is financed by the State Agency for Research of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the "Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu 2020-2023" award to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (CEX2019-000918-M).
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge.
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge. Thanks to this recognition, it is avalaible in the Aid for pre-doc contracts for the training of doctors (FPI 2020 call) the following project, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation:
- Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves, PI Mark Gieles, Reference CEX2019-000918-M-20-1
Understanding the origin of coalescing binary black holes in LIGO-Virgo from their eccentricities
The LIGO and Virgo interferometers have detected gravitational waves (GW) from several dozens of coalescing binary black hole (BBHs). Several formation channels are able to explain the BBH merger rate, leaving their origin an open question. The dynamical formation of BBHs in dense stellar systems is a promising model and it predicts that a fraction of BBHs have measurable orbital eccentricities, making this a "smoking gun" signal. Thanks to continuous improvements of GW detector sensitivity - to which the Technological Unit of the ICCUB is actively contributing - empirical constraints on BBH eccentricity are starting to arrive. You will use gravitational N-body simulations and a BBH population synthesis model to make predictions for the eccentricity distribution of BBHs that formed in all star clusters in the Universe. Then, by using Numerical Relativity techniques, you will infer eccentricities from the GW data and explore degeneracies with other binary parameters. You will join the ICCUB Virgo group, consisting of PhD students, post-docs, academics and technical staff who all share a passion for GW research. You will also join the Virgo Collaboration and work on the forefront of GW data analyses and interpretation. This project will provide valuable model predictions and test them with the wealth of GW data that is arriving as we speak to shed light on the origin of BHBs.
For more information contact Prof Mark Gieles
Requirements:
Who can apply for a grant for pre-doctoral contracts for the training of doctors 2020?
Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2020/2021 academic year, at the time of submission of the application. Applicants may also be all those people who, at the time of submission of the application, not being enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program, are in a position to be on the date on which the contract is formalized, in accordance with article 18
Applications must be submitted online at the URL (https://sede.micinn.gob.es/ayudaspredoctorales/) of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from October 13 to October 27, 2020 at 2:00PM CET. To request the present research project please use the following reference: CEX2019-000918-M-20-1.
Employment conditions:
What is the annual gross amount of the pre-doctoral contracts?
The minimum salary compensation that researchers in training must receive will be 16,250 euros gross per year for each of the first two years, 17,410 for the third year and 21,760 for the fourth year.
What is the duration of the aid?
Four years.
More information here
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment (for additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission) and strongly encourages women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply.
The High Energy Astrophysics group at Universitat de Barcelona offers a PhD grant to join the group. The PhD student would gather multi-wavelength observations of galactic and/or transient sources and work on the interpretation and modelling of the data. He or she would become a member of the MAGIC Collaboration (and possibly of the CTA Consortium) and conduct observation shifts at the Canary Island of La Palma.
Our grup has experience in a multidisciplinary approach to high-energy processes in galactic and extragalactic sources with astrophysical outflows. The observational studies are conducted using forefront ground-based and satellite-born facilities such as VLA, EVN, ESO telescopes and GTC, Chandra and XMM, Agile and Fermi or MAGIC. The theoretical studies are carried out through numerical and semi-analytical modeling (radiation processes, magnetohydrodynamics).
We offer a pre-doctoral contract of up to 4 years in total funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the “Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su Empleabilidad en I+D+I” (FPI). This position is associated to the R+D project PID2019-105510GB-C31.
Interested people should apply from 13 to 27 of October through the URL of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.
Suitable candidates are those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2020/2021 academic year at the time of submission of the application or that are in a position to be on the date the contract is formalized.
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment (for additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission) and strongly encourages women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply.
Inquiries about the scientific aspects of the contract should be addressed to jmparedes@ub.edu
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
LHCb is an experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) operating since the fall of 2010. During the RUN-I and RUN-II it has taken data at √s=7 TeV (2011), √s=8 TeV (2012) and √s=13 TeV (2015-2018), showing extraordinary performance and integrating a total of 9 fb-1 of data. From the end of 2018, LHC underwent into a scheduled shutdown (LS2) and an upgraded LHCb detector will be installed and commissioned, starting the RUN-III data taking in 2021 until 2023. This phase-I upgrade will employ a 40 MHz readout with a very flexible software-based trigger, which will provide significantly increased efficiency in hadronic final states, and allow the experiment to function effectively at the higher luminosity of 2 x1033 cm-2s-1, doubling the signal efficiency of the physics channels. The upgraded detector is expected to offer the experiment the capability to trigger on new interesting signatures, such as long-lived particles, opening new physics opportunities.
