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Tuesday, Dec 15th, 2009

NORDITA, MPI, Bielefeld


Monday, Dec 7th, 2009

Shortlist for second position in Mainz,
NORDITA update


Monday, Oct 26th, 2009

Second position at NORDITA, filled.
Heidelberg accepted.


Tuesday, Oct 20th, 2009

Minor updates Aachen/Mainz


Tuesday, Oct 13th, 2009

Humboldt offer, second position in Mainz


Tuesday, Oct 6th, 2009

Two new positions in Zürich



2008/2009 HEP Faculty Jobs:

Institution (position) [deadline]
Short List:

Offered To:

Aachen (particle, 2 positions) (W1) [31.10.08]
Short List:
Carola Berger (MIT)
Torsten Bringmann (Stockholm)
Jose A. R. Cembranos (Minnesota)
Michael Czakon (Würzburg)
Motoi Endo (CERN)
Björn Garbrecht (Wisconsin)
Pavel F. Perez (Wisconsin)
Pasquale Serpico (Fermilab)
Frank Steffen (MPI-München)

Offered To:
Torsten Bringmann (declined)
Michael Czakon (accepted)
Björn Garbrecht (accepted)
Aachen (astro/cosmo) (W1) [15.03.08]
Short List:
Torsten Bringmann (Stockholm)
Björn Garbrecht (Wisconsin)
Werner Rodejohann (MPI-Heidelberg)
Martin Sloth (Aarhus)
Ricard Tomas (Valencia)
Yvonne Wong (MPI-München)
...

Offered To:
Yvonne Wong (accepted)
Bern (successor to Peter Hasenfratz) [15.11.09]
Short List:
Bochum (W3, hadrons/particles, Goeke replacement) [30.09.2008]
Short List:
W. Hammer (Bonn)
M. Burkhardt (Las Crucas)
E. Swanson (Pittsburgh)
G. Bali (Regensburg)
N. Brambilla (Milano/Munich)
F. Bruckmann (Regensburg)
M. Diehl (DESY Hamburg)
E. Epelbaum (Juelich/Bonn)

Offered To:
???
DESY (Helmholtz Fellow, Monte Carlo, tenure-track) [15.06.08]
Short List:
Francesco Hautmann(Oxford)
Zoltan Nagy (CERN)
Malgorzata Worek (Karlsruhe, ITP & Silesia)

Offered To:
Zoltan Nagy (accepted)
Göttingen (particle-astro) (W3) [15.04.09]
Short List:
Laura Covi (DESY)
Michael Kraemer (RWTH Aachen)
Apostolos Pilaftsis (University of Manchester)
Andre H. Hoang (MPI für Physik, München)
Martin Bojowald (The Pennsylvania State University)
Herbert Dreiner (Universität Bonn)
Sergei Winitzki (LMU München)

Offered To:
Hamburg (pheno) (W2) [11.09.2008]
Short List:
Jens Erler (Erlangen)
Sven Moch (DESY-Zeuthen)
Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (Durham)
Christian Schwanenberger (Manchester)

Yep, chosen candidate!
Gudrid Moortgat-Pick (accepted)
Hamburg (astro) (W1) [23.05.2008]
Short List:
Julia Becker (Dortmund)
Alessandro Mirizzi (MPI-München)
Thomas Schwetz (CERN)
Pasquale Serpico (Fermilab)

Offered To:
Pasquale Serpico (declined)
Alessandro Mirizzi (accepted)
Heidelberg (Schmidt replacement, astro/cosmo) (W3) [15.07.2008]
Short List:
Luca Amendola (Rome Observatory)
Laura Covi (DESY)
Michael Doran (Heidelberg)
Constantinos Skordis (Perimeter)
Nikolaos Tetradis (Athens)
Carsten van de Bruck (Sheffield)

Offered To:
Luca Amendola (accepted)
Karlsruhe (W1, tenure-track to W3) [01.10.2008]
Short List:
Carola Berger (MIT)
Tobias Huber (Aachen)
Olaf Kittel (Bonn)
Margarete Mühlleitner (Annecy)
Heidi Rzehak (PSI)
York Schröder (Bielefeld)

