The applicant must have a PhD in Astronomy, Astrophysics or Physics or have fulfilled all the requirements for a PhD by the time the contact starts.

The successful candidate will work with publication Licia Verde and the group on the interpretation of state-of-the art and forthcoming cosmological data. Experience with Cosmology, analysis of data, statistics, possibly applied in the cosmological context and familiarity with coding is highly desirable.

The bulk of the funding comes from an IDEAS European Research Council Award to Licia Verde. This position is for two years, possibly renewable for a third year, depending on performance and future funding.

A complete application (curriculum vitae, bibliography, summary of previous research, a statement of research interests and at least three references) should be uploaded here.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled with consideration guaranteed to all applications received by January, 31, 2017. The position expected to begin in the fall of 2017, but earlier starting date is negotiable. Informal inquiries can be directed to Prof. Licia Verde (liciaverde@icc.ub.edu).

Benefits: Social security, national healthcare paid by the employer see e.g.:

http://spain.othercountries.com/pages/articles/index.asp?page=social-security

1. Missió:

Donar suport a la Secretaria Científica de l’Institut de Ciències del Cosmos de la Universitat de Barcelona (ICCUB) en aquelles tasques no assumides per altres unitats de la UB.

2. Funcions genèriques:

·Donar suport administratiu a la direcció de l’ICCUB i als seus membres.

·Gestionar les convocatòries internes i externes de l’institut i fer-ne publicitat.

·Atendre consultes externes sobre convocatòries relacionades amb l’institut.

·Donar suport als nous membres del’institut en temes d’extrangeria i contractació i facilitar-los la incorporació.

·Coordinar viatges i estades de visitants.

·Gestionar l’adscripció de membres a l’institut.

·Controlar l’assignació de despatxos i resoldre les incidències que s’hi puguin ocasionar.

·Fer el seguiment d’existències de material i realitzar noves compres.

·Donar suport a la secretaria de l’ICCUB en l’organització d’ativitats.

3. Mèrits a valorar per a la provisió del lloc

·Dinamisme i iniciativa en la resolució de problemes.

·Coneixements sobre el funcionament i la legislació de l’administració pública.

·Experiència en tasques administratives i de comptabilitat.

·Experiència laboral en unitats administratives de la Universitat de Barcelona.

·Nivell alt en ofimàtica: MS Word, Excel, clients de correu, cerca d’informació per internet, etc.

·Nivell d’anglès suficient per poder-se comunicar correctament a nivell oral i per correu electrònic.

·Coneixements i experiencia en l’ús de SAP.

4. Condicions de l’oferta

Horari: De dilluns a divendres, de 10:00 a 14:00
Sou brut mensual: 956,47 euros
Tipus de contracte: Obra i Servei
Durada del contracte: Període de prova de 3 mesos, prorrogable mentre hi hagi la necessitat del servei i el pressupost.

Si esteu interessats en l’oferta, podeu enviar una carta d’interès i un CV a secretaria@icc.ub.edu

Three postdoctoral positions, funded by the European Research Council, are now open at the University of Barcelona. Selected candidates are expected to work with Prof Roberto Emparan and other members of the group on theoretical aspects of black hole physics, broadly defined.

Appointments will begin in the Fall of 2017 (or possibly earlier) for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is November 30, 2016.

Faculty members of our group working on black holes, gravitation and related areas include Bartomeu Fiol, Cristiano Germani, Jaume Garriga, David Mateos, Josep M. Pons and Enric Verdaguer. For more information, visit our website http://icc.ub.edu/

Application procedure

The University Barcelona is part of a group of European institutes with a centralized system of postdoctoral applications. Thus interested candidates should apply through the following website, choosing Barcelona as one of their preferred institutes:

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

The Gaia group at ICCUB is seeking a candidate to cover a technical support position to the data archive for the Gaia mission.

We are looking for highly motivated candidates holding a University Degree. The chosen candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of astronomers and engineers working in Gaia Data Archive. Gaia is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) that is mapping the Galaxy. His/Her work will be giving support to the data archive with the implementation and execution of the validation tests of the data. He/She will be in charge of implementing the validation algorithms in Java, integrate the code in the Gaia validation framework, the control of the code execution and the extraction and analysis of the results in close cooperation with the scientist of the team. He/She will also be in charge of the development and maintenance of the Gaia simulator that provides the big scale simulations to the rest of the coordination units of Gaia.

