The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 70 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.

As part of the University of Barcelona, it is a recipient of the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research (HRS4R) Award, which recognises, among other achievements, respect for equal opportunities and the capacity to attract talent in a positive working environment that promotes the pursuit of successful research careers. The ICCUB respects the principles of open, transparent, merit-based selection.

The ICCUB is located in Barcelona, considered the 8th World's Best Cities 2021: one with near-perfect weather year-round, miles and miles of beaches, iconic parks, striking architecture and colourful neighbourhoods that march to their own beat—artistic, sophisticated, bohemian. Moreover, it is a pole of attraction for the technology sector, a top choice to establish a company in this sector, and it hosts some of the world's major technological events, such as the Mobile World Congress and the Smart City Expo. In addition, Barcelona and its metropolitan area is a leading destination on the map of global technological ecosystems and has infrastructures such as science parks, universities and the 22@ district.

PhD Fellowship in Studying close interactions in binary stars in the Milky Way

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 recent discovery of gravitational waves (GW) has shown that most of the detected merging compact binaries were black holes more massive than 20 solar masses. This finding has opened new questions about the progenitors and formation channels for these systems. One of the possible ways to create such compact massive binaries is through the so-called common envelope evolution, when both stars end up sharing a common gaseous layer called the common envelope. The gravitational drag of the stars inside this envelope contributes to its ejection at the expense of tightening the binary. This ejection can be observed as a bright transient source (similar to a supernova) appearing in the night sky. Eventually, the binary components can explode as supernovae, resulting in high-energy phenomena and ultimately becoming GW sources.

This project aims to use data from the Gaia ESA mission to find and characterize binary systems in our galaxy undergoing common envelope evolution, and to explore how the envelope is ejected using multi-wavelength observations of their outbursts. On the one hand, detailed follow-up campaigns will be carried out to determine the physical properties of the systems. On the other hand, comparison of the number of these systems with predictions from binary populations will provide constraints on the most relevant physics for the phases of unstable mass transfer, and envelope ejection.

The student will join the expanding research group led by Dr. Nadejda Blagorodnova, expert in astrophysical transient events, and will become a member of international collaborations associated to time-domain surveys (led by the USA and The Netherlands) and the GW LIGO-Virgo collaboration. In the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, the student will interact with experts on stellar populations with the Gaia ESA mission, and the members of the gravity and GW group in the interpretation of the results of the observations.Job position description

One of the key aspects for the job position will be to establish a strong knowledge about time-domain surveys, which is a very dynamic field of research that is expected to grow within the next few years. The imminent start of operations of new large time-domain surveys will offer endless opportunities to discover new transient and variable phenomena.

The identification of suitable common envelope candidate systems will be achieved with the combined analysis of large datasets containing astrophysical properties of the stellar sources (provided by the Gaia ESA catalogues) and their time evolution, which will be obtained from optical and near-infrared time-domain survey catalogues. The student will carry out the analysis of these datasets using distributed parallel computing resources, and employ machine learning techniques to train the algorithms which will allow us to identify past events, and predict the ones that may occur soon. In addition, the student will also learn photometric and spectroscopic observational techniques in optical and near-infrared wavelengths, which will allow him/her to complement the catalogue data with new observations, shedding light on the physical processes involved in common envelope evolution and its role for the creation of GW sources.

To this end, the student will also broaden the knowledge on stellar binary evolution to interpret the nature and characteristics of the observed systems. Close collaboration with experts in the theory of binary evolution and common envelope will provide further training opportunities in this field. The combined expertise in observational techniques, analysis of large time-domain data, and stellar evolution will put the candidate in an excellent position to further pursue a research career.

More information:

Group leader

Dr. Nadejda Blagorodnova Mujortova
nblago@fqa.ub.edu

Research product / Research group

Web site containing the bio of the PI and the description of the broader project scope

https://nblago.github.io/

Gaia ESA project. The student will be working with the latest catalogue, which contains astrophysical data on nearly two billion sources

https://sci.esa.int/web/gaia

BlackGEM time domain survey. The student will become part of the collaboration, and will have privileged access to the data

https://astro.ru.nl/blackgem/

Zwicky Transient Facility time-domain survey. The data from this survey (operating since 2018) will be used in the analysis of the time evolution and discovery of systems

https://www.ztf.caltech.edu/

Employment conditions

The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:

- An annual payment of €35,800 to the institution to cover the Fellow’s contract, who will receive a gross annual income around €28.000. This amount might vary if there are modifications in the legal framework.

- €3,500 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.

The ”la Caixa” Foundation will award a prize of €7,500 (subject to taxes), which will be paid to the fellows who deposit their thesis within 6 months after the third year of their fellowship has ended.

The tuition fees to the official doctoral programme

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.

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.

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.

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.

As part of the University of Barcelona, the ICCUB is a recipient of the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research (HRS4R) Award, which recognises, among other achievements, respect for equal opportunities and the capacity to attract talent in a positive working environment that promotes the pursuit of successful research careers. The ICCUB respects the principles of open, transparent, merit-based selection. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in 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 or be in a position to apply for one.
Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enroll in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

The host university will verify, upon starting the admission process to the doctoral programme, that the studies taken up by the selected candidates make them eligible to enroll in an official doctoral programme in accordance with the regulations in force in Spain or Portugal. Should they be found not eligible after verification, the fellowship will be withdrawn.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. 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 January 25th 2023 at 2pm.

Selection process:

The process is comprised of three phases:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Remote evaluation (shortlisting): an evaluation panel will review the applications and those that receive the highest scores will pass to the next stage.
Personal interviews: shortlisted candidates are invited to a remotely interview before a multidisciplinary committee on May 23, 35 and 25 2023.

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.

Contact: fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 25/01/2023 CLOSED

PhD Fellowship in Binary black hole mergers from globular clusters

Research Project:

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new window on our Universe. The vast majority of the GW detections by the LIGO-Virgo interferometers are from binary black holes (BBHs). 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 massive stars, or in dynamical interactions in dense stellar systems such as globular clusters (GCs).

This project aims to understand the contribution of dynamically formed BBH mergers. Understanding this is of vital importance to understand the nature of BBHs, but it is challenging because the BBH properties and merger rate in this dynamical channel depend sensitively on the unknown initial properties of GCs that formed between now and more than 10 Gyr ago. You will constrain the contribution of the dynamical channel by comparing population models of GC evolution and BBH mergers to observations of Milky Way GCs and use the fact that BHs in GCs affect their observable properties and the stellar escape rate from GCs. You will exploit data from the Gaia space telescope and related surveys such as WEAVE to chart the demographics of BHs in both dissolved and surviving GCs.

The ICCUB is a full member of the Virgo collaboration and actively involved in Gaia (PI Carme Jordi) and the WEAVE survey, giving you access new data and analysis allowing you to work on the forefront of GW sand Milky Way research. You will join the enthusiastic Virgo and Gaia research groups of the ICCUB who organize weekly science meetings, journal clubs and seminars. You will also benefit from scientific collaborations with various ICCUB staff in the areas of star formation (Paolo Padoan), galaxy formation (Chervin Laporte, Teresa Antoja), cosmology (Licia Verde, Jordi Miralda) and black holes (Cristiano Germani, Jaume Garriga). Finally, you will be part of international collaborations with groups in Europe, Canada and the US.

Job position description

In this PhD project you will model the evolution of globular cluster (GC) populations in different galaxy types, with a particular focus on the Milky Way. You will make predictions for the present-day structure and kinematics of GCs, their distribution in the galaxy, and the distribution of the escaped stars in the galaxy. You will compare these to observations of GCs and field stars that escaped from surviving and dissolved GCs. All of these observables are sensitive to the details of the black hole (BH) populations in the GCs, so astronomical observations can be used to constrain BH dynamics.

The research group at ICCUB - led by Prof Mark Gieles - developed an ultra-fast code for simulating the evolution of GCs and their BH populations, enabling the exploration of the parameter space of initial properties of GCs. This will be used to model GC populations and chart the demographics BHs in GCs, now and in the past.

These population models are then combined with fast models for the evolution of the BBHs within the GCs to forward model the rate and properties of BBH mergers. The results will provide insights in both the evolutionary history of each GC and its BH population as well as the resulting BBH merger rates, constrained by observational data. The results for the Milky Way GC population are then extrapolated to compute the BBH merger rate of all GCs in the Universe across cosmic time. The predictions include merger rate as a function of redshift, BH masses, mass ratios and the distribution of orbital eccentricities. These will be compared to gravitational wave (GW) data of BBH mergers in the ongoing LIGO-Virgo observing runs, to provide tight constraints on the fraction of all BBH mergers that originate from the dynamical channel. This project also sheds light on the parameters describing the initial conditions of GCs, thereby opening to door to use GWs to constrain star and cluster formation in the early Universe.

