4-years PhD position ( FPI-grant, starting day December 1, 2023) related to the project PID2022-138626NB-I00: “New frontiers in gravitational wave physics: observations at design sensitivity and beyond”.. PI: Alicia M. Sintes, Sascha Husa. IAC3. Universitat de les Illes Balears, Mallorca, Spain

Funding body: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) & European Union:  European Regional Development Fund.

Application submission deadline: From Monday, October 02, 2023 until Monday, October 16, 2023

The call announcement can be found under

• https://investigacio.uib.es/Contractacio/Convocatories-vigents/  spanish
• https://investigacio.uib.cat/Contractacio/Convocatories-vigents/ catalán
• https://investigacio.uib.eu/Contractacio/Convocatories-vigents/ english

The Job offer is: 2023-24_2b_179  A pre-doctoral contract for the following project: ‘New Frontiers in Gravitational Wave Physics: Observations at Design Sensitivity and Beyond.’ Ref.: PID2022-138626NB-I00 /

Requirements: A Master’s Degree in Physics, Astrophysics or similar. Experience in software development. Some knowledge of astrophysics or relativity.

Starting contract:  December 1, 2023

The successful candidate may be member of the LIGO scientific collaboration, the LISA consortium and the Einstein Telescope project. Research within the Gravitational Physics Research Group at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) spans a wide range of topics, including gravitational wave data analysis, waveform modelling and numerical relativity. Computing is carried out using an in-house high-performance computer cluster, and external resources such as the Mare Nostrum supercomputer or the LIGO data grid The group comprises principal investigators Alicia Sintes and Sascha Husa, faculty members David Keitel, Xisco Jiménez and Jaume Carot, as well as several post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. For further details, please see: http://grg.uib.es.

Applications should be submitted via the Researcher Portal at the University of the Balearic Islands https://ppi.uib.eu/ by filling the relevant application form and uploading all required documents (CV, Passport, academic records, certificates, and any other supporting documents of the CV). More details under: https://seu.uib.cat/es/tablon?path=anuncio/764/

Notice  the CV will only be accepted in the CVN format provided by the FECYT, and a link to short video curriculum needs to be uploaded in the application form.

When filling the form, non-Spanish applicants need to click the box authorising “a duly authorised civil servant at the University of the Balearic Islands to register all the documentation requested” in the call for applications. The resulting PDF file of the form, together with the required supporting documents, should then be emailed to forhu.contractacio@uib.cat