The job requires:

• Good level of English (both written and spoken)
  
• Good programming skills (especially in Java and Python)
  
• Knowledge of Linuz/Bash and shell scripting
  
• Ability to communicate and document
  
• Familiarity with large teams work
  

Will be positively evaluated:

• Degree in physics or engineering
  
• Knowledge of HTML and PHP
  
• Familiarity with LaTex for documentation, SubVersion and GNUplot.
  
• Familiarity with Space research
  
• Spanish and Catalan are plus.
• We will do a short test of the necessary skills.
• The contract will begin in January 2017 for a year.
• Gross salary: 26.000€.
• Contact Person: Lola Balaguer – email: lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu

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El grup Gaia busca una persona amb perfil de Tècnic d'enginyeria per a l'arxiu de la missió Gaia a l'Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (Maria de Maeztu).

Resum:

Es busca perfil de tècnic d'enginyeria per incorporar-se a un equip multidisciplinar (astrònoms i enginyers), per a tasques de suport a l'arxiu de dades de la missió espacial Gaia de l'Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA).

Tasques i responsabilitats:

Les tasques són de suport de l'arxiu de dades amb la implementació i execució dels tests de validació de dades. Haurà de implementar els algorismes de validació en Java, la integració del codi a l'entorn de validació de Gaia, el control de l'execució del codi, així com la extracció i anàlisis dels resultats en cooperació amb els científics de l'equip. També s'encarregarà del desenvolupament i manteniment del simulador de Gaia que proporciona simulacions de gran escala a la resta de unitats de coordinació de Gaia.

Habilitats:

• Imprescindible nivell alt d'anglès (llegit, escrit i conversa).
  
• Coneixements de llenguatges de programació orientats a objectes
  
• (especialment Java i Python).
  
• Coneixements de Linux/Bash i shell scripting.
  
• Es valoraran coneixements d'HTML i PHP.
  
• Es valorarà LaTeX (per a documentació), SubVersion i GNUplot.
  
• Comunicació escrita i verbal (capacitat de documentar).
  
• Capacitat de treball en equip.
  

Es realitzarà una breu prova de les habilitats esmentades.

Jornada: jornada completa

Incorporació: gener 2017,

Contracte d'obra i servei per un any.

Salari: 26000 (sou brut anual)

Persona de contacte: Lola Balaguer – email: lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu

The Gaia group at ICCUB is seeking a candidate to cover an engineer position for the Gaia mission.

We are looking for highly motivated candidates holding a University Degree. The chosen candidate will join a multidisciplinary team of astronomers and engineers working in the Gaia mission. Gaia is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) that is mapping extremely precisely our Galaxy.

His/Her work will be on the development of software for the treatment and analysis of scientific data produced by Gaia. He/She will work with the Initial Data Updating (IDU) system of Gaia and will be in charge of the development of the framework, implementation and interface with software produced by other teams and the tests of the IDU system. He/She will be responsible of the IDU runs and of the partial and total re-run for specific cases. He/She will be responsible of the development of IDU algorithms and of the related activities on the Data Processing Center of Barcelona.

The job requires:

• Degree in physics or engineering
  
• Good level of English (both written and spoken)
  
• Very good programming skills (especially in Java and Python)
  
• Expertise in HPC and experience in Marenostrum
  
• Knowledge of Linuz/Bash and shell scripting
  
• Ability to communicate and document
  
• Leading skills

Will be positively evaluated:

• Knowledge of astronomy
  
• Knowledge of HTML and PHP
  
• Familiarity with LaTex for documentation, SubVersion and GNUplot.
  
• Familiarity with Space research
  
• Spanish and Catalan are plus.
  

We will do a short test of the necessary skills.

The contract will begin in January 2017 for a maximum of two years.

Annual gross salary: 35.000€.

Contact Person: Lola Balaguer – email: lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu

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El grup Gaia busca una persona amb perfil d’Enginyer de Gaia a l'Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (Maria de Maeztu)

Resum:

Es busca perfil d’enginyer superior per incorporar-se a un equip multidisciplinar (astrònoms i enginyers) que treballa en la missió Gaia. Gaia és una missió de l'Agència Espacial Europea (ESA) que produeix el mapa més precís de la nostra galàxia.