The timescale of the proposed PhD thesis (2021-2025) implies the physics exploitation of the already accumulated RUN-II LHCb data, the installation, commissioning and maintenance of the phase-I upgrade detector, the operation of the detector and exploitation of RUN-III data. In addition, opportunities to participate in the R&D activities for the phase-II upgraded detector after RUN-III might as well be considered.
Requirements:
Who can apply for a grant for pre-doctoral contracts for the training of doctors 2020?
Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2020/2021 academic year, at the time of submission of the application. Applicants may also be all those people who, at the time of submission of the application, not being enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program, are in a position to be on the date on which the contract is formalized, in accordance with article 18.
Applications must be submitted online at the URL (https://sede.micinn.gob.es/ayudaspredoctorales/) of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from October 13 to October 27, 2020 at 2:00PM CET. To request the present research project please use the following reference: PID2019-106448GB-C31.
Employment conditions:
What is the annual gross amount of the pre-doctoral contracts?
The minimum salary compensation that researchers in training must receive will be 16,250 euros gross per year for each of the first two years, 17,410 for the third year and 21,760 for the fourth year.
What is the duration of the aid?
Four years.
More information here
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment (for additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission) and strongly encourages women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply.
Our research group at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences in the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is looking for a Doctoral candidate (PhD student) to work in the field of Extragalactic Astronomy.
We offer a pre-doctoral contract of up to 4 years in total funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through its FPI 2020 call.
Our grup has an ample trajectory in the field of galaxy formation and evolution by means of theoretical modelling of evolutionary mechanisms, numerical simulations of galaxies in associations and statistical computing applied to large datasets.
The scientific interests range from to the study of the nurturing effects of the environment on galaxies, through the phenomenon of active galaxy nuclei, to the formation of the diffuse intergalactic light.
We also have important national and international collaborations and participate in several observational projects involving top-level ground-based facilities such as the CAHA 3.5m telescope at Calar Alto, MeerKAT and the VLA.
The successful candidate is expected to submit a PhD thesis before the end of the contract. He/she will conduct research in the life history of present-day lenticular galaxies. The main goal of the thesis will be to look for possible differences in the evolutionary paths that these objects follow according to the environmnet in which they reside and identify the physical mechanisms driving them.
This subject will be approached from the perspective of a comprehensive analysis of photometric and spectral measurements of the local lenticular galaxy population, with special emphasis in the exploitation of the large database of spatially resolved spectra provided by the SDSS survey MaNGA.
Suitable candidates are those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2020/2021 academic year at the time of submission of the application or that are in a position to be on the date the contract is formalized.
Applications must be submitted online at the URL of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from October 13 to October 27, 2020 at 2:00PM CET. To request the present research project please use the following reference: PID2019-106027GB-C43.
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment (for additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission) and strongly encourages women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply.
Inquiries about the scientific aspects of the contract should be addressed to jm.solanes@ub.edu
The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment. The ICCUB also hosts a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology,astrophysics and particle physics, with a strong technology unit supporting our participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition has been awarded by the Spanish Government in 2020 for the second time to the ICCUB, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge. Thanks to this recognition, it is available in the Aid for pre-doc contracts for the training of doctors (FPI 2020 call) the following project, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation:
- Strongly Coupled Matter, PI David Mateos, Reference CEX2019-000918-M-20-2
We will investigate the properties of strongly coupled matter in two situations with potential synergies with other lines, especially with gravitational waves.
1. Strongly coupled matter in a cosmological context. Motivations for this come from the QCD phase transition one microsecond after the Big Bang, from the possible existence of Grand Unified Theories beyond the Standard Model, or from the possibility that dark matter is strongly self-interacting. We will pay particular attention to the production of gravitational waves, especially in the presence of phase transitions. There are also potential implications for new production mechanisms of primordial black holes.
2. Strongly coupled matter in neutron star mergers. The gravitational wave signal produced in these mergers depends on the properties of strongly coupled QCD matter, ranging from static ones (equation of state) to dynamical ones (transport coefficients, etc). We will employ a variety of approaches to connect these microscopic properties to the experimental signal detected at LIGO and VIRGO.
Requirements:
Who can apply for a grant for pre-doctoral contracts for the training of doctors 2020?
Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2020/2021 academic year, at the time of submission of the application. Applicants may also be all those people who, at the time of submission of the application, not being enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program, are in a position to be on the date on which the contract is formalized, in accordance with article 18.
Applications must be submitted online at the URL (https://sede.micinn.gob.es/ayudaspredoctorales/) of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from October 13 to October 27, 2020 at 2:00PM CET. To request the present research project please use the following reference: CEX2019-000918-M-20-2.
Employment conditions:
What is the annual gross amount of the pre-doctoral contracts?
The minimum salary compensation that researchers in training must receive will be 16,250 euros gross per year for each of the first two years, 17,410 for the third year and 21,760 for the fourth year.
