Cardiff Gravitational Physics (http://www.astro.cardiff.ac.uk/research/gravity/) is seeking applications to fill the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate. This is a two-year position at the Grade 6 level.
Cardiff University has recently made significant investment in a new research programme in experimental gravitational-wave physics, led by Prof. Hartmut Grote and Dr. Katherine Dooley. The research associate will support this new effort, and contribute to establishing the research programme. The group pursues research in the fields of interferometric readout schemes, seismic sensing, squeezed-light application, control topologies for 3rd generation interferometers, and fundamental physics using interferometry.
Other Cardiff group members play leading roles in the search for signals from gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and the coalescence of neutron star and black hole binaries; and in modelling astrophysical sources of gravitational waves using analytical and numerical relativity and developing search algorithms for their detection and interpretation with current and future detectors.
The group is a founding member of GEO600, a member of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration and has played a leading role in these collaborations from their inception through to the recent first direct detections of gravitational waves. The Cardiff group is also active in the planning and development of future detectors, such as LIGO-India, the Einstein Telescope and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA).
The position is full time and available from 1st April 2018, but the precise starting date is negotiable.
Salary: GBP 32,548 – 38,833 per annum (Grade 6)
Informal enquiries about the role can be made by email to Prof. Hartmut Grote (hartmut.grote[AT]ligo.org).
Informal enquiries about working at Cardiff University can be made to Glesni Lloyd (LloydGW[AT]cardiff.ac.uk).
Closing date: Wednesday, 17 January 2018