Tasques i responsabilitats:

La seva feina es centra en el desenvolupament de software per al tractament i anàlisis de dades científiques produïdes per Gaia. Treballarà en el sistema Initial Data Updating (IDU) de Gaia, encarregat del desenvolupament del framework, de la implementació i com a interfície amb algorismes produïts per altres equips i dels tests del sistema IDU. Responsable de les execucions d'IDU i del seu re-run total i parcial en casos específics. Responsable del desenvolupament dels algorismes d'IDU i de les activitats relacionades en el Data Processing Center de Barcelona.

Habilitats:

• Imprescindible nivell alt d'anglès (llegit, escrit i conversa).
  
• Imprescindible bons coneixements de llenguatges de programació orientats a objectes (especialment Java i Python).
  
• Expert en HPC i amb experiència en Marenostrum
  
• Coneixements de Linux/Bash i shell scripting.
  
• Comunicació escrita i verbal (capacitat de documentar).
  
• Capacitat de lideratge d'un equip.
  
• Es valoraran coneixements d'astronomia i experiència en missions espacials.
  

Es realitzarà una breu prova de les habilitats esmentades.

Jornada: jornada completa

Incorporació: gener 2017

Contracte d'obra i servei per un any, renovable un segon any.

Salari: 35000 (sou brut anual)

Persona de contacte: Lola Balaguer – email: lbalaguer@fqa.ub.edu

The Particle Physics Phenomenology group of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona invites applications for the following non-tenured position:

One postdoctoral contract for a (non-extendable) period of four years. The default starting date would be 1 september 2017, but an earlier or later one is possible by common agreement. The approximate gross salary is 45,000 euros (approximately 27,000 euros after taxes and social security levies are deducted, but the final amount depends on the family situation of the postdoc). A limited amount of teaching could be assigned to the position on a voluntary basis.

The candidate is expected to work on phenomenological aspects of the Standard Model and possible extensions, and collaborating with the Phenomenology ICCUB faculty (D. Espriu, M.C. González-García, J. Guasch, J. Latorre, F. Mescia, J. Solà, J. Soto and J. Taron) is expected. The activities and interests of the different ICCUB groups can be found in the page icc.ub.edu

Candidates should meet the conditions set by the Juan de la Cierva program. The most relevant one is that applicants should have defended his Ph D after 1/1/11 and before 31/12/13. The lower limit is automatically extended by one year per every child born after the moment of the Ph D thesis defense. Other modifying circumstances may exist and in doubt candidates can ask for a clarification from the ICCUB secretariat (secretaria@icc.ub.edu)

PLEASE NOTE the unusual duration of the contract offered (four years)

DEADLINE: November 25th

One PhD studentship is open at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at University of Barcelona (ICCUB). It is funded by the ERC Advanced Grant of Prof Roberto Emparan "A New Strategy for Gravity and Black Holes" (ERC-2015-AdG 692951 GravBHs).

The successful applicant will work directly with Prof Emparan on novel theoretical approaches to black hole physics and gravity. They will be members of a very active group doing research on many areas of gravitational theory, string theory and cosmology.

Candidates must hold an MSc or equivalent in a field that is closely related to theoretical physics, with excellent performance in General Relativity.

The start date is expected to be early in 2017. The position will be funded for up to 4 years, and includes travel money.

Applications must be made online at the link provided above, and will contain a CV and at least two reference letters. Applications by any other means will not be considered.

See http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/204480_en.html for information about the objectives of the ERC project that funds this position

ICCUB offers a Technician position. The contract will have a maximum duration of 4 years, and will be supported by Banco Santander through “Post-doctoral researchers and technicians incorporation to Excellence units Maria de Maeztu” programme.

We are looking for highly motivated candidates, holding a University Degree on the level of Graduate, Engineer, or Architect. The scope of this call is similar to that of the Técnicos de Apoyo Grant Scheme.