What is the duration of the aid?
Four years.
More information here
ICCUB offers and promotes a diverse and inclusive environment (for additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission) and strongly encourages women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply.
Contact: David Mateos (dmateos@icc.ub.edu)
“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.
Description of our Institute:
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is an interdisciplinary center devoted to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. In addition, the Institute has a strong technology program through its participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
The ICCUB has been awarded the Maria de Maeztu distinction which recognizes our leadership and research impact. Our main lines of research, as well as the associated faculty members, can be found here: http://icc.ub.edu/
The ICCUB is concerned about the under representation of women, as well as other underrepresented minorities in the fields of sciences of the cosmos, and therefore strongly encourages their application.
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). The objectives of this programme are to foster high-quality, innovative research in Spain and Portugal and to support the best scientific talent by providing them with an attractive, competitive environment in which to conduct excellent research.
The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is divided into two different frames, to conduct your research project at the Institute you must apply to the Incoming program:
Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Incoming: 30 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of all nationalities. They will be offered a three-year employment contract 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.
For Spanish institutions, candidates must have resided in Spain less than 12 months in the last three years while for Portuguese institutions, candidates must have resided in Portugal less than 12 months in the last three years.
This frame is co-funded by the European Commission within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions scheme of Horizon2020.
Requirements:
Researchers of any nationality are eligible for the Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme. In order to get accepted, candidates must meet the following requirements:
Experience: They should have earned their doctoral degree two to seven years prior to the deadline of the call for applications. The date of the doctoral thesis defence will be understood as the date when the doctoral degree was obtained. In the cases of interruption of the research activity between the date of obtaining the doctoral degree and the call deadline, the candidate may request an extension of the period in which the doctoral degree must have been obtained.
Geographic mobility:
For candidates applying to Spanish centres or units: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than twelve months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call. Short stays, such as holidays, will not be taken into account.For candidates applying to Portuguese units: Candidates must not have resided or have carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Portugal for more than twelve months in the three years immediately preceding the closing date of the call. Short stays, such as holidays, will not be taken into account.
Special mobility condition could apply for the in the cases of interruption of the research activity or researchers who have spent time in the procedure for obtaining the refugee status under the Geneva Convention.
Complete applications: Only candidates whose applications meet all the requirements of the call may be accepted.
Application: ”la Caixa” fellowship application website
The Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech SL startup company is looking for candidates to join a team of quantum scientists and quantum engineers to build and operate one of the first generations of commercial European quantum processors.
Open position
Quantum Engineer in electronics for superconducting qubits.
We offer a young scientist position holding a master's degree or equivalent to join the experimental team at Qilimanjaro.
Requirements:
-Master's degree or equivalent in Quantum Physics, Electronics engineering or equivalent.
-Candidates with experience in the following areas will be particularly considered: knowledge in quantum information and superconducting qubits in particular, programming skills, electronic circuits design of DC and RF circuits.
Position description
Main tasks: Scalable electronics for qubit control. Low frequency and high frequency electronics development. Circuit simulation, design, and implementation. Integration with superconducting qubit experiments.
This young scientist position is a unique opportunity to become a trained researcher in the field of quantum computation and the emerging quantum industry. This position is targeted at highly motivated researchers who are willing to join a diverse, international environment with strong overlaps between experimental and theoretical physics and engineering.
Young scientist positions may be combined with a PhD degree in one of the local universities in Barcelona (University of Barcelona[UB], Autonomous University of Barcelona [UAB], Polytechnical University ofCatalonia [UPC]). Registration costs to the PhD program will be included in the contract.
The position will be carried out between the Qilimanjaro laboratory headquarters in the Barcelona area and the electronics department of the University of Barcelona, as well as Qilimanjaro’s remote sites.
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is an inclusive company and an equal opportunity employer. No discrimination will be made on the basis of race, religion, color, nationalorigin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Interested applicants may submit a letter of intent to qilimanjaro@qilimanjaro.tech
Details of the positions
Applications are invited for one or two postdoctoral positions in the field of Quantum Computation. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Sofyan Iblisdir and Dr. Luca Tagliacozzo, at the University of Barcelona (Spain) in quantum computation and related topics, from developing and characterizing new quantum algorithms, to their classical simulation, to the characterization of noise and imperfections in specific experimental implementations, to quantum machine learning. Beside quantum computation, the group has strong expertise in the theory of many-body quantum systems at and out of equilibrium, and in tensor networks techniques. The positions are for a period of 1 year that will be possibly extended to 2 years depending on performances and availability of funding. The positions should be filled as soon as possible.Desired requirements
Applicants are expected to have a doctoral degree in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or are lated discipline before the starting date of the position, and have previous expertise in one (or more) of the following areas: quantum computation, quantum information, tensor networks,machine learning, quantum many-body systems, condensed matter physics, quantum field theory. Applicants should have a strong interest in solving challenging problems, as well as a proven recor dof research, including publication of original work in at least one of the above areas. Excellent scientific writing ability and good communication skills are essential.
