UK and Ireland Theoretical Particle Physics Jobs Rumour Mill This is an informal rumour board providing (hopefully) useful information about careers in particle physics research in the UK and Ireland. This page is not endorsed in any way from Swansea University, which can not be held responsible for its content. We cannot guarantee that any information is accurate. This information is provided as a public service, no warranty is expressed or implied. Your mileage may vary.
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Jobs and 5 Year fellowships for 2008-2009 Academic Year
Edinburgh
(Lectureship in Theoretical Particle Physics, deadline 25 September)
Offered to:
King's College London
(Lectureship in Theoretical Physics, deadline 9 March)
Offered to:
Sussex
(Lectureship or Readership on phenomenology, deadline 9 March)
Xavier Calmet (Louvain)
Ilia Gogoladze (Delaware)
Sebastian Jaeger (TU Munich)
...
Offered to:
Xavier Calmet (accepted)
Sebastian Jaeger (accepted)
Glasgow
(Lectureship on collider phenomenology or lattice QCD, deadline 27 February)
Jack Laiho (Washington St. Louis)
Craig McNeile (Glasgow)
...
Offered to:
Jack Laiho (accepted)
NExT Institute at Southampton/RAL/RHUL & Sussex
(six permanent Fellowships/Lectureships in particle physics phenomenology, deadlines vary)
Elena Accomando (Turin)
Oliver Brein (IPPP Durham)
Frank Deppisch (Manchester)
Pasquale Di Bari (Padova)
Thomas Gregoire (Edinburgh)
Keith Hamilton (UC Louvain)
Rakhi Mahbubani (Fermilab)
Nikolas Kauer (Wurzburg)
Stephen West (Oxford)
Christian Schwinn (Durham)
Roman Zwicky (Edinburgh)
...
Offered to:
Elena Accomando (Southampton, accepted)
Pasquale Di Bari (Southampton, accepted)
Thomas Gregoire (Sussex, accepted)
Keith Hamilton (Southampton, declined)
Nikolas Kauer (RHUL, accepted)
Stephen West (RHUL, accepted)
Roman Zwicky (Southampton, accepted)
Royal Society Fellowships (deadline October)
Damien Easson (University of Tokyo, with King's College)
Offered to:
EPSRC Advanced Fellowships
Vishnu Jejjala (IHÉS)
Offered to:
STFC Advanced Fellowships
Offered to:
Theorist 2008-2009 Shuffles:
Andrei Starinets (Southampton) -> Oxford
Jobs for Previous Academic Years
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