More information:

Group leader

Prof. Mark Gieles
mgieles@icc.ub.edu

Research product / Research group

Pi description

https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/mark-gieles-296018

ICCUB participation in Virgo

http://icc.ub.edu/research/key_projects/virgo

ICCUB participation in Gaia

http://icc.ub.edu/research/key_projects/gaia

paper presenting a model for binary black hole mergers from globular clusters and a comparison to the latest catalogue of gravitational wave sources.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020PhRvD.102l3016A/abstract

recent paper on the inference of a large black hole population in a Galactic globular cluster from its tidal tails

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021NatAs...5..957G/abstract

recent paper demonstrating how the mass of a black hole population can be inferred from observations of the globular cluster 47 Tuc.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.491..113H/abstract

Employment conditions

The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:

- €3,500 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.

The tuition fees to the official doctoral programme

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.

For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.

Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

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 or be in a position to apply for one.
Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enroll in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. 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 January 25th 2023 at 2pm.

Selection process:

The process is comprised of three phases:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Remote evaluation (shortlisting): an evaluation panel will review the applications and those that receive the highest scores will pass to the next stage.
Personal interviews: shortlisted candidates are invited to a remotely interview before a multidisciplinary committee on May 23, 35 and 25 2023.

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.

Contact: fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 25/01/2023 CLOSED

PhD Fellowship in Modeling gravitational waves for the future generations

Research Project:

Our ability to detect gravitational waves (GW) is reshaping the way we perceive the Universe. This was made possible by a planet-scale multidisciplinary effort, combining experimental devices of unprecedented precision, and state of the art modeling and data analysis techniques.

On the modeling front, a crucial aspect is the fast generation of accurate enough templates for the expected signals. In turn, this relies on the calibration provided by Numerical Relativity, i.e. the fully fledged simulation of Einstein's equations.

While the current modeling techniques are to some extent sufficient for the current detectors, the third generation of detectors (LISA, Einstein Telescope) increased sensitivity will pose much stronger accuracy requirements on the approximate models used for data analysis.

The ICCUB is a full member of the Virgo and soon to join the Einstein Telescope collaboration, so you will work on the forefront of GW research. You will join the enthusiastic Virgo and Einstein Telescope research groups of the ICCUB who organize weekly science meetings, journal clubs and seminars. You will also benefit from scientific interactions with various ICCUB staff in the areas of Cosmology (Licia Verde, Jordi Miralda), Black Holes (Cristiano Germani, Jaume Garriga) and High Energy Physics (Roberto Emparan, David Mateos, Tomeu Fiol), star formation (Paolo Padoan), and galaxy formation (Chervin Laporte, Teresa Antoja). Finally, you will also be involved in international collaborations with groups in Italy, Germany and the UK.

Job position description

This project seeks to upgrade the accuracy and generality of the current state of the art analytic models for waveform generation. To this end, the student will perform Numerical Relativity simulations of black hole binaries, focusing on precessing, eccentric binaries, which are currently poorly described by analytic models. Moreover, as a member of the Virgo and Einstein Telescope collaborations, the student will liaise with data analysts across the board, in order to understand the current capabilities of the models and future requirements.

The desired outcome of the project is the improvement of one or more approximate models of black hole binary coalescence in a way compatible with the new generation detectors expected sensitivity.

Essential skills: basic theoretical aspects of General Relativity, such as black hole geometries, physics of gravitational waves; basic programming: Python

Desirable skills: advanced theoretical aspects of General Relativity, such as ADM decomposition, conserved quantities in gravity; Machine Learning; advanced programming: Python, C

More information:

Group leader

Dr. Tomás Andrade
tandrade@icc.ub.edu

Research product / Research group

Website of Tomas Andrade

https://icc.ub.edu/people/486

website of the Virgo interferometer

https://www.virgo-gw.eu

Website of the Einstein Telescope project

https://www.et-gw.eu

ICCUB participation in Virgo

http://icc.ub.edu/research/key_projects/virgo

Employment conditions

The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:

- €3,500 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.

The tuition fees to the official doctoral programme

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.

For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.

Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

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 or be in a position to apply for one.
Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enroll in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. 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 January 25th 2023 at 2pm.

Selection process:

The process is comprised of three phases:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Remote evaluation (shortlisting): an evaluation panel will review the applications and those that receive the highest scores will pass to the next stage.
Personal interviews: shortlisted candidates are invited to a remotely interview before a multidisciplinary committee on May 23, 35 and 25 2023.

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.

Contact: fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 25/01/2023 CLOSED

PhD Fellowship in Holography in the Gravitational Wave Era

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for PhD positions.  ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for PhD positions.

The successful candidates will work with Profs Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Raul Jimenez, David Mateos and other members of the ICCUB on applications of holography to cosmology and astrophysics, with a focus on gravitational waves. Appointments are likely to begin in the Summer or Fall of 2023.

The official call is expected to open soon and we are seeking to make a preselection of potential candidates. Thus, interested candidates should apply here as soon as possible.

In parallel, we also encourage candidates to apply independently to the PhD INPhINIT fellowships funded by “La Caixa”. In this case the selection will be done directly by “La Caixa”, but the successful candidates will work at the ICCUB in the same conditions as above. More information about the INPhINIT fellowships can be found below:

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Research Project:

Holography (a.k.a. AdS/CFT or gauge/gravity correspondence) relates the quantum-mechanical dynamics of a strongly coupled, four-dimensional gauge theory to that of classical gravity in a five-dimensional anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. The power of this correspondence is that it allows the use of classical gravity in 5D to tackle otherwise intractable problems on the gauge theory side.

In many applications of holography the metric where the gauge theory lives is taken to be non-dynamical. For example, this metric is flat in the holographic description of the quark-gluon plasma.

This framework is insufficient if the 4D metric is dynamical. This limits potential applications of holography to phase transitions in the early Universe, neutron star mergers, cosmological singularities, etc.

Following our pioneering work [1], we will extend the holographic framework to describe a strongly interacting 4D gauge theory coupled to 4D dynamical gravity. We will then apply it to the study of the problems mentioned above. A primary outcome will be the spectrum of gravitational waves (GW) produced in these processes, which could be experimentally measured at future GW detectors.

The student will join the group led by Profs Casalderrey and Mateos, which is part of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB). We are world leaders in applications of holography and have co-authored a standard reference in the field [2]. Mateos managed a 1.4M€ European ERC grant in 2012-2017 and is now the PI of one of the six priority lines of the ICCUB’s “Maria de Maeztu” distinction for units of excellence. In the last 10 years we have trained 17 students and postdocs, many of whom now hold postdoctoral or faculty positions.

[1] D. Mateos, J. Casalderrey et al, ``Holographic Evolution with Dynamical Boundary Gravity,'' JHEP 03 (2022), 137.

[2] Casalderrey, D. Mateos et al, “Gauge/String Duality, Hot QCD, and Heavy Ion Collisions”, Cambridge University Press (2014).

Job position description

The successful candidate will be a PhD student at the ICCUB. Our institute is uniquely positioned worldwide for this research because of our expertise in all the fields involved. The work will be highly interdisciplinary, ranging from theoretical analysis based on holography to running numerical relativity codes on high-performance supercomputers.

The student will interact with Profs Casalderrey and Mateos on an almost-daily basis. In addition, as part of his training, he/she will attend some of the many activities at the ICCUB, including:

• Weekly seminars by visiting external researchers.

• Weekly seminars by the group's researchers.

• Colloquia at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB).

• Weekly Journal Clubs on “Gravity and Strings” and on “Cosmology”.

All these activities, especially the last one, have a high formative value. In addition, the student will attend advanced lessons and courses taught at the ICCUB, as long as these courses are relevant to the subject of the project. In particular, courses are planned on holography and probably on superstrings and supersymmetry, taught both by members of the group and by internationally recognized expert visitors.

More information:

Prof. David Mateos and Jorge Casalderrey-Solana
dmateos@fqa.ub.edu

Research product / Research group

Website of the “Quantum Field Theory and String Theory” research area at the ICCUB

https://icc.ub.edu/research/quantum-field-theory-and-string-theory

Website of the “Gravitation and Cosmology” research area at the ICCUB

https://icc.ub.edu/research/gravitation-and-cosmology

Website of the “Particle Physics Phenomenology” research area at the ICCUB

https://icc.ub.edu/research/particle-physics-phenomenology

Website of the “Gravitational Waves” research area at the ICCUB

https://icc.ub.edu/research/gravitational-waves

David Mateos’ website

https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/David-Mateos-465

Employment conditions

The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:

- €3,500 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.

