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Wednesday, January 26th, 2010

New position in Zürich.


Friday, January 21st, 2010

TUM offered, Münster, DESY accepted.
New position in Nijmegen.


Wednesday, December 7th, 2010

Shortlist Göttingen
New position at PSI

Fortunecity is giving us problems (downtime), we might have to move ...


Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Shortlist Hamburg; MPI, DESY accepted


Monday, November 18th, 2010

Another W1 in Mainz filled


Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Short list Siegen, Zürich declined, offered


2009/2010 HEP Faculty Jobs:

Amsterdam (Tenure-track/Tenured, several positions) [1.12.10]
Short List:
Basel, Tenure-track Assistant Professorship
Offered To:
S. Antusch
Bern (successor to Peter Hasenfratz) [15.11.09]
Short List:
M.Laine
H.B.Meyer
P.Romatschke
U.Wenger
J. Plefka
S. Sint
(+ two more persons)
CERN (Tenured Senior Theoretical Physicist) [June 2010]
Short List:
DESY (permanent) [15.3.10]
Short List:
O. Brein (Freiburg)
A. Kulesza (Aachen)
J. Reuter (Freiburg)
A. Weiler (CERN)
 Offered To:
A. Weiler (accepted)
J. Reuter (accepted)
(There were two positions.)
Dortmund (W2) [31.1.10]
Short List:
Andreas Weiler (#1)
Stefan Antusch
Stephan Huber
Joerg Jaeckel
Jürgen Reuter
Offered To:
Frankfurt (W1, lattice) [15.10.10]
Short List:
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:
Laura Covi (DESY) (accepted)
Göttingen (Helmholtz with Tenure Track-Option, W1 -> W2) [8.11.10]
Short List: Felix Brümmer (DESY Hamburg)
Achilleas Lazopoulos (ETH Zurich)
Thomas Reiter ( Nikhef, Amsterdam)
Christian Sturm (MPI, Mnchen)
Steffen Schumann (University of Heidelberg)
Frank Tackmann (MIT, Cambridge)
Hamburg (W2) [7.10.10]
Short List:
Martin Gorbahn (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
Joerg Jaeckel (Durham University)
Malgorzata Worek (Bergische Universitat Wuppertal)
Jochen Zahn (Leibniz Universitaet Hannover)
Christian Sturm (MPI, Muenchen)
Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY-Zeuthen)
Ingo Schienbein (LPSC, Grenoble)
Jens Erler (Mexico University)
Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH, Zuerich)
Heidelberg (Computers/Physics, A13) [22.4.10]
Short List:
 Offered To:
solid-state physicist (accepted)
Heidelberg (W3) [6.1.11]
Short List:
 Offered To:
Leipzig (W3) [22.11.10]
Short List:
Leuven [30.9.10]
Short List:
Andres Collinucci (LMU, München)
Paul Koerber (Leuven)
Thomas Van Riet (Uppsala)
+5 other people
Lund (Associate Senior University Lecturer) [6.12.10]
Short List:
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:
Ulrich Haisch (accepted)
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:
Gabriele Honecker (accepted)
Mainz III (W1)
Offered To:
Radja Boughezal (declined)
Barbara Jaeger (accepted)
MPI München (Staff, permanent) [30.9.2009]
Short List:
Carola F. Berger (MIT)
Jürgen Reuter (Freiburg)
Gudrun Heinrich (Durham)
...
Offered To:
Gudrun Heinrich (accepted)
TU München (W3, successor to A. Buras) [15.03.2010]
Short List:
James Wells (CERN)
Michael Krämer (RWTH Aachen)
Ulrich Nierste (Karlsruhe U.)
Stefan Antusch (MPI München)
Michael Czakon (RWTH Aachen)
Andre Hoang (MPI München)
Laura Covi (DESY)
Two more seminars organized by a member of the comission (candidates?):
Martin Beneke (Aachen)
Gino Isidori (INFN)
Offered To:
Martin Beneke (Aachen)
Münster (W3) [30.4.2010]
Short List:
Michael Klasen
Stefan Antusch
Elena Bratkovskaya
Johanna Erdmenger
Christian S. Fischer
Peter Petreczky
Werner Rodejohann
Lorenz von Smekal
Offered To:
Michael Klasen (accepted)
Nijmegen (Full Prof.) [28.2.2011]
Short List:
NORDITA (Prof., tenured) [03.11.2008]
Short List:
Bernard Nienhuis (Amsterdam) (?)
Matthias Staudacher
Konstantin Zarembo
Offered To:
Matthias Staudacher (declined)
Konstantin Zarembo
Odense (Tenure Track) [15.4.2010]
Short List:
PSI (phenomenology) [28.2.2011]
Short List:
Regensburg (joint with Jülich, lattice; W2) [open until filled]
Short List:
Jochen Heitger
Christian Hölbling
Kurt Langfeld
Dirk Pleiter
Luigi Scorzato
Stefan Solbrig
Siegen (W2) [12.7.2010]
Short List:
Stefan Antusch (MPI München)
Thorsten Feldmann (TU München)
Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder (ETH Zürich)
Martin Gorbahn (TU München)
Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)
Alexander Lenz (U Regensburg)
Jürgen Reuter (U Edinburgh)
Frank Tackmann (MIT Boston)
Vienna (particle) [2008]
Short List:
See 2008 rumor page
Offered To:
Andre Hoang (MPI Munich) (accepted)
Vienna (tenure track, not necessarily particle physics) [10.9.2010]
Short List:
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:
Ansgar Denner (PSI) (accepted)
Zürich (Senior Research Associate) [15.12.09]
Short List:
Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Florence & Florence U.)
Giulia Zanderighi (Oxford U.)
Gudrun Heinrich (Durham U.)

Offered To:
Giulia Zanderighi (declined)
Massimiliano Grazzini
Zürich (Tenure track dep. on cand.) [30.4.2011]
Short List:

2009/2010 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
Uppsala (Associate professor/Senior Lecturer) [25.9.2009]
Short List:
Nadav Drukker
Bukhard Eden
Troels Harmark
Gabriele Honecker
Esko Keski-Vakkuri
Dimitrios Tsimpis

Offered To:
Ekso Keski-Vakkuri
Zürich ([Assistant] Professor of Mathematical Physics [15.12.09]
Offered To:Niklas Beisert (accepted)

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