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Updates:

Thursday, Dec 18th 2014 Aachen (W1) accepted, short list in Geneva.
Tuesday, Dec 9th 2014 We are now testing an RSS feed of this page.
Monday, Dec 8th 2014 Hamburg (W3) offered and accepted. Aachen (W1) offered.
Friday, November 28th 2014 Mainz W3 accepted, (and consequently) TUM declined
Monday, October 27th 2014 Aachen W3 accepted
Tuesday, October 21st 2014 Shortlist Stavanger, 2013 NBI position filled

2013/2014 HEP Faculty Jobs:

Aachen (W3, Theoretical Astrophysics) [28.2.14]
Short List:
Michael Kachelriess (University of Trondheim)
Karl Mannheim (University of Wuerzburg)
Anupam Mazumdar (Lancaster University)
Werner Rodejohann (MPI Heidelberg)
Julien Lesgourgues (EPFL & CERN)
(+ two more people who do not want to be named)
Offered To:
Julien Lesgourgues (accepted)
Aachen (W2, Theoretical Particle Physics) [31.3.14]
Short List:
Farvah Mahmoudi
Johannes Henn
Michael Spannowsky
(+three more persons who have asked not to be named)

Aachen (W1, Theoretical Particle Physics, without tenure) [31.3.14]
Short List:
Julien Baglio
Lorenzo Basso
Felix Brummer
Claudia Hagedorn
Jamie Tattersall
Offered To:
Jamie Tattersall (accepted)
Amsterdam (assistant/associate professor in String Theory/High Energy Physics) [15.12.12]
Short List:
Francesco Benini
Guido Festuccia
Johannes Henn
Diego Hofman
Sungjay Lee
Sameer Murthy
(one more person)
Offered To:
Diego Hoffman (accepted)
Amsterdam (Assistant Professor in Theoretical Particle Physics, with specialization in Particle Phenomenology) [1.3.13]
Short List:
Offered To:
Wouter Waalewijn (accepted)
Humboldt Univ. Berlin (DESY funded professorship)
Short List:
Offered to:
Bergen ([assistant] professor in Theoretical Particle Physics) [1.2.13]
Short List (ranked):
1. Joern Kersten
2. Are Raklev
3. Werner Rodejohann
4. Walter Winter
Offered To:
Joern Kersten (accepted)
CERN (5 years) [1.4.14]
Short List:

NBI Copenhagen (Associate professorship in Phenomenology) [18.3.13]
Short List:
Werner Rodejohann (MPI Heidelberg)
Matthew Luzum (Montreal)
...?
Offered To:
Michael Trott (accepted)
NBI Copenhagen (Associate professorship in Theoretical Particle Physics) [2.11.14]
Short List:

Geneva (mathematically oriented [field] theorist, not necessarily condensed matter) [31.3.14]
Short List:
Valentina Forini
Dmitri Ivanov
Andreas Karch
Susanne Reffert
Julian Sonner
Alberto Zafferoni
(+one more person)

Graz (Tenure Track) [28.8.13]
Short List:
Szabolcs Borsanyi (Wuppertal)
Falk Bruckmann (Regensburg)
Stephan Durr (Julich/Wuppertal)
Kurt Langfeld (Plymouth)
Axel Maas (Jena) (#2)
Jan Pawlowski (Heidelberg) (#1)
Peter Petreczky (BNL)
Andreas Schmitt (Vienna)
Offered To:
Jan Pawlowski (declined)
Axel Maas (accepted)
Hamburg / DESY (Nachfolge Fredenhagen)
Short List:
J. Plefka (Berlin)
R. Britto (Saclay)
G. Arutyunov (Utrecht)
S. Weinzierl (Mainz)
J. Teschner (Hamburg)
J. Erdmenger (München)
J. Henn (Princeton)
S. Hollands (Cardiff)
Offered To:
G. Arutyunov (Utrecht) (accepted)
Hamburg (W3 Theoretical Particle Cosmology) [15.8.13]
Short List:
Offered To:
Geraldine Servant (accepted)
Karlsruhe (Astro) (W3) [28.2.12]
Short List:
Offered To:
Julia Becker Tjus (declined)
Karlsruhe/KIT (E14) [30.9.13]
Short List:
Monika Blanke
Heidi Rzehak
Simone Marzani
Werner Rodejohann
Christian Schwinn
Michael Trott
Stefano Morisi
Offered To:
Monika Blanke (accepted)
Leuven (Strings, assistant-full prof. dep. on candidate) [6/13.3.14]
Short List:
Nikolay Bobev
Monica Guica
Offered To:
Nikolay Bobev (Perimeter Inst.) (accepted)
Lyon (Assistant Professor in Theoretical High Energy Physics) [10.3.14]
Short List:
1. Guido Festuccia
2. Stefan Hohenegger
3. Davide Cassani
4. David Andriot

Offered To:
Guido Festuccia (declined)
Stefan Hohenegger (accepted)
Mainz, Prisma Cluster of Excellence (2xW2) (The expermimentalists get W3) [1.3.13]
Short List lattice:
Christian Hoelbling (Wuppertal)
Harvey Meyer (Mainz)
Stefan Schaefer (CERN)
Andrea Shindler (CERN)
Brian Tiburzi (City College New York)
Marc Wagner (Frankfurt)
Andre Walker-Loud (LBNL)

Short List pheno:
Monika Blanke (CERN)
Gero von Gersdorff (Barcelona)
Joern Kersten (DESY)
Joachim Kopp (MPI Heidelberg)
Oleg Lebedev (DESY)
Heidi Rzehak (CERN)
David Straub (Mainz)
...

