Contact: nfrusciante[AT]fc.ul.ptLocation: Lisbon, Portugal
The Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) welcomes applications to the international call for the recruitment of a scientific researcher with a PhD degree, within the scope of the project BEYLA: BEYond LAmbda (Ref. PTDC/FIS-AST/0054/2021), financed by Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia and with P.I. Dr. Noemi Frusciante. The employment contract is expected to start in second quarter of 2022 and will have a duration of 24 months. The contracted researcher will work in the Lisbon node of IA.
Portuguese nationals, foreign and stateless persons may submit applications to this selection procedure, provided they hold a doctoral degree in Physics or Astrophysics (or similar areas) (foreign degree needs a Portuguese Recognition), have specialised skills and/or expertise in the field of Cosmology and Astrophysics, and fully comply with the following requirements:
a) Demonstrated previous scientific experience in modified theories of gravity;
b) Demonstrated scientific experience in one or more of these areas: tests of gravity; parameter estimation, forecasts, modeling of the non-linear regime to probe smaller scales, gravitational waves;
c) Numerical skills in building the appropriate numerical tools.
For more informations please visit the post advertisement in the IA webpage.