The tuition fees to the official doctoral programme

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.

For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.

Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

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 or be in a position to apply for one.
Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enroll in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. 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 January 25th 2023 at 2pm.

Selection process:

The process is comprised of three phases:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Remote evaluation (shortlisting): an evaluation panel will review the applications and those that receive the highest scores will pass to the next stage.
Personal interviews: shortlisted candidates are invited to a remotely interview before a multidisciplinary committee on May 23, 35 and 25 2023.

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.

Contact: fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 24/01/2023 CLOSED

INPhINIT Incoming PhD Fellowships at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

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Employment conditions

The ”la Caixa” Foundation will sign an agreement with the host institution, which will receive the fellowship payments directly:

An annual payment of €35,800 to the institution to cover the Fellow’s contract, who will receive a minimum annual gross salary of €25.000. This amount might vary if there are modifications in the legal framework.
€3,500 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.
The tuition fees to the official doctoral programme

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.

For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.

Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

Requirements

In order to be accepted, candidates must meet the following eligibility requirements:

Experience: candidates must not have carried out more than four years of research activity before the closing date of the call.
Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enroll in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. For more information on the application procedure, please refer to this document.

Deadline: Please submit your applications by January 24th 2024 at 2 pm.

Selection process:

The process is comprised of three phases:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Remote evaluation (shortlisting): an evaluation panel will review the applications and those that receive the highest scores will pass to the next stage.
Personal interviews: shortlisted candidates are invited to a remotely interview before a multidisciplinary committee on May 27, 28 and 29 2024.

The rating criteria that govern the selection process can be found in the Selection process guidelines section of the ”la Caixa” Fellowship Programme website.

For more information on the selection process, please refer to this document.

Funding: This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 20/12/2022 CLOSED

Postdoctoral position with the Milky Way-Gaia group at the ICCUB

Job description: ...

Job description:

The Milky Way-Gaia group offers a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) of the University of Barcelona in the project Diagnosis of the Milky Way's Disc funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación granted to Dr. Teresa Antoja (https://teresaantoja.fqa.ub.edu/home). The postdoc will be part of the Gaia-UB group (https://gaia.ub.edu/) with about 25 scientists and engineers of the Gaia mission. The research of this project focuses on the dynamics of the Milky Way disc through modelling of the measurements by Gaia and WEAVE. Candidates should hold a PhD in physics, astronomy, or related fields, at the starting date of the contract. They are expected to have expertise in at least one of the topics of chemical evolution of the Galaxy, galactic dynamics, Milky Way, galaxy formation and evolution, stellar spectroscopy, galaxy simulations, analysis of large (Milky Way) surveys.

Employment conditions:

The position is offered for two years, and it is expected to begin no later than September 2023. Gross annual salary is about 33.000€ per year, depending on the experience. This includes social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.

Application procedure and deadline:

Please fill out this form with your information and the information of two referees who will provide recommendation letters for you.

Once you submit this form you will receive an email with instructions on how to upload your application materials:

- Curriculum Vitae

- List of publications

- Cover letter including research experience and interests (2 pages max).

The referees will receive an email with instructions on how to upload their letters.

Please note that your application will not be complete until you and at least one referee have uploaded the corresponding documents.

The application deadline is December 20th.

Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallarés (secretaria@icc.ub.edu)

For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact Teresa Antoja tantoja@fqa.ub.edu

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is a research institute of the University of Barcelona. It is an interdisciplinary center 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.

As part of the University of Barcelona, the ICCUB is a recipient of the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research (HRS4R) Award, which recognises, among other achievements, respect for equal opportunities and the capacity to attract talent in a positive working environment that promotes the pursuit of successful research careers. The ICCUB respects the principles of open, transparent, merit-based selection. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.

The ICCUB is located in Barcelona, considered the 8th World's Best Cities 2021: one with near-perfect weather year-round, miles and miles of beaches, iconic parks, striking architecture and colorful neighborhoods that march to their own beat—artistic, sophisticated, bohemian. Moreover, it is a pole of attraction for the technology sector, a top choice to establish a company in this sector, and it hosts some of the world's major technological events, such as the Mobile World Congress and the Smart City Expo. In addition, Barcelona and its metropolitan area is a leading destination on the map of global technological ecosystems and has infrastructures such as science parks, universities and the 22@ district.

Contract funded by Project PID2021-125451NA-I00 financed by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ FEDER, UE

Deadline: 22/11/2022 CLOSED

Engineer working on the PLATO mission

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking an Engineer to join the Software and Data ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) is seeking an Engineer to join the Software and Data Engineering department of the Technological Unit of the ICCUB.

The ICCUB (https://icc.ub.edu) is an interdisciplinary center devoted to fundamental research in the fields of cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics. The ICCUB Technology Unit focuses on inventing and building the ambitious and innovative detection instruments of the future. This involves collaborating on large projects related to particle physics experiments, space missions, astronomical facilities and more.

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 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:

Currently, the unit is composed by a team of around 20 engineers and researchers divided in two departments: Electronics & Instrumentation, and Software & Data Engineering. The Software and Data Engineering division 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 levels in the PLATO mission (https://sci.esa.int/web/plato). PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. Its objective is to find and study a large number of extrasolar planetary systems, with emphasis on the properties of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone around solar-like stars. PLATO has also been designed to investigate seismic activity in stars, enabling the precise characterisation of the planet host star, including its age.

We search for a highly motivated Engineer with experience in collaborative software design and development for high-efficiency data handling and communication systems.

To know more about the research interests of the ICCUB, please follow this link.

Taks:

The main tasks are to design and implement the repository, interfaces and communication tools for the optimal ground-based follow-up of exoplanet candidates of the PLATO mission. It will involve regular meetings and teleconferences with experts from other European centres working on PLATO.

Requirements:

Knowledge of:
- Programming, including C/C++, Python and Java
- Databases (e.g. MySQL or Postgres) and SQL language
- Web technologies (e.g. REST API, JavaScript and derivatives)
- Linux and Shell scripting environments
- Collaborative development (e.g. Git)
- Basic knowledge on astronomical concepts, especially in the operation of terrestrial observatories, is encouraged.
Experience in international projects, especially in space missions
Degree in computer engineering, in engineering on communication technologies and services, in mathematics, or in physics.
MECR intermediate English level B1 certificate.

Employment conditions:

We offer a full-time contract for a period of six months with anticipated renewal for up to two additional years; this is contingent upon the availability of funds and job performance.

Gross monthly salary will be around 2.200€ (14 payments/year) with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.

Position is expected to begin in two months, 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 call or email secretaria@icc.ub.edu with their request.

Application procedure:

Documents that will be required for your application are:

Curriculum Vitae
Motivation letter

All applications must be submitted through this link. It will be appreciated if you send a copy to secretaria@icc.ub.edu

Deadline:

Applications must be submitted before November 22nd.

Funding:

This study was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU(PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat de Catalunya

Deadline: 07/10/2022 CLOSED

Postdoctoral Junior Leader Fellowships, Incoming Programme

...

“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. Moreover, the institute is an interdisciplinary centre with more than 70 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers (55% international) and PhD students (30%international) offering an international and multicultural environment.

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/research/research_areas

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.

Junior Leader Fellowships Programme Description:

The Postdoctoral Junior Leader fellowships programme is aimed at hiring excellent researchers, of any nationality, who wish to continue their research career in Spain or Portugal in the STEM area (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). 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 programme:

Postdoctorate Junior Leader – Incoming: 25 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.

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

Deadline: 01/09/2022 CLOSED

Gender Officer at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

Objective: The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is looking for a technician specializing in gender policies in the field of scientific research. ...

Objective: The Institute of Cosmos Sciences is looking for a technician specializing in gender policies in the field of scientific research. He/She will join the ICCUB and will extend his/her work to the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB and the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the UB.

The main tasks to be developed are:

Diagnosis and implementation of the equality plan
Writing good practices documents
Management of a database of information on gender issues in research
Supervision of the gender perspective in recruitment processes
Inclusion of the gender dimension in applications of research projects
Design and implementation of measures to prevent sexual harassment
Organization of awareness campaigns (11F, 8M)
Support and guidance for researchers on gender issues

Contracts are signed for two full years and must come into effect right before January 2023. The gross salary will be around 2500€ per month.

Requirements:

English Certificate C1
Bachelor's or master's degree

Training in gender equality policies (or similar), preferably with experience in academic and research settings, will be an asset.