The candidate will work on implementation of real-time systems for on board processing in space missions and for scientific instrumentation. Particularly back-end (data acquisition) and control systems for complex scientific instrumentation (space missions, particle detectors, etc) and related industrial applications. She/he will participate in all phases of FPGA design Flow (Synthesis, Place & Route, and Timing Closure). She/he will work in bringing-up and validate FPGAs and cards in the lab. He/she will develop real time processing in dedicated HW (ARM, GPU, DSP, etc). The candidate will work with the data and electronics engineering services of the ICCUB in a multidisciplinary environment involving also ICCUB scientists and international researchers. Those teams have developed instrumentation for space missions, astronomic observatories and particle detectors in high energy physics colliders.

The requisites of the candidate are knowledge and experience in:

• Engineering degree or similar (preferably Electronics Engineer) with good knowledge on FPGAs and real time processors.
  
• Implementation and verification of complex products that use FPGAs, ASICs and other real time processor (ARM, GPU, DSP, etc).
  
• Micro architecture and design partition within the ASIC/FPGA.
  
• Implementation of design blocks using Verilog / System Verilog.
  
• Knowledge of HW/SW co-design
  

ICCUB offers to the candidate the option to obtain a PhD associated to the tasks developed in this position.

Contract duration: 4 years
Goss salary per year: 16 K€

Interested candidates are invited to send the mandatory documents by email to: dgascon@fqa.ub.edu and jportell@fqa.ub.edu

Mandatory documents are:

1. Curriculum vitae
2. Copy of identity card (DNI) or passport
3. Certified copy of the diploma
4. Signed declaration stating that the candidate is not working in the Universitat de Barcelona and that he has not received a grant from “las convocatorias de personal técnico de apoyo del Programa Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016”

The original certified copy (3) and the signed declaration (4) should be send by ordinary mail to

Institut de Ciències del Cosmos
Martí i Franquès, 1
E-08028 Barcelona

Deadline: October 21th, 2016 at 15.00 h.

DOCUMENTS

• Call in pdf
• Signed declaration template

The University of Barcelona has published a call for PhD grants (APIF). 2 of these PhD grants will been assigned to the Institute of Cosmos Sciences. If you wish to apply for one of these grants, please follow the instructions given by the Universitiy of Barcelona.

Information about the call: http://www.ub.edu/beques/3rcicle/ub/apif/index.html

Application form:http://convocatories.ub.es/brd/

Contact:

For non-scientific issues: beca.predoctoral@ub.edu or +3493 402 17 74
For scientific issues: The ICCUB member who would be in charge with your thesis

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB), a María de Maeztu Excellence Unit of the University of Barcelona, announces the opening of four predoctoral positions in the frame of the MINECO's program "Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2016".

The fellowships will have a duration of 4 years. If the PhD thesis is finished in 3 years, the student will be able to keep their contract as a postdoc fellow for one more year.

Applications should follow the MINECO's procedure. For an English translation of the procedure please see attached document.

Positions associated with the María de Maeztu Excellence Unit:

1- PRECISE DETERMINATION OF THE NEUTRINO MASS FROM COSMOLOGY
IP: Licia Verde
[+]

2-SEARCH OF NEW PHYSICS IN RADIATIVE FLAVOUR DECAYS
IP: Lluís Garrido
[+]

3- GALAXY FORMATION AND CHEMO-DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION UNRAVELLED BY GAIA

IP: Jordi Miralda
[+]

4- THE GAIA ARCHIVE

IP: Xavier Luri
[+]

The Gaia group from the Institute of Cosmos Science and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia opens a call for TWO scholarships for the months of July to September for research training. These scholarships are addressed to:

(A) Students in the final years of the degree in Physics or of the double degree in Physics-Mathematics, who have completed the course in Observational Astronomy or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge.

(B) Students in the final years of an engineering degree (preferably Computer Science or Telecommunications) or a Mathematics degree.

Programming skills and ability to work independently will be positively valued.

During the gran tperiod a research project related with the research lines of the group will be developed. The Gaia group is involved in the space mission of the same name whose aim is to measure the positions, movements, parallaxes and physical properties of a billion stars in our Galaxy. Gaia was launched in December 2013 and is currently undergoing the operational phase that lasts 5 years. The projects to be developed are related to the preparation of the data exploitation data from both a scientific and technological point of view, and possibly supporting data processing systems at the BCS-MareNostrum.

The remunerationis of 700 euros gross per month.

Interested people must submit a CV, a copy of the academic transcript and a cover letter explaining why are you interested in this grant to Susanna Bascón sbascon@am.ub.es before the 31 May 2016. The resolution will be the 15 June 2016.

