Dear all,

the Illinois Relativity Group (consisting of Professors Stuart Shapiro, Nico 
Yunes and, as of next January, myself as well as postdocs and PhD students) is 
opening a postdoctoral research position in numerical relativity and 
relativistic astrophysics. You can find more details below and here:

https://hyperspace.uni-frankfurt.de/2019/09/04/postdoctoral-research-position-in-numerical-relativity-and-computational-astrophysics-at-university-of-illinois-at-urbana-champaign/

We would appreciate it if you could circulate the information to interested 
candidates.

Best wishes,

Helvi

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Postdoctoral Research Position in
Numerical Relativity and Computational Astrophysics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research position in the Illinois 
Relativity Group. The candidate should have expertise in numerical relativity 
and relativistic astrophysics. Some experience in computational hydrodynamics 
and/or computational MHD would be desirable.

Applicants should go online at https://my.physics.illinois.edu/join/ to submit 
their application, which must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, list of 
publications, brief description of research interests, and the names, mailing 
and email addresses of three references. Please contact Elisabeth Greifenkamp 
at greif...@illinois.edu<mailto:greif...@illinois.edu> if you have any 
questions. Applications should be posted by DEC 1, 2019 for full consideration. 
The starting date of the position is AUG 15, 2020.

The successful applicant will join Professor Stuart Shapiro in developing and 
applying the tools of numerical relativity together with computational 
hydrodynamics, MHD, and/or stellar dynamics to tackle diverse problems in 
general relativity and astrophysics. Recent topics include the inspiral and 
coalescence of compact binaries, the generation of gravitational waves, 
magnetized neutron stars, magnetorotational stellar collapse, accretion onto 
isolated and binary black holes, the formation and cosmological growth of 
supermassive black holes in the early universe, and the dynamics of dark matter 
halos and spikes around black holes. Some of this work is geared to identifying 
astrophysically plausible, strong-field sources of gravitational waves and 
calculating gravitational waveforms detectable by LIGO/VIRGO, KAGRA, LISA and 
the PTA. For these “multimessenger” sources we are also exploring counterpart 
electromagnetic signals, including gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, as well as 
neutrinos.

In addition to Professor Shapiro, the Illinois Relativity Group includes 
Professors Nicolas Yunes and Helvi Witek, their postdocs, PhD and undergraduate 
research students. It maintains close interactions with UIUC colleagues in 
Physics, Astronomy and NCSA, in addition to several outside collaborators.

The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

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Dr. Helvi Witek
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology.
Department of Physics
King's College London
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