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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Tweets by @ukthrumoursJobs and 5 Year fellowships for 2012-2013 Academic Year
Plymouth University
(Lectureship in Theoretical Physics, deadline 4th July)
Ari Hietanen (CP3-Origins)
Craig McNeile (Wuppertal)
Andrea Shindler (CERN)
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Offered to:
Craig McNeile (accepted)
Queen's Mary University of London
(Three-year lectureship in Theoretiacal Physics, deadline 3rdh June)
Offered to:
DAMTP
(Lectureship in Theoretiacal Physics, deadline 30th April)
Pau Figueras (DAMTP)
Claudia Hagedorn (Padova)
Jonathan Heckman (Harvard)
Sungjay Lee (DAMTP)
Jorge Santos (UCSB)
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Offered to:
Jorge Santos (accepted)
DAMTP
(Lectureship in Theoretiacal Physics with preference to Lattice, deadline 18th February)
Michele Della Morte (Valencia)
Ludmila Levkova (Arizona)
Ethan Neil (Fermilab)
Jorge Santos (Santa Barbara)
Christopher Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
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Offered to:
Christopher Thomas (accepted)
University of Southampton
(Lectureship in Theoretiacal High-Energy Particle Physics, deadline 12th February)
James Drummond (Annecy - CERN)
Anatoly Dymarsky (DAMTP)
Piyush Kumar (Yale)
Stefano Morisi (Wurzburg)
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Offered to:
Anatoly Dymarsky (declined)
James Drummond (accepted Redership/Associated Professorship)
King's College
(Lectureship in Theoretical Physics, deadline 31st January)
Sungjay Lee (DAMTP)
Sameer Murthy (Nikhef)
Shlomo Razamat (IAS)
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Offered to:
Sameer Murthy (accepted)
University of Glasgow
(Lectureship/Senior Lectureship/Readership depending on experience, deadline 23rd November)
Christoph Englert (IPPP Durham)
Christian Hoelbling (Wuppertal)
Dru Renner (Jefferson Lab)
Christopher Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
Offered to:
Christoph Englert (accepted)
University of Sussex
(Lectureship in Theoretical Particle Physics, deadline 21st November)
Andrea Banfi (Freiburg)
Christoph Englert (IPPP Durham)
Veronica Sanz (York, Canda)
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Offered to:
Andrea Banfi (accepted)
Veronica Sanz (accepted)
The University of Edinburgh
(Lectureship in Particle Physics, deadline 26th October)
Guido Bell (Oxford)
Christoph Englert (IPPP Durham)
Roberto Franceschini (Maryland)
Claudia Hagedorn (Padova)
Christoph Luhn (IPPP Durham)
Donal O'Connell (NBI)
Offered to:
Donal O'Connell (accepted)
Royal Society Fellowships (deadline 13 September)
Lara Anderson (Harvard, with Durham)
Andy O'Bannon (DAMTP, with Oxford)
Enrico Pajer (Princeton)
Costis Papageorgakis (Rutgers, with Imperial)
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Offered to:
Lara Anderson (declined)
Andy O'Bannon (accepted)
Costis Papageorgatis (accepted)
EPSRC Advanced Fellowships (no deadline)
Offered to:
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (deadline 27 September)
Alexander Mitov (CERN, with Cambridge)
Pat Scott (McGill, with Imperial)
Offered to:
Alexander Mitov (accepted)
Pat Scott
Theorist 2012-2013 Shuffles:
Alexander Mitov: CERN -> Cavendish (STFC RF and Lectureship)
Roman Zwicky: Southampton -> Edinburgh (Readership)
Jobs for Previous Academic Years
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