Research Fellow

The University of Southampton is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position in gravitational-wave source modelling. The successful candidate will join Adam Pound's ERC Consolidator Grant/UKRI Frontier Research Grant programme to model waveforms from small-mass-ratio binaries.

Southampton's School of Mathematical Sciences is home to world-leading research groups in gravitational physics, currently comprising 16 staff members, over 10 postdocs, and around 20 PhD students. Research in the groups includes black-hole and neutron-star physics, gravitational-wave source modelling and data analysis, gravitational self-force, numerical relativity, string theory, and holography. The group is involved in the LISA Consortium, the LISA DDPC, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and the Einstein Telescope Observational Science Board. 

The successful applicant will contribute to high-accuracy gravitational-wave model development for both current and future detectors. The fellow will also have the opportunity to join the international collaboration on post-adiabatic self-force models, which links Southampton to University College Dublin, the Albert Einstein Institute, the Niels Bohr Institute, the Université libre de Bruxelles, and others.

The ideal candidate will have a track record in at least one of the following research areas: the relativistic two-body problem (including post-Newtonian or post-Minkowskian approximations), gravitational self-force theory, black hole perturbation theory, tidal perturbations of compact bodies, and environmental or beyond-GR effects in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals. The applicant will have, or be about to obtain, a relevant PhD degree in physics or mathematics.

The post will be for 3 years, with a negotiable start date.

Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

A complete application should include (i) a CV, including a list of publications, (ii) a statement of research interests (1 to 2 pages), and (iii) the contact information of at least two referees.

Informal enquiries may be made to Adam Pound at A.Pound@soton.ac.uk.

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