The people who are hired must be young people aged 16 or over and who have not yet turned 30, who are unemployed and registered as jobseekers with the public employment service of Catalonia at the time the contractual relationship begins, and not have carried out any type of activity at the UB in the 6 months prior to signing the contract.

Submission of the application:

Please send an email to secretaria@icc.ub.edu before September 1st with your CV and a letter of interest.

Working at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

As part of the University of Barcelona, the ICCUB is a recipient of the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research (HRS4R) Award, which recognises, among other achievements, respect for equal opportunities and the capacity to attract talent in a positive working environment that promotes the pursuit of successful research careers. The ICCUB respects the principles of open, transparent, merit-based selection. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply. For additional information please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.

The ICCUB is located in Barcelona, considered the 8th World's Best Cities 2021: one with near-perfect weather year-round, miles and miles of beaches, iconic parks, striking architecture and colorful neighborhoods that march to their own beat—artistic, sophisticated, bohemian. Moreover, it is a pole of attraction for the technology sector, a top choice to establish a company in this sector, and it hosts some of the world's major technological events, such as the Mobile World Congress and the Smart City Expo. In addition, Barcelona and its metropolitan area is a leading destination on the map of global technological ecosystems and has infrastructures such as science parks, universities and the 22@ district.

Deadline: 06/07/2022 CLOSED

Margarita Salas grants for the training of young doctoral graduates

Objective: The purpose of the call for applications is to train young doctoral graduates by subsidizing two-year training periods carried out over a continuous period at a public university in Spain, at a university or research ...

Objective: The purpose of the call for applications is to train young doctoral graduates by subsidizing two-year training periods carried out over a continuous period at a public university in Spain, at a university or research centre outside Spain, or with a Spanish public research body (these may not be the centres at which candidates completed their predoctoral training and obtained their doctoral degrees).

If the stay is carried out at a university or research centre outside Spain or with a Spanish públic research body, the second year must be carried out at the University of Barcelona or at another public university in Spain, as chosen by the candidate, which may be the university from which the candidate obtained their doctoral degree.

Contracts are signed for two full years. Contracts must come into effect between November 1, 2022. This date cannot be extended, except in justified cases of force majeure, at the discretion of the contracting body.

If the first year of the contract is carried out at a university or research centre outside Spain or with a Spanish public research body, the second year must be carried out at the University of Barcelona or at another public university in Spain, as chosen by the candidate, which may be the university from which the candidate obtained their doctoral degree.

Conditions:

candidate obtained their doctoral degree.In addition, a single payment of 3,500 gross euros is made as a transfer fee.

The value of the Margarita Salas Grant is:
• 3,500 euros gross per month for stays outside Spain
• 2,800 euros gross per month for stays in Spain and, in all cases, for the final year of the grant period
The amounts are inclusive of the social security withholding corresponding to the contract as well as all other associated salary items. .Grant recipients will not receive three-yearly salary increments or be entitled to any other form of salary adjustment for the duration of the contract.

Once the corresponding employer contribution has been deducted, the gross remuneration that the successful bidders will receive will be:
• 2,663,62 euros monthly gross for stays abroad
• 2,130,90 euros monthly gross for stays in Spain

In addition, a single gross payment of 3,500 euros is made to cover relocation costs, which may be subject to the corresponding social security withholding. Once the corresponding employer contribution has been deducted, the gross amount that the successful bidders will receive for transfer expenses will be 2,663,62 euros gross.

Requirements:

- You must have obtained your doctoral degree from the University of Barcelona no more than two years before the date on which the period for submission of requests closes (July 6th). This period is extended when certain circumstances arise, please consult the rules of the call.

- Candidates must request a stay over a continuous period of two years if they choose a públic university in Spain or for the first year of the grant period if they wish to complete the stay at a university or research centre outside Spain or with a Spanish public research body. The stay may not be carried out at the institution where the candidate completed their predoctoral training and obtained the doctoral degree.

- If the first year of the stay is carried out at a university or research centre outside Spain or with a Spanish public research body, the second year must be carried out at the University of Barcelona or at another public university in Spain, as chosen by the candidate, which may be the university from which the candidate obtained their doctoral degree.

-Candidates who obtained their doctoral degree at a private university in Spain or Spanish candidates who obtained their doctoral degree at a university of research centre outside Spain and who wish to complete part or all of their stay at the UB may also submit their request to the UB, provided that they meet the other general requirements.

Documentation:

You must submit one of each document, in PDF format. The total size must not exceed 10 MB.

1. Abbreviated CV, using the FECYT template

2. Doctoral certificate (not required if the doctoral degree was issued by the UB)

3. Scientific-technical trajectory of the host group at Centre 1.
· Scientific-technical trajectory of the host group at Centre 2, if applicable. · Report justifying the projected impact of the stay(s) on the candidate's teaching and research career. (Annex 2)

4. Confirmation of acceptance issued by the host centre (in Spain or abroad, as appropriate) (Annex 3)

5. Confirmation of acceptance issued by centre 2 (Spain) if applicable, if it is not the centre to which the request is submitted (Annex 4)

6. Certification of degree of disability, if applicable

7. Supporting documentation to extend the period to two years from the date of award of the doctoral degree certificate (maximum 5 documents and 10MB in total)

Submission of the application:

Through this website before July 6th. If you have not used this website before, you have to registre here.

You can also check the frequently asked qüestions.

All the information regarding this call can be found here.

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Deadline: 15/06/2022 CLOSED

PhD student in time-domain astronomy, with specialization on large transient surveys and luminous red novae

We invite applications for a 4-year Ph.D. position in time-domain astronomy at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), Spain. The Ph.D student will join the research group led by Dr. ...

The group research will focus on the study of the common envelope phase in massive binaries with observations of luminous red novae (LRNe) transients, their progenitor systems, and their precursor emission. The student will work with the large transient surveys of BlackGEM, LSST, and ZTF, and lead the multi-wavelength observational study of LRNe, and the modelling of their massive binary progenitors using detailed evolutionary codes. As a member of the research group, the student will have privileged access to data and observational resources from the BlackGEM survey partnership, and will be involved in the large international collaborations of Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration (LSST), and ZTF.

An MSc in astronomy or related field is required. Positions can start as early as October 2022, but no later than January 2023. The remuneration includes full benefits, and includes a generous research and travel allowance.

The application should be in English, and must include the following:

CV
A motivation letter where you introduce yourself, describe your motivation for applying, your previous experience of relevance for the position (e.g. education, thesis work or other research activities), and your research interest and future goals (max 3 pages).

The applications need to be sent by June 15th, 2022 to cet3po@gmail.com. The review process will start immediately, but applications will be considered until the position is filled.

We regard diversity as an asset within a team, and welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

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.

Deadline: 01/06/2022 CLOSED

Postdoctoral position in time-domain astronomy, with specialization on large transient surveys and luminous red novae

We are offering a 3-year post-doctoral position in time-domain astronomy at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), Spain. The postdoctoral researcher will join the research group led by Dr. ...

The group research will focus on the study of the common envelope phase in massive binaries with observations of luminous red novae (LRNe) transients, their progenitors, and their precursor emission. As a member of the research group, the postdoctoral researcher will have privileged access to data and observational resources from the BlackGEM survey partnership, and will be involved in the large international collaborations of Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration (LSST), and ZTF.

The first year of the position will primarily focus on: 1) identification of likely LRNe progenitors in nearby galaxies, and 2) development and optimization of selection strategies for the early detection of LRNe and their precursors from alerts issued by LSST, BlackGEM and ZTF transient surveys. Subsequent research will focus on the coordinated follow-up of LRNe and other astrophysical transients (depending on the interests of the candidate), and the observational multi-wavelength study exploiting the early scientific results of the surveys. The successful candidate will be encouraged to take part in the supervision of master students and/or PhD students.

Applicants must have a PhD in Physics, Astrophysics or related fields, or be on track to obtain it by the time the contract starts. Previous experience in observational astronomy, computational astronomy, astrostatistics, or large transient surveys would be appreciated. Positions can start as early as October 2022, but no later than January 2023. Gross annual salary will be in the range of 40 to 46 k€, depending on experience, with included social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children. A generous research and travel allowance is also provided.

Applications should be in English, and must include the following:

CV
Publication list
Statement of research interests (max 3 pages)
Two letters of reference. These should be sent directly to cet3po@gmail.com
email subject*

CET3PO CODI RN002256250422

The review process will start immediately, but applications will be considered until the position is filled.