For further information, contact with:

Jordi Torra, Francesca Figueras, Xavier Luri o Carme Jordi (Facultat de Física)

The Gaia group (Department of Astronomy and Meteorology at University of Barcelona, Institute of Cosmos Sciences, Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia) is looking for a student to join a multidisciplinary team of astronomers and engineers, to operate, test, monitorize and evaluate the efficiency of a software for massive processing of scientific data, for the ESA's Gaia space mission.

Tasks and responsbilities:

• Daily supervision of the Gaia data processing system in Madrid
• Execution, analysis and documentation of tests on the daily processing system
• Improve and automatizaton and monitorization of the system as needed
• Improving and automating an alert system for the daily processing of Gaia
• Supervision of the Gaia data processing system in Barcelona
• Implementing and improving modules of the data processing system in Barcelona
• Supporting tasks of the processing center in Barcelona
• Review of the website monitoring system of the daily processing of Gaia

Required skills:

• Indispensable High level of English (reading, writing and speaking).
• Knowledge of object oriented programming languages (Java, Python, ...).
• Knowledge of Linux / bash and shell scripting
• Knowledge of HTML and PHP will be positively valued.
• Knowledge of LaTeX (for documenting), SubVersion, and GNUplot will be positively valued.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Documentation skills.
• Team-work ability.

We will make a brief aptitude test in order to prove the mentioned skills.

Contract: part-time.

Immediate incorporation.

Interested people should send a CV and a copy of the academic record to sbascon@am.ub.es

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for 1 postdoctoral position in Experimental Particle Physics to join the ICCUB LHCb group. The ICCUB has experienced a major expansion in the last few years and has been awarded the Maria de Maeztu Unit of Research Excellence distinction.

Applicants should have completed a PhD in Physics by the time the contract starts. The successful applicants are expected to join the ICCUB at most by the end of 2016, and will be encouraged to collaborate broadly with our faculty, other postdocs, and students.

Candidates with interest and/or experience in :

• Experimental particle physics
  
• Data Analysis
  
• CP Violation in b-Hadrons
  
• Radiative decays of b-Hadrons
  

The ICCUB currently participates in the LHCb experiment at CERN and contributes to its future upgrade. General scientific inquiries in relation to the positions can be addressed to Dr. Eugeni Graugés (eugeni.grauges@cern.ch).

The positions is for two years and it is renewable for a third one subject to funding availability. The gross annual salary will be approximately €32000, and it includes full family health insurance benefits. Reasonable travel funding will be available.

Applicants should submit their applications electronically at icc.ub.edu/job/offers including their curriculum vitae, a description of past and current research and a statement of research interests, and arrange for three letters of recommendation by December 15 2015.

The deadline for the recommendation letters to be submitted is December 31.

• Theoretical cosmology, large-scale structure surveys,
  
• Dark matter, galaxy formation and the intergalactic medium,
  
• High-energy astrophysics,
  
• Numerical simulations and observations of star formation,
  
• Galactic astronomy in the GAIA era.
  

The ICCUB has access to large computer resources for numerical studies, and participates in the international missions of GAIA, MAGIC, CTA, DESI, WEAVE and LSST. Applicants are encouraged to consult the ICCUB research interests at icc.ub.edu for more details, and to contact directly the faculty in the research lines of their interest. General scientific inquiries in relation to the positions can be addressed to jmparedes@icc.ub.edu.

The positions are for two years and are renewable for a third one subject to funding availability. The gross annual salary will start at €30000, and the position includes full family health insurance benefits. Reasonable travel funding will be available.

Applicants should submit their applications electronically at icc.ub.edu/job/offers including their curriculum vitae, a description of past and current research and a statement of research interests, and arrange for three letters of recommendation by December 15th 2015. The deadline for the recommendation letters to be submitted is December 30th.

The Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) invites applications for one electronics engineer positions for technological developments within SiUB. The ICCUB has experienced a major expansion in the last few years and has been awarded the Maria de Maeztu Unit of Research Excellence distinction.

SIUB is an instrumentation service of the Physics Faculty of the University of Barcelona created with the aim of providing a service on instrumentation design, development and test to research groups of the UB and other research institutions and to enhance industry technology transfer.

