In addition to meeting the general qualifications for a senior postdoctoral position, including successful completion of research projects in international research groups, relevant scientific publications, and experience as speaker at international conferences, candidates should have:
- Strong teamwork and communication skills, with fluency in English.
- A deep interest in mentoring and supporting early-career researchers in developing their professional competence and independence in a committed manner.
- A research program that aligns with but complements the research conducted at MPP.
Ideal candidates should have profound knowledge in one or more of the following areas, and a strong interest in creating interdisciplinary connections between them:
- Quantum field theory (e.g. including but not limited to conformal field theory, QFT in curved space, AdS/CFT correspondence, scattering amplitudes in gauge theories);
- Theoretical particle physics (e.g. calculation of cross-sections for LHC processes, non-perturbative physics);
- Theoretical cosmology/astrophysics (e.g. gravitational wave physics, large-scale structure, cosmological correlators);
- Mathematics relevant to scattering amplitudes (e.g. combinatorics, positive geometry, applied mathematics and computer algebra, special functions in quantum field theory).