We regard diversity as an asset within a team, and welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Acronym*

CET-3PO

Project title*

Common Envelope Transients – Progenitors, Precursors, and Properties of their Outbursts

IP*

Nadejda Blagorodnova Mujortova

Department*

Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics

Gross salary per year*

40 – 46 k€

Additional information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/776933

Deadline: 01/06/2022 CLOSED

Open positions as research engineers - post-doc on microelectronics design

The technology unit of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona ( ...

The technology unit of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) opens several positions in microelectronics design.

You will be involved in the R&D of new ground and space instruments for some of the scientific key international projects, among others: LHCb detector at CERN, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory and the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD).

The ICCUB technology unit has an important technology transfer activity in medical imaging and single photo sensor readout technology. Some of our developments have been transferred to the industry. You will be also involved in this activity, in coordination with international leading research centers and industries.

Job description

As a research engineer specialized in ASIC design there are several tasks to be performed by you. These are the capacities requested for the candidates (not all of them are required for the candidate)

Analog ASIC design:
- definition of specifications
- circuit design and layout
- floor-planning
- Sign-off
- writing of the technical operating documentation and the simulation and test reports
Digital ASIC design:
- Experience in VHDL or Verilog, and TCL scripting.
- Knowledge of the full design flow: from RTL description, to synthesis, physical implementation, post layout verification and generation of a clean GDS.
- Low-power optimization techniques.
Characterization:
- Experience with lab instrumentation.
- Testing, verification and characterization
- Calibration & characterization
- Participation in test beams
- Participation in radiation qualification campaigns
You will collaborate effectively with all parts of the ASIC design: from definition to conception and until evaluation.
You must be able to work in collaboration with other engineers.
The selected selected candidates will work in the follow-up of the projects, writes the documentation and publications and makes the associated presentations
You will advise the users (physicists and engineers directly attached to the research groups) on the operation of the circuits
You will collaborate with groups from different research centers and industries

Requirements

You must hold an engineering degree or equivalent with additional training and relevant experience oriented towards electronics, computer science and development of ASICs. A PhD in electronics will be positvely considered.
Good knowledge of electronics and excellent knowledge of computer tools for ASIC design (Cadence) and simulation (spectre).
Written and oral proficiency in English to perform all tasks described in both languages

Desired qualifications:

Good knowledge of digital and signoff tools (Cadence Genus & Innovus tools).
A few years of professional experience in ASIC development will be positively considered.

Other competences:

Human capacity for conciliation and negotiation
Ability to manage, plan and anticipate tasks before execution
Ability to organize large international projects
Ability to manage multiple tasks in parallel
Ability to follow, acquire and master the latest high-tech techniques

Employment conditions:

The position is offered for two years, with the possibility of extending them up to a total of three years.

Gross annual salary will be commensurate with your experience and includes social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.

Application procedure and deadline:

Applicants should provide a curriculum vitae, including education, experience, list of publications and presentations, and a letter of motivation including research interests.

Applicants must email Dr. David Gascon Fora (dgason@fqa.ub.edu) or Dr. Sergio Gómez Fernández (sgomez@fqa.ub.edu) with the Curriculum Vitae (CV) in free format and a motivation letter. Application will be open until positions are filled. The eligibility period will be extended under special circumstances such as maternaty or paternity, among others.

Selection process:

The selection process, according to the number of applicants, will consist of curricular pre-selection and an interview.

Curriculum vitae of the applicant. It is important to provide detail concerning tasks, technologies and tools used in previous jobs. Up to 60 points.
An interview. In this interview, you have to demonstrate problem-solving skills and technical skills, up to 40 points.

The applicant must score at least 80 points to pass the assessment.

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Deadline: 12/05/2022 CLOSED

Predoctoral Research Staff in Training at the ICCUB

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for an 18 months predoctoral position in the field of particle physics, very broadly defined.   ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for an 18 months predoctoral position in the field of particle physics, very broadly defined. 

For information about research at the ICC please visit http://icc.ub.edu

Employment conditions

A 18 months contract. The gross salary compensation will be 16.971,64€ per year.

Requirements for the application

a) Be in possession of the title of bachelor, engineer, architect or university graduate of at least 300 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits or a master’s degree, or the equivalent.

b) Not be in possession of a doctoral degree, nor to have defended a doctoral thesis.

c) To be admitted to a full-time doctoral program at the University of Barcelona.

d) In the case of non EU foreigners, to have a work and residence permit before formalizing the corresponding contract, and keep them in force throughout the employment relationship.

e) Not to have a predoctoral contract by means of this modality, nor any other, for a period of more than four years, including the possible extensions, except in the case of people with disabilities, for whom the time can not be over six years. If you have previously enjoyed a pre-doctoral contract for a period of less than four years (or six in the case of disability), the beneficiary may be hired for the remaining time up to the maximum duration provided in the call. If the resulting duration is less than that provided by the contract offered, it is not the contract may be awarded, or a contract may be offered for the duration of resulting contract, provided that this does not prejudice the project.

Technical Requirements

Calculation in a loop of Feynman diagrams and effective sections.
Skills in software such as FeynRules (https://feynrules.irmp.ucl.ac.be/),

FeynArts (http://www.feynarts.de/) and FeynCalc (https://feyncalc.github.io/). Plus it is important to handle Package X code well (https://packagex.hepforge.org/).

Tools for representing scientific graphs, for example in Python or others Languages

Tasks

The candidate's tasks will be multiple and on two fronts:

1. The first front is related to the new measure of the effective section of dark matter and the Xenon1T nucleons. Here it is essential to rethink the future theoretical predictions of direct detection of dark matter.

First implement in both Python and Mathematica a set of

well-motivated dark matter theoretical models both minimal and not with mediators.

For each model, calculate the theoretical predictions through calculations of the Wilson coefficient using codes such as FeynArts / FeynRules for effective section dark matter and nucleons.
Finally, study the phenomenological impact of these contrasting models

and theoretical predictions with experimental data.

2. The second front is related to the detection of resonances in Atlas and CMS root of the Higgs finding. In the search for new physics it is important to study the possible presence of resonances.

It is important to do a detailed study, improving the approximations

previous simplifiers of the vectorial-isovectorial channel.

All relevant terms and conditions for processes 2 to 2 must be calculated in one General HEFT for the first time in the literature.

Deadline and application procedure

The deadline for applications is May 12th, 2022. Candidates should submit their application in this link.

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Deadline: 06/05/2022 CLOSED

Software Engineer for the Gaia Data Processing Center of Barcelona

The Gaia team at the University of Barcelona (IEEC - ICCUB) has contributed since its constitution to the development of the concept and design of the Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Our team is making important contributions with astrometric and photometric data processing for the mission. The team is composed of expert personnel in science, engineering, technology and data analysis for developing and operating software for large data processing, validation and science exploitation. Our team is responsible for the Data Processing Center of Barcelona, which makes use of the BSC computing resources.

EMPLOYMENT TYPE:

We offer:

Work in an European cornerstone research project (ESA).
Possibility to get promoted and to reach other projects.
Full-time contract (reduced-time is also possible).
Flexible schedule.
Gross salary around 20k€ depending on qualifications and experience

FUNCTIONS:

Job responsibilities:

Develop, maintain, document, test, and verify various software projects for space-based engineering software applications.
Debug, troubleshoot, and isolate software issues.
Conduct feasibility, proof of concept, and prototyping activities.
Develop plans, specifications, reports, etc.
Work well both independently and as part of a team.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

We are looking for:

People highly motivated to work in a multidisciplinary environment in an outstanding project at an international level.
Finished degree (or just pending final project) in engineering (preferably software/computing), mathematics, physics or similar.
Good English level (at least B2).
Java and Python programming.
Expertise in Linux, especially shell scripting and system administration.
Working knowledge in SubVersion and Git will be a plus.
Working knowledge in Big data: Hadoop, Spark, Big Data and Data Mining will be a plus.
Working knowledge in Latex will be a plus.
Work experience in software engineering will be a plus.
Written and verbal communications skills
Ability to work independently as well as in a team

CONTACT AND DEADLINE:

Interested persons who meet the established requirements can send the personal curriculum in PDF format, signed as certification, where a brief description of the tasks carried out in the positions previously occupied , to the email address: RecursosHumans@ieec.cat indicating the reference "surnames and name – IEEC/04/2022" in the subject line of the email.

The reception of applications ends on March 4th, 2022

Applications that do not meet the requirements included in the cases provided for, or those which are not processed in accordance with the established procedure will not be considered.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:

Initially, a verification of the requirements of participation and study of the curriculum will be carried out to assess aspects related to the job to be covered. Next, a first selection of candidates will be made based on the curriculum contributed. The shortlisted candidates will be called to a personal interview and/or a test to expand the detailed information in the curriculum and assessed aspects related to professional competences.
Interested persons must have the originals of the certificates accrediting the training and work experience mentioned in the curriculum and must submit them if required.