The selected candidate is expected to cover a wide spectrum of electronics, ranging from fast low noise amplifiers to control and readout of multi channels digital systems and involves all tasks from circuit design and layout, to building characterization setups and programming micro controllers and FPGAs. Thus, providing support to ICCUB technological projects like the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) or new space projects currently in preparation. SiUB is also very active in technology transfer in the field of medical imaging and light sensors signal processing.

Expected profile:

• University degree (or equivalent, including experience) in the electronics engineering
  
• Profound know-how and experience in
  
• analogue and/or digital electronics
• design and simulation tools for digital and analog ASIC development
• PCB design tools, RF simulation and characterization
• Know-how and experience in
  
• FPGA programing (VHDL)
• PCB assembly and test equipment
• Programming in LabView
• technical project management and of the systems engineering processes
• General purpose programming and data analysis
• Good level of English (both written and spoken)
  
• Ability to write accurate and consistent technical documentation
  
• Familiarity with large teams
  
• Readiness for occasional trips to experiment sites worldwide
  
• Spanish and Catalan are plus
  

We intend to fill this position as soon as possible, with initial deadline by November 30th 2015.

The contract will be for one year renewable if funds are available.

The salary will be agreed upon with the successful applicant.

Contact Person: Ricardo Graciani

Please send your CV and letter of interest to jobs@icc.ub.edu with subject "EE2015"

The Gaia group at IEEC - UB-ICC is seeking a candidate to cover a programmer position .

We offer a contract to join the validation team that will implement and execute the data validation for the Gaia data releases.

This validation requires:

• Implementing data validation algorithms in Java
• Integration of the code in the validation framework
• Control of the execution of the code
• Extraction and analysis of the validation results in cooperation with the Gaia scientists
• Development and maintenance of the Gaia simulator. Provide large scale simulations to the other Coordination Units when it is required.

The job requires mainly programming skills in java and experience in standard code development tools and procedures, as well as good level in English for the writing of the code documentation. Familiarity with the development of software in scientific projects is a plus.

The job requires:

- University degree (or equivalent, including experience) in the engineering, physics, or computer science

- Good programming skills in Java, Python, SQL, XML and advanced knowledge of Linux shell programming

- Familiarity with team programming tools (e.g. programming environments like eclipse, ANT building, SVN repositories, Jenkins continuous integration tool, etc.)

- Good level of English (both written and spoken)

- Ability to write accurate and consistent technical documentation.

- Familiarity with large teams work

Will be positively evaluated:

- Background in astrophysics or experience in astrophysics projects

- Familiarity with Space research

- Spanish and Catalan are plus.

We intend to fill this position as soon as possible.

The contract will be until the end of 2016.

The salary will be agreed upon with the successful applicant.

Contact Person: Lola Balaguer

Two postdoctoral positions are now open at the ICCUB. Candidates in the areas of Gravitation, Cosmology, Particle Physics and String theory will be considered. The positions are partially funded by the European Research Council and by the Maria de Maeztu Unit of Research Excellence distinction.

Appointments will begin in the Fall of 2016 for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is November 30 2015. However, candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, since some of them may be invited to visit the University of Barcelona over the coming weeks.

For information about research at our group visit our website http://icc.ub.edu/

Application procedure

The University of Barcelona is part of a group of European institutes with a centralized system of postdoctoral applications. Thus interested candidates should apply exclusively through the following website, choosing Barcelona as one of their preferred institutes:

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

The Hadronic, Nuclear and Atomic Physics Group of the Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria of the University of Barcelona and of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB) invites applications to fill a postdoc position starting in January 2016. The successful candidate will be employed as a postdoctoral researcher for a minimum period of 1 year, which can be extended for 1 more year. Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree, or foreign equivalent, and a strong record of published research in nuclear or particle physics. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of methods of many body quantum mechanics and possessing programming skills in Fortran. The successful candidate will be working on the description of different reactions involving particles with charm quarks, in particular J/Ψ and D mesons, both in free space and in the nuclear medium.

For more information contact Volodymyr Magas, email: vladimir @ ecm.ub.edu.

The grants are distributed as follows:

* 2 grants for covering 100% of the tuition fees.
* 4 grants for covering 50% of the tuition fees.

