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string/math physics job markets; no warranty is expressed or implied.

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All the information that we have (and that we have not been asked to withhold) is on this page.

Updates:

Thursday December 13th 2018 New position in Karlsruhe.
Thursday November 2nd 2018 Odense and Wuppertal accepted.
Tuesday September 25th 2018 New position in Bielefeld and Siegen, fellowships in Radboud
Monday September 10th 2018 Bplaced temporarily shut us down due to inactivity. Fixed.
Both Lund positions offered.
Thursday July 26th 2018 Humboldt news.
Wednesday July 4th 2018 Short list in Odense
Tuesday May 29th 2018 Great, finally some rumors again!
DIAS accepted, short list DESY, MPI accepted (x3), TUM update, short list Bonn
Friday May 18th 2018 Update Regensburg, a new position in Uppsala.
Sadly, almost all the emails that reach us these days are from people not wishing to be named.
Maybe the bell has finally been rung for this page...
Friday Feb 16th 2018 2nd position at MPI, update Mainz
Monday Jan 22nd 2018 2nd short List Uppsala (another position with the same deadline)
Monday Jan 15th 2018 Happy New Year! Some Cleanup.
Short List Uppsala, New position in Bonn, MPI München offer confirmed.
Monday Dec 4th 2017 Finally some rumors again! MPI München.
Friday Nov 24th 2017 Another position in Lund, this time permament.
Please submit rumors, this is a rumor mill!
Wednesday Nov 15th 2017 First Name in Mainz.
Thursday Nov 2nd 2017 New position in Regensburg.
Monday Oct 16th 2017 New position in Mainz.
Wednesday Oct 4th 2017 New position in Lund.

Humboldt Univ. Berlin (in English) (together with DESY, Lattice W2) [05.08.16]
Short List:
Gergely Endrodi (Frankfurt)
Marina Marinkovic (CERN/Trinity)
Michele Della Morte (Odense)
Alberto Ramos (CERN)
Marc Wagner (Frankfurt)
(+ at least three more people which are known to us)
Offered to:
Agostino Patella (CERN) (accepted)
Humboldt Univ. Berlin (W2) [??.04.17]
Short List:
Sophia Carola Borowka
Ramona Groeber
 Accepted:
Ramona Groeber
Bielefeld (W2, tenure track to W2) [31.10.18]
Short List:
Offered to:
Bonn (W3) [15.02.18]
Short List:
Michael Spannowsky
Timo Weigand
(five more people known to us)
Offered to:
DESY (5 year junior staff)
Short List:
Admir Greljo
Ramona Gröber
Giuliano Panico
Florian Staub
Tim Stefaniak
Offered to:
(somebody known to us)
DIAS (Odense) (Assistant professor) [14.02.17]
Short List:
Aurora Meroni
Masanori Hanada
Benjamin Jäger
Tin Sulejmanpasic
?
Offered to:
Benjamin Jäger (accepted)
Jena (Gravitational Physics, W2) [27.3.17]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Sebastiano Bernuzzi (accepted)
Karlsruhe (Theoretical Particle Physics, W3) [28.1.19]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Lund (Associate Senior Lecturer, tenure-track) [13.11.17]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Stefan Prestel
Lund (Senior Lecturer, permanent) [18.12.17]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Rikkert Frederix
Mainz (Mathematical Physics, W2) [22.10.17]
Short List:
Timm Wrase (Wien)
Marco Zagermann
(One more person known to us)
Offered to:
(Somebody known to us)
MPI München (Two positions!)

Offered to:
Johannes Henn (JGU Mainz) (accepted)
Giulia Zanderighi (CERN/Oxford) (accepted)
MPI München (?)

Offered to:
Uli Haisch (accepted)
TU München (W2 tenure track) [9.3.17]
Short List:
Markus Schulze (HU Berlin)
Elisabetta Furlan
Rafael Porto Pereira (ICTP)
?
 Offered to:
(somebody outside HEP)
Odense (Associate Professorship) [4.2.18]
Short List:
Astrid Eichhorn
Claudia Hagedorn
Heidi Rzehak
David Straub
Offered to:
Astrid Eichhorn (accepted)
(Two fellowships, tenure track) [30.9.18] (sorry, we were notified only today, i.e. 25th!)
Short List:
Offered to:
Regensburg (W2, lattice) [30.11.2017]
Short List:
Marina Marinkovic (Dublin)
Offered to:
Siegen (W3) [8.11.18]
Short List:
Offered to:
Uppsala (Tenure Track) [15.04.2017]
Short List:
1. Dmytro Volin
2. Manuela Kulaxizi
3. Oliver Schlotterer
4. Dionysios Anninos
5. Andrei Parnachev
6. Paolo Benincasa
7. Marius de Leeuw
8. Ioannis Papadimitriou
9. Christoph Keller
10. Pavel Putrov
Offered to:
Uppsala (second position) [15.04.2017]
Short List:
1. Manuela Kulaxizi
2. Dionysios Anninos
3. Andrei Parnachev
4. Paolo Benincasa
5. Ioannis Papadimitriou
6. Christoph Keller
Offered to:
Uppsala (senior lecturer) [17.06.2018]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Wuppertal (W2, lattice) [23.7.2017]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Borsanyi Szabolcs (accepted)

Germans abroad

Joachim Kopp (Mainz) → CERN
Martin Spinrath → National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)

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