Deadline: 25/04/2022 CLOSED

PhD student position in galaxy formation

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a PhD studentship in galaxy formation in the new research group of Dr. Chervin Laporte. ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for a PhD studentship in galaxy formation in the new research group of 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, SDSS-V, as well as participating in international collaborative networks in computational astrophysics in the Northern American (US, Canada), Europe and Chile. 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. The candidate should hold a Masters degree in mathematics, physics or astrophysics

The position is expected to begin around 1^st September 2022, but this is negotiable. 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 email: secretaria@icc.ub.edu with the subject: "offer ID: 21252". They should also ask two referees for a letter of reference, who should send it directly to secretaria@icc.ub.edu with the subject: "reference letter: 21252". Applications received by 30th September 2022 will receive full consideration, but the search will continue until the position is filled.

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 and PhD students 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 great food and music.

Deadline: 28/03/2022 CLOSED

Postdoctoral positions at the University of Barcelona

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for three-year postdoctoral positions in the field of Applied Holography, very broadly defined.&nb ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for three-year postdoctoral positions in the field of Applied Holography, very broadly defined.

For information about research at the ICC please visit http://icc.ub.edu

The positions are awarded by the Catalan government (Beatriu de Pinós Programme) but they require the support of an ICC faculty member. Eligible candidates must have obtained their doctoral degree between Jan 1st 2014 and Dec 31st 2019. Appointments will begin no later than April 1st 2023, preferably in the Fall of 2022.

Information about the Beatriu de Pinós Programme

The Beatriu de Pinós Programme (BP2020) aims for the incorporation of postdoctoral researchers to the Catalan system of Science and Technology.

The contract is for 3 years, the gross salary compensation will be €33.258 per year (approximately), as well as €12.000 as complementary allowance for research and training activities.

The Beatriu de Pinós Programme endorses the EU recommendations and good practices towards researchers’ professional development and provides training in transversal skills to improve fellows’ career perspectives. In addition, it boosts open science and outreach activities to communicate research results to society and promote the interest in research.

Requirements

1. Have obtained a doctoral qualification between 1st January 2014 and 31st December 2019. In specific situations such as maternity/paternity leave, sick leave that lasts for more than 6 months, caring for persons in a situation of dependency, or being recognized as having refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention a PhD obtained between 1st January 2012 and 31st December 2019;

2. Have, at the time of joining the receiving institution, a minimum of two (2) years of post-doctoral experience outside Spain. This post-doctoral experience, regardless of the type of affiliation, may have been carried out in different institutions, provided that the total period of post-doctoral stay is at least two (2) years.

3. Not to have resided or worked in Spain for more than 12 months in the last three (3) years prior to the end date of the deadline for submitting applications. In the case of refugee research staff, the mobility rule applies from the date of obtaining official recognition of a refugee in accordance with the 1951 Geneva Convention.

Deadline and application procedure

The deadline for applications is March 28th 2022.

Interested candidates should send a CV to Prof David Mateos at dmateos@fqa.ub.edu as soon as possible. Selected candidates will be contacted before March 28th 2022.

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Deadline: 24/03/2022 CLOSED

Postdoctoral positions at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for three-year postdoctoral positions in the following fields: ...

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC) at the University of Barcelona invites applications for three-year postdoctoral positions in the following fields:

Cosmology and Large Scale Structure
Experimental Particle Physics
Galaxy Structure and Evolution
Gravitation and Cosmology
Gravitational Waves
Hadronic, nuclear and atomic physics
High Energy Astrophysics
Particle Physics Phenomenology
Quantum Filed Theory and String Theory
Quantum Technologies
Star Formation

For information about research at the ICC please visit http://icc.ub.edu/research-areas. Information about our ICC faculty membres: https://icc.ub.edu/people

Information about the Beatiu de Pinós Programme

The Beatriu de Pinós Programme (BP2020) aims for the incorporation of postdoctoral researchers to the Catalan system of Science and Technology.

The contract is for 3 years, the gross salary compensation will be €33.258 per year (approximately), as well as €12.000 as complementary allowance for research and training activities.

Requirements

Deadline and application procedure

The deadline for applications is March 24th 2022.

Interested candidates should send a CV to the contact person according to the research area they are interested in as soon as possible. Selected candidates will be contacted before March 24th 2022.

Contacts:

Cosmology and Large Scale Structure: Licia Verde
Experimental Particle Physics: Eugeni Graugés
Galaxy Structure and Evolution: Carme Jordi
Gravitation and Cosmology: Roberto Emparan
Gravitational Waves: Mark Gieles
Hadronic, nuclear and atomic physics: Àngels Ramos
High Energy Astrophysics: Josep Maria Paredes
Particle Physics Phenomenology: Federico Mescia
Quantum Filed Theory and String Theory: David Mateos
Quantum Technologies: Bruno Julià
Star Formation: Paolo Padoan

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Deadline: 15/03/2022 CLOSED

FPGA engineer

You will join the Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Science of the University of Barcelona. ...

You will join the Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Science of the University of Barcelona. We are currently looking for a highly motivated candidate that will work in the development of firmware and software for high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical imaging projects. You will develop systems for validating, controlling and acquiring data from ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) designed by the UB. This position requires skills in FPGA design techniques. You must be capable of working on several projects simultaneously.

The position is for one year, renewable upon mutual agreement and availability of funds for one more year.

Requirements:

You must hold a Bachelor or Master's in Electronics or Telecommunications, applicants with a Doctorate will also be considered.

Essentials:

Minimum 2 years of experience in VHDL (or Verilog) hardware description language
Knowledge of TCL scripting language
Fluent in English

Following knowledge will be a plus:

C++ and Phyton programming languages
Bus protocols: GPIB, SPI & I2C
Sockets & Threads
Laboratory instrumentation control via SCPI commands
Experience in control and data acquisition systems
Experience in Intel Quartus design tool
PCB design
Writing technical documentation
Reporting progress and issues

Application process:

Applicants must email Dr. Joan Mauricio (jmauricio@fqa.ub.edu) with the Curriculum Vitae (CV) in free format and a motivation letter.

Review of applications will begin March 15th and will continue until the position is filled. The eligibility period will be extended under special circumstances such as maternity or paternity, among others.

Selection process:

The selection process, according to the number of applicants, will consist of curricular pre-selection and an interview.

a) Curriculum vitae of the applicant. It is important to provide detail concerning tasks, technologies and tools used in previous jobs. Up to 60 points.
b) An interview. In this interview, you have to demonstrate problem-solving skills and technical skills, up to 40 points.
The applicant must score at least 80 points to pass the assessment.

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Deadline: 11/02/2022 CLOSED

PREDOCS-UB

The call for the recruitment program for predoctoral researchers at the University of Barcelona (PREDOCS-UB), 2021 will be open from January 17 until February 11, 2022. ...

The call for the recruitment program for predoctoral researchers at the University of Barcelona (PREDOCS-UB), 2021 will be open from January 17 until February 11, 2022.

The aim of this call is to select trainee predoctoral research staff and regulate the procedure for the renewal of these grants, with the aim of promoting research in UB departments and training qualified predoctoral staff in university research and teaching. This University of Barcelona (UB) programme joins other public calls for application for the purpose of strengthening and increasing the prevalence of predoctoral staff at the UB.

Employment conditions

A maximum of a four year contract, subject to an annual assessment. Please read this document for more details.

The gross salary compensation will be 1.188,49€ per month in the first two years, 1.273,38€ per month in the third year and 1.591,73€ per month in the fourth year (these amounts have been calculated in December 2021, and they can change according to the Law). For more information, please refer to this document.

Requirements

Applicants must meet the following requirements prior to the deadline:

The candidate must be enrolled or accepted on a doctoral programme of the UB. Another possibility is that they will be able to be enrolled on the doctoral programme at the time of signing the contract.
Not in possession of a doctoral degree, and they have not defended a doctoral thesis
An average grade of 6.5 or above in the academic transcript, between the bachelor's degree and master's degree
Applicant must be supported by a researcher at the UB, who will be the thesis supervisor.
The thesis supervisor must fulfil the following requirements:
- has an ORCID identifier entered into the GREC CV
- be part of a Catalan research group (SGR) and a competitive ongoing research project

Application Procedure

1. Those interested must fill in the application, attach the corresponding documentation and confirm the submission of the form, which can be accessed through the following website.