How to apply
Applications should be sent to Dr. Sofyan Iblisdir and should include: 1) a motivation letter;2) a curriculum vitae including a list of publications; 3) a research statement; 4) the name and email of two references. For full consideration, applications should be submitted by the 10th of March 2020.
Please direct informal enquiries to:
Dr Sofyan Iblisdir: sofyan.iblisdir@fqa.ub.edu
Dr Luca Tagliacozzo: luca.tagliacozzo@fqa.ub.edu
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration without regard to appearance, beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or age.
Description
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (http://icc.ub.edu) is an interdisciplinary center devoted to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics.
The person hired will join the Electronics & Instrumentation department of The Technological Unit of ICCUB. Currently, the unit is composed by a team of around 20 engineers and researchers divided in two departments, Electronics & Instrumentation and Software and Data Engineering. The Electronics & Instrumentation department develops electronics instrumentation for international scientific collaborations. Some examples of the projects the department is involved: the LHCb experiment at the CERN synchrotron (http://lhcb.web.cern.ch/lhcb/), the Cherenkov telescope array, CTA, (https://www.cta-observatory.org/) or the gravitational wave observatory, Virgo (http://www.virgo-gw.eu/).
• Responsabilities
We search for highly motivated Electronics or Telecommunications Engineer with demonstrated experience of 3 years in software and firmware development. We offer a full-time contract starting as soon as possible for a period of 1 year (with 6 months of trial period), possibilities to continue after are opened. The salary will be according to the experience of the candidate.
The working place will be based at the ICCUB facilities (Technological Unit of the ICCUB at Parc Cientific de Barcelona).
The main tasks to develop are:
• Firmware development for control systems and data acquisition on FPGAs. Knowledge on VHDL or Verilog.
• C++ software development for control and data acquisition through USB or Ethernet.
• User interface development.
• Lab instrumentation control through SCPI and automatized test system
implementation.
• System integration.
• Technical documentation development.
• Required Technical Expertise
• C++
• VHDL or Verilog
• Threads
• Sockets
• SO: Linux and Windows 7/10
• FPGAs
• Quartus Prime
• PCB Debug
• Git
• TCP/IP
• SPI/I2C
• Preferred Technical Expertise
• GCC toolchain
• QT
• GUIs
• PCB design
• Cadence Virtuoso / Innovus
• Language requirements
English: fluid speaking, reading and writing
CONTACT AND DEADLINE
Applicants must send an email to Dr. Joan Mauricio (jmauricio@fqa.ub.edu) with the Curriculum
Vitae (CV) in free format plus a motivation letter. The selection process, according to the number
of applicants, will consist of curricular pre-selection.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
“La Caixa” Foundation is launching a postdoctoral fellowships program in which candidates will be able to come to an institution or center evaluated as excellent (distinguished with either the Maria de Maeztu award, the Severo Ochoa award, or an Investigación Sanitaria Carlos III institute) among them, the Institute of Cosmos Sciences.
Description of our Institute:
The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is an interdisciplinary center devoted to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. In addition, the Institute has a strong technology program through its participation in international collaborations in observational astronomy and experimental particle physics.
The ICCUB was awarded the Maria de Maeztu distinction which recognizes our leadership and research impact. Our main lines of research, as well as the associated faculty members, can be found here: http://icc.ub.edu/
Description of the fellowship:
Researchers in the Junior Leader “la Caixa” program will have a three-year contract in accordance with employment legislation in force in Spain, pursuant to provisions regarding occupational health and safety and social security, with access to suitable resources, equipment and facilities.
The incorporation date will be between April 1 to September 30, 2020.
Salary: please refer to this document.
Requirements for candidates:
Researchers of any nationality are eligible for the Junior Leader program. In order to be accepted, candidates must meet the following requirements:
·Experience: They should have earned their doctoral degree two to seven years prior to the deadline for applications. The date of the doctoral thesis defense will be understood to be the date when the doctoral degree was obtained.
·Geographic mobility: Candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the call deadline. Short stays such as holidays will not be taken into account.
For more information about the call please refer tothis document.
Applications:
All applications must be completed online in this link
However, we ask interested candidates to let us know of their interest directly by contacting the faculty member whose research is closest to theirs.
The ICCUB is concerned about the under representation of women in the fields of sciences of the cosmos, and therefore strongly encourages young women to apply.
The research activity will be developed in collaboration with one of the ICCUB research groups, and will be finished with a presentation and defense of a Master Thesis.