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Jobs and 5 Year fellowships for 2009-2010 Academic Year
Oxford
(Lectureship in Mathematical Physics, deadline 23 April)
Luis Fernando Alday (IAS)
Volker Braun (DIAS)
Maciej Dunajski (Cambridge)
Natalia Saulina (Perimeter)
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Offered to:
Luis Fernando Alday (Accepted)
Cambridge (DAMTP)
(Professorship in Mathematical Physics, deadline 31 May)
Offered to:
Cambridge (DAMTP)
(Lectureship in Theoretical Physics, deadline 22 April)
Daniel Baumann (IAS)
Joe Conlon (Oxford)
Luis Fernando Alday (IAS, withdrawn)
Natalia Saulina (Perimeter)
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Offered to:
Daniel Baumann (accepted)
Cambridge (Cavendish)
(Lectureship in Theoretical High Energy Physics, deadline 22 April)
Bob McElrath (Heidelberg)
Andreas Weiler (CERN)
James Wells (CERN)
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Offered to:
James Wells (Accepted)
Oxford
(Lectureship in BSM particle theory, deadline 22 December)
Joe Conlon (Oxford)
Sebastian Franco (KIPT)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (KITP)
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Offered to:
Durham
(Lectureships in Mathematical Physics, deadline 17 January)
Luis Fernando Alday (IAS)
Paul Heslop (Durham)
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Offered to:
Luis Fernando Alday (Declined)
Paul Heslop (Accepted)
IPPP Durham
(Four Lectureships in Particle Physics Phenomenology, deadline 8 January)
Jeppe Andersen (CERN)
Celine Boehm (Annecy)
Thorsten Feldmann (TUM)
Pavel Fileviez Perez (UW-Madison)
Ulrich Haisch (Mainz)
Daniel Maitre (Durham)
Bob McElrath (Heidelberg)
Graeme Watt (CERN)
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Offered to:
Celine Boehm (accepted)
Thorsten Feldmann (accepted)
Daniel Maitre (accepted)
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Glasgow
(Lectureship in Theoretical Particle Physics, deadline 16 November)
Barbara Jaeger (Wuerzburg)
Juergen Reuter (Freiburg)
Chris White (IPPP Durham)
Offered to:
Chris White (accepted)
IPPP Durham
(Professorship in Particle Physics Phenomenology, deadline 30 October)
Offered to:
Edinburgh
(Lectureship in Theoretical Particle Physics, deadline EXTENDED to 16 October)
Einan Gardi (Edinburgh)
Ben Gripaios (CERN)
Gudrun Heinrich (IPPP Durham)
Pierpaolo Mastrolia (CERN)
Juergen Reuter (Freiburg)
Andreas Weiler (CERN)
Offered to:
Ben Gripaios (declined)
Andreas Weiler (declined)
Einan Gardi (accepted)
Juergen Reuter (accepted)
King's College London
(Four Lectureships in Theoretical Physics, deadline passed)
Benjamin Doyon (Durham)
Nadav Drukker (Humboldt)
Nikolay Gromov (DESY)
Jan Gutowski (King's College)
Paul Heslop (Queen's Mary)
Ingo Kirsch (DESY)
Oleg Lunin (Chicago)
Dario Martelli (Swansea)
Fabio Riccioni (King's College)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (CALTECH)
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Offered to:
Benjamin Doyon (accepted)
Nikolay Gromov (accepted)
Dario Martelli (accepted)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (accepted)
Royal Society Fellowships (deadline 17 September)
Offered to:
EPSRC Advanced Fellowships (deadline 6 October)
James Gray (Oxford, with Durham)
Offered to:
STFC Advanced Fellowships (deadline 15 October)
Nadav Drukker (Humboldt, with Imperial)
Gabriele Honecker (Leuven, with Liverpool)
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Offered to:
Nadav Drukker (accepted)
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Theorist 2009-2010 Shuffles:
John Ellis (CERN) -> King's College
Yang-Hui He (Oxford) -> City University
Jobs for Previous Academic Years
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