In addition, the form published on the Banco Santander platform must be filled in: http://app.becas-santander.com/program/becas-santander-investigacion-convocatoria-predocsub-2021 Students who have applied for the grant but have not completed the Banco Santander form will be excluded from the call. Likewise, those who only fill in the application through Banco Santander will be excluded.

Deadline

Please submit your applications by February 11th 2022. Remember that you must submit your application to Banco Santander's website and the UB's website.

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PREDOCS-UB website

Deadline: 31/01/2022 CLOSED

Firmware or software engineer

The person hired will join the Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Science of the University of Barcelona. ...

The person hired will join the Technological Unit of the Institute of Cosmos Science of the University of Barcelona. We are currently looking for a highly motivated candidate that will work in the development of firmware and software for high-energy physics, astrophysics and medical imaging projects. The candidate will develop systems for validating, controlling and acquiring data from ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) designed by the UB. This position requires skills in FPGA design techniques, low-level programming in C++ and also knowledge in Python programming. The candidate must be capable of working on several projects simultaneously.

The position is for one year, renewable upon mutual agreement and availability of funds for one more year.

Requirements:

The candidate must hold a Bachelor or Master's in Electronics or Telecommunications, applicants with a Doctorate will also be considered.

Essencials:

C++ and Phyton
VHDL or Verilog
TCL scripting language
OS: Linux and Windows
Bus protocols: GPIB, SPI & I2C
Fluent in English

Following knowledge will be a plus:

Sockets & Threads
Development of GUI panels
Laboratory instrumentation control via SCPI commands
Experience in control and data acquisition systems
Intel Quartus design tool
PCB design
Writing technical documentation
Reporting progress and issues

Application process:

Applicants must email Dr. Joan Mauricio (jmauricio@fqa.ub.edu) with the Curriculum Vitae (CV) in free format and a motivation letter.

Selection process:

The selection process, according to the number of applicants, will consist of curricular pre-selection and a candidate interview.

a) Curriculum vitae of the applicant. It is important to provide detail concerning tasks, technologies and tools used in previous jobs. Up to 60 points.
b) Candidate interview. In this interview, the candidate has to demonstrate problem-solving skills and technical skills, up to 40 points.
The applicant must score at least 80 points to pass the assessment.

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

The ICCUB is an interdisciplinary center with more than 60 long term scientists, 20 engineers and 80 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students 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.

Deadline: 27/01/2022 CLOSED

INPhINIT Incoming PhD Fellowships at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences

Employment conditions

The maximum total payment amount will be €122,592, as broken down below:

Three annual payments of €34,800 each to the institution to cover the Fellow’s contract, who will receive a gross annual income of €27.724,67. This amount might vary if there are modifications in the legal framework.
€3,564 per year, as an additional amount for conferences, courses, research stays, consumables, equipment, charges for the use of intellectual property, etc.
The ”la Caixa” Foundation will award a prize of €7,500, which will be paid to the fellows who 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.

For more information on the employment conditions, please refer to this document.

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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 or be in a position to apply for one.

Studies pursued: Applicants must hold a higher education degree that makes them eligible to enrol in a doctoral programme before starting at their host institutions.

The host university will verify, upon starting the admission process to the doctoral programme, that the studies taken up by the selected candidates make them eligible to enrol in an official doctoral programme in accordance with the regulations in force in Spain or Portugal. Should they be found not eligible after verification, the fellowship will be withdrawn.

Under no circumstances may candidates have previously enrolled in the same doctoral studies for which they are applying for the fellowship.

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).

For more information on the candidates requirements, please refer to this document.

Application Procedure

All applications must be submitted online through the following link in English. 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 January 27th 2022.

Selection process

The process is comprised of three parts:

Eligibility screening: all applications received are reviewed to check the accomplishment of the eligibility criteria published in the rules for participation
Pre-selection: each of the eligible application is assessed remotely for at least two evaluators with relevant experience in the same discipline.
Personal interviews: preselected candidates are invited to a personal interview before a multidisciplinary committee.

The rating criteria that govern the selection process can be found in the Application assessment section of the ”la Caixa” Fellowship Programme website.

For more information on the selection process, please refer to this document.

Contact: fellowships@fundacionlacaixa.org

Funding:This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No713673.

The co-funded part of the programme runs from 01/10/2016 to 30/09/2021 and finances the researchers recruited under Call 2017 and 2018.

Deadline: 17/12/2021 CLOSED

FPU Fellowships

The aim of the call is to award PhD fellowships, which will allow the applicant to hold the title of Doctor at its completion and the acquisition of university teaching skills in any area of scientific knowledge. ...

We are seeking highly talented and motivated students to apply for a FPU (Ministerio de Universidades) PhD grant.

Requirements

Requirements for the applicant:
- Candidates must not hold a PhD.
- Candidates must have enroled to a Doctoral Program at the deadline or, certify you hold a Master degree or an enrolment to a Master the course 2021-2022.
- End date of the Bachelor (240 ECTS) later than January 1st, 2018 or January 1st, 2017 when the Bachelor is of 180 ECTS. This limit can be extended in certain circumstances.
- Bachelor minimum average grade of 7,12
- Master minimum average grade of 8,33
- In the case of degrees obtained in foreign university systems, you must issue a Declaration of Average Grades (more information afterwards).
Requirements for the thesis supervisor:
- The thesis supervisor must hold a PhD and have a contractual relation along the grant with the University.
- The thesis supervisor can support one application per call.

Application procedure

There are two phases:

First phase:
- You must submit the application online. More information once the call will open.
Second phase:
- Applicant's CV
- CV of the thesis supervisor
- Report of the research group of the last five years
- Report of the research project

Check this guide for the application submission.

Check this guide to generate the Declaration of Equivalence of Average Grades by students who studied abroad.

Employment conditions

The duration of the contract is between one and four years.

The gross salary compensation will be 11888,49€ per month in the first two years, 1.273,38€ per month in the third year and 1.591,73€ per month in the fourth year.

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Deadline: 14/12/2021 CLOSED

NEWSPACE_PDG: Desenvolupament arquitectura operativa de la Plataforma Dades Geoespacials NEWSPACE, per a la generació productes i serveis

Les necessàries polítiques i mesures d’adaptació o mitigació dels efectes del canvi climàtic sobre el territori i, en especial, les afectacions de caire socioeconòmic que comporten són absolutament necessàries, però a la vegada precisen de mètriques o indicadors multidisciplinars que en permetin el seguiment, mesura i avaluació amb integritat.
Es fa per tant necessari proveir-se, o ampliar i millorar les existents, amb eines més efectives i complementaries en la identificació i monitorització de forma repetitiva, estable i amb integritat de l’estat, canvis, vulnerabilitat i afectacions sobre el territori com a eina de suport a la decisió.
Existeix un espai o “finestra” d’oportunitat d’innovació i potencial generació de productes i serveis en el nou escenari que plantegen els petits satèl·lits i en especial en el marc de l’estratègia NEWSPACE Catalunya. Els petits satèl·lits, encara més quan es despleguen com a constel·lació, són un “nou” vector de sensors d’observació de la Terra, i per tant exposat, com qualsevol altre enfocament de captació de dades, a avantatges i desavantatges:

• Els costos més baixos permeten que les arquitectures de constel·lació siguin més viables i comporten potencials millors temps de revisita
• Nous actors de la comunitat d’observació de la Terra poden desenvolupar noves capacitats i actius a la frontera estratègica de l’espai, amb riscos menors que grans missions subjectes a grans agències
• Es pot demostrar amb menys riscos la viabilitat de noves visions tecnològiques i / o demostradors científics.

El projecte d’investigació que es proposa per realitzar un doctorat industrial pretén el desenvolupament d’una arquitectura de processament de grans volums de dades geoespacials , que anomenarem Plataforma de Dades Geoespacial o PDG- que generi fluxos computacionals operacionals, dimensionats, optimitzats i controlats que permetin a partir de la ingesta i catalogació de grans volums de dades provinents de la fusió de les dades del segment espai dins l’estratègia Catalunya NewSpace amb dades del programa satèl.lit europeu en Observació de la Terra COPERNICUS i pròpies de l’Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, generar productes i serveis de valor afegit de la forma més industrialitzada i automàtica possible

La titulació requerida és una Enginyeria de Telecomunicacions o Informàtica, Màster en visió per computador, Físiques o Matemàtiques.

Es valorarà el coneixement de llenguatges de programació com Python, C o C++ i Matlab, de llibreries de processament d'imatges i d'anàlisi de processos estadístics i estocàstics multidimensional.