In both cases there is a maximum of 60 credits to be enrolled in for the first time at the corresponding price per credit for european students.

Requirements

* To have been accepted into the master course in Astrophysics, Particle Physics and Cosmology of University of Barcelona before the deadline for the offer of these six grants (25th of September). The pre-enrollment for the master course will need to be held until the day assigned for formalizing the final enrollment.

Selection criteria

The criteria to be followed for assigning the grants is ordered by importance and consists on:

1) Average grade

2) Suitability of candidate's previous CV to the master course

3) Equal distribution of the grants between the two modalities of the master. In case of draw it will apply the gender parity criteria.

Tramitation

Students who wish to apply for any of the grants will need to fill the normalized sheet provided at:

http://www.ub.edu/beques/1r2ncicle/

The normalized sheet and the documents specified in base IV of the call will need to be submited at any UB Register point from the 7th to the 25th of September.

Deadline

25th of September

The deadline for applying is September 7th, 2015, at 12:00 (local time).

Find all relevant information such as requisites and application forms at the master website (link below).

The Gaia group at IEEC - UB-ICC is seeking a candidate to cover a documentalist position. We offer a contract to join the documentation team that will generate the documentation for the Gaia releases. The job involves receiving from the scientists and engineers working on the DPAC consortium the contents of the documentation in LaTeX format and reformatting it into the system selected for the publication. This system is presently being defined and will allow formatting of the original content into different environments (including the ESA web sites, PDF documents, mobile devices, etc.) and part of the job will be the contribute to its development and implementation for the production phase. The applicant should have familiarity with these processes of electronic publishing and a technical background, especially in astronomy, and programming skills will be a plus.

• Good level of English (both written and spoken)

• Good programming skills (preferably in Python)

• Knowledge of LaTeX, HTML and Javascript

• Knowledge of Web Content Management Systems (wiki, Drupal, etc.)

• Familiarity with large teams work

Will be positively evaluated:

• Degree in physics or engineering

• Familiarity with mark-up publishing systems, preferably XML

• Familiarity with Space research

• Spanish and Catalan are plus.

The Gaia group (Department of Astronomy and Meteorology at University of Barcelona, Institute of Cosmos Sciences, Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia) is looking for two students to join a multidisciplinary team of astronomers and engineers, to operate, test, monitorize and evaluate the efficiency of a software for massive processing of scientific data, for the ESA's Gaia space mission.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Position 1: IDU

• Operationof the Gaia processing system at Barcelona.

• Launch simulations on MareNostrum-BSC.

• Execution and analysis of cyclic processing system efficiency tests.

• Work as a member of the quality control team and document and execute defined test cases.

• Prepare and execute "scripts" test, document test results and review the "scripts" as needed.

• Improve the automation of the system as needed.

Posiciótion 2: IDT

• Supervision of the Gaia data processing system at Madrid.

• Analysis of the daily processing results.

• Execution and analysis of performance tests on the daily processing system.

• Work as a member of the quality control team and document and execute defined test cases.

• Prepare and run test scripts, document test results and review scripts as needed.

• Improve the automation and monitorization of the system as needed.

Required skills for the two positions:

• Knowledge of object oriented programming languages (Java, Python, ...).

• Knowledge of Linux / bash and shell scripting (including Awk).

• Knowledge of LaTeX (for documenting), SubVersion, Eclipse and GNUplot will be positively valued.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Documentation skills.

• High level of English (reading, writing and speaking).

• Team-work ability.

We will make a brief aptitude test in order to prove the mentioned abilities.

Contract: part-time.

Immediate incorporation.

Interested people should send a CV and a copy of the academic record to the email address below.

El grup Gaia del Dept d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya convoca DUES beques per als mesos dejuliol-setembre per a la formació en recerca.

• Les beques estan dirigides a alumnes dels darrers cursos del grau de Física o doble titulació de Física-Matemàtiques, que hagin cursat l'assignatura d'Astronomia Observacional o que puguin acreditar coneixements equivalents.
  

• Durant el període de la beca es desenvoluparà un projecte de recerca relacionat amb els temes d'investigació del grup. El grup Gaia està involucrat en la missió espacial del mateix nom que té per objectiu la mesura de posicions, moviments, paral·laxis i propietats físiques de mil milions d'estrelles de la nostra Galàxia. Es va llançar al desembre de 2013 i actualment és en fase operacional, fase que dura 5 anys. Els projectes a desenvolupar estan relacionats amb la preparació de l'explotació científica d'aquestes dades.
  