Offered To:
Margarete Mühlleitner (accepted)
Mainz (W1) [20.06.09]
Short List:
Jose A. R. Cembranos (Minnesota)
Pavel Fileviez Perez (Wisconsin)
Barbara Jäger (Würzburg U.)
Heidi Rzehak (Karlsruhe U., ITP)
Ulrich Haisch (Mainz U., Inst. Phys.)
Oliver Brein (Freiburg)
Radja Boughezal (Zürich U.)
Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)
Walter Winter (Würzburg)

Offered To:
Mainz II (W1) [27.08.09]
Short List:
Lucia Masetti (Bonn)
Matthias Schott (CERN)
Gabriele Honecker (Leuven)
Oliver Brein (Freiburg)
Olaf Kittel (Granada)
Barbara Jaeger (Wuerzburg)
Sandro Uccirati (Karlsruhe)
Bastian Kubis (Bonn)
Falk Bruckmann (Regensburg)
Karsten Koeneke (Hamburg)
Miriam Fritsch (Mainz)
Florian Gmeiner (Amsterdam)
Offered To:
MPI München (Staff, permanent) [30.9.2009]
Short List:
Carola F. Berger (MIT)
NORDITA (Asst. Prof., untenured) [15.11.2008] (now two positions!)
Short List:
Claudia de Rham (Perimeter)
Troels Harmark (Niels Bohr)
Gabriele Honecker (Leuven)
Sabine Hossenfelder (Perimeter)
Thorsten Renk (Jyväskylä)

Offered To:
Sabine Hossenfelder (accepted)
Troels Harmark (accepted)
NORDITA (Prof., tenured) [03.11.2008]
Short List:
Bernard Nienhuis (Amsterdam) (?)
Matthias Staudacher
Konstantin Zarembo
Offered To:
Matthias Staudacher (declined)
Konstantin Zarembo
Siegen (E14, permanent) (upgraded to A13) [20.03.09]
Short List:

Offered To:
Tobias Huber (Aachen) (accepted)
Würzburg (W3, Rückl replacement) [10.04.09]
Short List:
Robert Harlander (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Ansgar Denner (Paul Scherrer Institut, Villingen)
Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY-Zeuthen)
Michael Krämer (RWTH Aachen)
Andre Hoang (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München)
James Wells (CERN)
Michael Czakon (RWTH Aachen)

Offered To:
Zürich (Senior Research Associate) [15.12.09]
Short List:


2008/2009 String/Math/Formal/Other Physics Faculty Jobs:

Bielefeld (math. physics) (W2) [20.03.09]
Short List:
Eric Lutz, Universitaet Augsburg
Gernot Akemann, Brunel University (UK)
Michael Kastner, National Institute for Theoretical Physics Stellenbosch (South Africa)
Wojciech De Roeck, ETH Zuerich and Universitaet Leuven (Belgium)
Michael Flohr, Universitaet Hannover
Heinz-Peter Breuer, Universitaet Freiburg
Tobias Kuna, Reading University (UK)
Harold Steinacker, Universitaet Wien

Offered To:
Gernot Akemann
Hamburg (string) (W1) [?]
Short List:
Rutger Boels (Niels Bohr)
Timo Weigand (SLAC)
Gianluca Calcagni (Penn State)
Florian Gmeiner (NIKHEF)
Ioannis Papadimitriou (Swansea)
Susanne Reffert (Heidelberg)

Offered To:
unknown (declined)
Rutger Boels (accepted)
Humboldt (space, time & matter) [15.10.08]
Short List:
Ron Donagi
Matthias Staudacher
Nikolas Beisert
Ralph Blumenhagen
Michael Gutperle
Joerg Teschner

Offered To:
Matthias Staudacher
Heidelberg (string) (A13, tenured) [30.10.2008]
Short List:
Thomas Grimm (Bonn)
Michael Haack (München)
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (Caltech)
Timo Weigand (SLAC)
...

Offered To:
Sakura Schafer-Nameki (declined)
Timo Weigand (accepted)
Uppsala (Associate professor/Senior Lecturer) [25.9.2009]
Short List:

Zürich ([Assistant] Professor of Mathematical Physics [15.12.09]
Short List:


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