Offered to: (lattice)
Harvey Meyer

Offered to: (pheno)
Joachim Kopp (MPI Heidelberg) (accepted)

Mainz (W2) [1.3.2014]
Short List:
Suchita Kulkarni
Giuliano Panico
Kalliopi Petraki
Michael Rauch
Pedro Schwaller
David Straub
Andreas Weiler
Jure Zupan
(+two more persons who asked not to be listed)
Mainz (W3) [31.3.2014]
Short List:
Burkhard Eden (Humboldt U)
Johanna Erdmenger (Max Planck München)
Valentina Forini (Humboldt U.)
Stefan Fredenhagen (Albert Einstein Institute - Max Planck Golm)
Johannes Henn (IAS Princeton)
Jörg Teschner (DESY Hamburg)
(+one more person)
Offered to:
Johannes Henn (accepted)
LMU München (W2, 6years/tenure track) [31.5.14]
Short List:
TU München (W3, Associate Professor) [10.10.13]
Short List:
Pierpaolo Mastrolia (MPI Munich)
Margarete Muehlleitner (KIT Karlsruhe)
Jure Zupan
Michael Spannowsky
Andi Weiler
Roberto Pittau
Johannes Henn (IAS Princeton)
(+at least one more person)
Offered to:
Johannes Henn (declined)
Odense (Associate Professorship in Lattice Gauge Theory) [28.1.13]
Short List:
Ari Hietanen (CP3-Odense)
Axel Maas (Jena)
Michele Della Morte (Mainz)
Christian Schmidt (Bielefeld)
Offered to:
Michele Della Morte (accepted)
Siegen (W2) [15.9.2013]
Short List:
Guido Bell (Oxford)
Monika Blanke (CERN)
Christoph Bobeth (TUM)
Alexander Lenz (Durham)
Susanne Westhoff (Pittsburgh)
(+some more people)
Stavanger (Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics) [?]
Short List:
1) Gerasimos Rigopoulos
2) Aleski Kurkela
3) Chiara Arina
4) Tomas Brauner
5) Rhiannon Gwyn
Offered to:
Stockholm/Nordita (Assistant Professor, non-tenure) [1.1.2014]
Short List:
1. Matthias Kaminski (Seattle)
2. Waldemar Schulgin (ULB)
Offered to:
Matthias Kaminski (declined) (→ Alabama)
Tübingen (W3) [15.1.2013]
Short List:
Sabine Andergassen (Wien)
Mu-Chun Chen (UC Irvine)
Maria Daghofer (Dresden)
Johanna Erdmenger (München)
Ewelina Hankiewicz (Würzburg)
Barbara Jäger (Mainz)
Corinna Kollath (Genf)
Offered To:
Barbara Jäger (accepted)
Uppsala (Senior lecturer in Theoretical High Energy physics) [20.5.2013]
Short List (ranked):
Monica Guica
Henrik Johansson
Andrei Parnachev
Aleksi Vuorinen
Guido Festuccia
Burkhard Eden
Uppsala (10 x Assistant Professor positions in any field of science or technology) [23.6.2013]
Short Listed:
Henrik Johansson (Gothenburg)
Pat Scott (McGill)
+ 1 hep-ex + 22 non-hep
Offered To:
Pat Scott
Utrecht (Full Professor in Theoretical High Energy Physics) [1.8.2014]
Short List:
Utrecht (Assistant Professor in String/Theoretical Cosmology) [15.3.2013]
Short List:
Mark Jackson
Enrico Pajer
Subodh Patil
Rafael Porto
Gianmassimo Tasinato
Gonzalo Torroba
Alexander Vikman
Ivonne Zavala
Offered To:
Enrico Pajer (accepted)
Vienna (University Assistant, tenure track) [21.6.2013]
Short List:
Nicolas Greiner (MPP Munich)
Beatrix Hiesmayr (Vienna)
Luminita Mihaila (Karlsruhe)
Heidi Rzehak (Freiburg)
Zeuthen (Tenure track) [12.1.2013]
Short List:
...
Offered To:
Peter Marquard (accepted)
Zürich (Theoretical Astrophysics and Cosmology, "Senior") [30.9.2014]
Short List:

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