• La remuneració és de 700 euros bruts mensuals.
  

Les persones interessades han d'enviar: un curriculum, una còpia de l'expedient acadèmic i un full expressant el seu interès per la beca a Susanna Bascón sbascon@am.ub.es abans del 15 d'abril de 2015.

La concessió es resoldrà el 30 d'abril de 2015.

Per a més informació, contacteu amb:

Jordi Torra, Carme Jordi, Xavier Luri o Francesca Figueras

One postdoctoral position in theoretical particle physics is now open at the University of Barcelona to work in one of the topics listed below:

• LHC physics: Higgs physics, B-physics, heavy ion collision theory and phenomenology, effective theories.
• Cosmology and astroparticle physics: dark matter candidates, the issue of the cosmological constant, neutrino physics.
• String theory: holography, applications to condensed matter systems, supersymmetric theories.

Faculty members of our group working on these areas include Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Roberto Emparan, Domenec Espriu, Bartomeu Fiol, M.C. González-Garcia, Jaume Garriga, Joaquim Gomis,Jaume Guasch, David Mateos, Federico Mescia, Alessio Notari, Josep Maria Pons, Jorge Russo, Joan Sola, Joan Soto, Pere Talavera, Josep Taron and Enric Verdaguer.

Appointments will begin in the Fall of 2015 for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is December 15th 2014.

Application procedure

Interested candidates should submit an application including a pdf with the CV, list of publications and statement on research via this web page. They should also include the name and email addresses of three referees, who will be asked to submit their recommendation letters via web.

The Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API) and the GRAPPA (GRavitation and AstroParticle Physics in Amsterdam) Center of Excellence, at the University of Amsterdam, invite applications for multiple PhD positions in astronomy, astrophysics and astroparticle physics.The positions are open to candidates from any country.The institutes provide a stimulating, international environment in a city where English is the common second language.

University of Amsterdam PhD students are fully-funded for four years and earn competitive salaries.PhD students execute a vigorous research program, under the supervision of one or more faculty members.Positions will be available in a number of fields of research where the institutes are active, including exoplanets, neutron stars and black holes, supernova remnants, fast radio transients, and the nature and detection of dark matter.

More information about our research can be found at http://www.astro.uva.nl/research/ and http://grappa.science.uva.nl .

Instructions for applicants are available at http://www.astro.uva.nl/jobs .Applications will be via online submission where, as well as providing details of at least two referees, applicants will have to provide a curriculum vitae, a list of all university courses taken and grades obtained, and a cover letter which includes a brief statement of research interests and experience.

The successful candidates must have a MSc degree (or equivalent) by the PhD starting date, which will typically be in Autumn 2015, but this is negotiable.Applications need to be submitted on or before December 11th, 2014.By early-January we will invite promising candidates for a presentation and interviews to be held on February 12 and 13, 2015.

Included Benefits:

The standard, generous Dutch social benefits apply to this position including collective health insurance, 16 weeks paid maternity leave, childcare subsidies, pension accrual, and several weeks annual paid vacation.

At least one postdoctoral position in the fields of Gravity, String Theory, and Cosmology, is now open at the University of Barcelona.

Faculty members of our group working on these areas include Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, Roberto Emparan, Domenec Espriu, Bartomeu Fiol, Jaume Garriga, Cristiano Germani, Joaquim Gomis, Jaume Guasch, David Mateos, Alessio Notari, Josep M. Pons, Jorge Russo and Enric Verdaguer. For more information, visit our website http://icc.ub.edu/

Appointments will begin in the Fall of 2015 for a period of 2+1 years, with the third year subject to performance and funding availability. The deadline for applications is November 30 2014.

Application procedure

The University Barcelona is part of a group of European institutes with a centralized system of postdoctoral applications. Thus interested candidates should apply through the following website, choosing Barcelona as one of their preferred institutes:
https://itf.fys.kuleuven.be/postdoc-application/

The application requires that candidates be registered in the PhD program in Particle Physics and Gravitation of UB. Nevertheless, this registration may be attested after the abovementioned deadline, within an application-ammendment period.