Les sol·licituds s'han d'enviar per correu a doctorats.industrials.sur@gencat.cat adjuntant aquest formulari.

Més informació aquí

Contacte: Javier Castañeda (jcastañeda@fqa.ub.edu)

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

Deadline: 01/12/2021 CLOSED

Postoctoral Fellowship with the Hadron and Nuclear Theory Group

The Hadron and Nuclear Theory group of the University of Barcelona invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow. ...

The Hadron and Nuclear Theory group of the University of Barcelona invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Job description:

The appointed researcher will be ascribed to the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics (FQA) and also to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence. Overall, the FQA and ICCUB host about 180 staff working in all aspects of cosmological sciences, leading to a vibrant fundamental research program in cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics.

The University of Barcelona Hadron and Nuclear Theory group has broad interests, including hadron theory, lattice QCD, quark-gluon plasma physics, nuclear structure, neutron stars and tests of fundamental symmetries using hadrons and nuclei. Senior group members include Mario Centelles, Volodymir Magas, Vincent Mathieu, Javier Menéndez, Assumpta Parreño, Àngels Ramos and Arnau Rios. A more detailed description of the group can be found at the HadNucAtUB web page.

Candidates must hold a PhD in physics at the starting date of the contract. They are expected to have a competitive research record in hadronic and/or nuclear theory, and a strong commitment to pursue cutting-edge research in collaboration with members of the group.

Employment conditions:

The position is offered for two years, and it is expected to begin no later than September 1^st 2022, although earlier starting dates may also be considered.

Gross annual salary includes social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.

Application procedure and deadline:

Applicants should provide a curriculum vitae, including list of publications and presentations, and a letter of motivation including research interests. They should also arrange for two or three letters of recommendation.

The application deadline is December 1st.

Applications, including the official application form (please download here), should be sent electronically to the General Affairs Office of the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Barcelona through the following email address: oag.fiq@ub.edu

Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallarés (secretaria@icc.ub.edu)

For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact:

Assumpta Parreño (assum@fqa.ub.edu) or
Javier Menéndez (menendez@fqa.ub.edu)

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

Contract funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Deadline: 30/11/2021 CLOSED

Postdoctoral positions in String Theory, Gravitation and Cosmology

Postdoctoral positions funded by the String Theory, Gravitation and Cosmology group at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC), University of Barcelona, are now open. ...

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 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, 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 2022 for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is November 30th 2021.

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: https://itf.fys.kuleuven.be/postdoc-application/

Interested candidates are also encouraged to apply to other ICC postdoctoral positions in related areas at http://icc.ub.edu/job/offers

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

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.

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.

Deadline: 18/11/2021 CLOSED

Postdoc position in theoretical star formation

The Star Formation group of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow. Job description: ...

The Star Formation group of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow.

Job description:

The successful applicant will work under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Padoan, and is expected to carry out tasks under Padoan’s current grant from the Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation. Such tasks include the development, analysis and interpretation of numerical simulations of the interstellar medium, the comparison of numerical simulations with observational data, the preparation of supercomputing proposals, the preparation of ALMA proposals, and the development of physics modules for an astrophysics code.

Candidates must hold a PhD in physics at the starting date of the contract. They are expected to have a competitive research record in star formation and advanced knowledge in Python and Fortran as well as experience in data analysis, numerical and observational data simulation.

Employment conditions:

The position is offered for one year with the possibility of extension to one addition year depending on funding and performance.

Gross annual salary includes social security and public healthcare benefits, covering spouse and children.

Application procedure and deadline:

Applicants should provide a curriculum vitae, and a letter of motivation including research interests.

The application deadline is November 18th.

Inquiries about the application submission can be directed to Esther Pallarés (secretaria@icc.ub.edu)

For inquiries about the scientific aspects, please contact:

Paolo Padoan (ppadoan@icc.ub.edu)

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

Contract funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

Deadline: 15/11/2021 CLOSED

Data scientist position in the Gaia Team

We are looking for a researcher with a math/data scientist background to work in the Gaia team of the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos de la Universitat de Barcelona in research on the formation and dynamics of our Galaxy. The project will use data from the Gaia satellite from the European Space Agency and simulations of galaxy evolution. The position consists of searching and designing novel methodologies to analyse data in multidimensional spaces, implement them and perform part of the analysis.

The position is for 6-8 months, with flexible working hours and possibility of part time. The contract corresponds to the established groups of working conditions at the University of Barcelona, with a minimum of 1900 gross salary per month for full time employment, depending on the candidate education level. The contract is expected to start between January and March of 2022. The selection process will stay open until a suitable candidate is found.

The employed candidate will join the Gaia group, which is a multidisciplinary team with about 20 people, including physicist, engineers and mathematicians, working on the development of the Gaia mission and scientific analysis of the data.

Requirements:

The candidate should have preferentially background in math, physics or data science. We will value experience in data analysis, and skills in python, cloud computing and machine learning. We will also value innovation capacity and interest for astrophysics and space.

Contact:

Teresa Antoja: tantoja@fqa.ub.edu

Lola Balaguer: lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu

Deadline: 11/11/2021 CLOSED

PhD grant on " Beyond the Standard Model: New Particle and Dark Matter"

The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition was awarded to the ICCUB for the second time by the Spanish Government in 2020, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research ...

The Unit of Excellence Maria de Maeztu recognition was awarded to the ICCUB for the second time by the Spanish Government in 2020, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programmes in the frontiers of knowledge. Thanks to this recognition, we have the opportunity to offer a PhD grant funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033:

- Beyond the Standard Model: New Particle and Dark Matter, PI Eugeni Graugés, Reference CEX2019-000918-M-21-2

Description:

The present data analysis from the LHCb experiment shows tensions between Standard Model (SM) predictions and measurements on several observables. A possible explanation is that those tensions are signs of contributions of new particles not foreseen in the SM, whose mass might be well beyond the reach of LHC center-of-mass energy for direct production, but nevertheless we can observe its effects on precision measurements. The PhD thesis funded by this grant will explore this possibility by increasing the data sample, and thus increase the present measurement precision, by using LHC RUN3 data, and disentangle the nature of the present data/SM-prediction tensions. If new particle contributions were to be found in the LHCb experiment data analysis, those could be clear candidates to take the role of Dark Matter (DM).

Requirements:

Who can apply?

Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2021/2022 academic year, at the time of the application submission. Applicants may also be all those people who, at the time of the application submission, not being enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program, will be on the date the contract is formalized, in accordance with article 18.

Applications must be submitted online through this link of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación from October 28 until November 11, 2021 at 2:00PM CET. To request the present research project please use the following reference: CEX2019-000918-M-21-2.

Employment conditions:

Which is the salary?

The minimum salary compensation that researchers in training must receive will be 16.640 euros gross per year for each of the first two years, 17.830 for the third year and 22.290 for the fourth year.

You will also get an additional funding of 6.860€ that you will be able to spend on tuition or research visits, for example. More information, at the article 7.

What is the duration of the contract?

A maximum of four years.

More information here

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

Deadline: 11/11/2021 CLOSED

PhD grant on "Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves"

The ICCUB, ...

The ICCUB, Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu, was awarded this recognition for the second time by the Spanish Government in 2020, as a center with a highly competitive strategic research programme in the frontiers of knowledge. Thanks to this recognition, we have the opportunity to offer a PhD grant funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ESF Investing in your future”:

- Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics from Gravitational Waves, PI Jordi Miralda, Reference CEX2019-000918-M-21-3

Description:

This thesis project is open to a variety of research projects related to fundamental gravity theory and applications of general relativity in cosmology.

Requirements:

· Who can apply?

Applicants may be all those who are enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program for the 2021/2022 academic year, at the time of the application submission. Applicants may also be all those people who, even though at the time of the application submission are not enrolled or admitted to a doctoral program, they will be on the date the contract is formalized, in accordance with article 18.

Employment conditions:

· Which is the salary?

You will also get an additional funding of 6.860€ that you will be able to spend on tuition or research visits, for example. More information, at the article 7.

· What is the duration of the contract?

A maximum of four years.

More information here

Contact: Jordi Miralda (jmiralda@fqa.ub.edu)

About the Institute of Cosmos Sciences:

As part of the University of Barcelona, the ICCUB is a recipient of the European Commission’s HR Excellence in Research (HRS4R) Award, which recognises, among other achievements, respect for equal opportunities and the capacity to attract talent in a positive working environment that promotes the pursuit of successful research careers. The ICCUB respects the principles of open, transparent, merit-based selection. We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities in physical sciences to apply. For additional information, please see the Diversity, equity and inclusion Commission.