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Updates:

Friday December 18th 2020 Another name in Mainz. Merry Christmas!
Thursday December 3rd 2020 Previously unlisted positions in Leipzig and Mainz, Amsterdam and Köln offered and accepted.
Friday November 20th 2020 New position in Regensburg, a second name in Heidelberg
Tuesday November 2rd 2020 Short list for TU München / ORIGINS, new round in Hannover, two more names for Münster.
Thursday Sep 17th 2020 First name in Wuppertal.
Wednesday Sep 16th 2020 Two more names in Münster.
Thursday Sep 10th 2020 First name in Heidelberg.
Wednesday Sep 9th 2020 First names in Münster, new position at KIT.
Friday August 14th 2020 First name in Jena, Freiburg offered and accepted.
Friday August 7th 2020 New position at EPFL Lausanne.
Thursday July 23rd 2020 New position at MPI München.
Monday June 29th 2020 New position at TU München / ORIGINS.
Friday June 12th 2020 New position in Münster.
Friday May 29th 2020 New position in Nijmegen (Radboud).
Tuesday May 12th 2020 New position in Heidelberg.
Friday April May 8th 2020 Dortmund W1 offered and accepted, Karlsruhe and Siegen accepted.
Friday April 17th 2020 Offer in Freiburg.
Monday March 30th 2020 New position in Aachen.
Saturday March 28th 2020 Hopefully all of you are OK! Two more names for Köln, shortlist for new position at PSI, new tenure track in Wuppertal.
Thursday March 5th 2020 First name for a previously unlisted position in Köln.
Tuesday February 18th 2020 Uppsala accepted.
Monday February 10th 2020 Short list for Graz, first name in Utrecht.
Monday January 27th 2020 Bielefeld taken, two previously unlisted positions in Graz and Jena (deadlines passed),
a very vague rumor at GSI, and a loose end in Regensburg tied up.
Wednesday January 15th 2020 Some more names in Freiburg.
Friday January 10th 2020 Another attempt to clear up the various DESY positions
Thursday January 9th 2020 DESY 5 year cleared up; list for Amsterdam
Tuesday January 7th 2020 Happy New Year!
DESY 5 year offered; we have been promised rumors about Utrecht.
Thursday December 12th 2019 Some more names in Bielefeld.
Tuesday December 3rd 2019 Lots of people asking not be listed for Amsterdam and Bonn.
Short list for previously unlisted W1 in Hannover.
Tuesday November 12th 2019 Offer in Karlsruhe
Tuesday Sep 10th 2019 New position in Amsterdam, short list at GSI and DESY, Bonn tries again.
Thursday July 18th 2019 Offer in Siegen.
Friday July 12th 2019 First name in Freiburg.

RWTH Aachen (Big Data, tenure track W1 to W2) [30.4.20]
Short List:
Offered to:
Amsterdam (Tenure Track) [15.10.19]
Short List:
Ilaria Brivio (Heidelberg)
Felix Kahlhoefer (Aachen)
Francesco Riva (Geneve)
Javi Serra (TUM)
Eleni Vryonidou (CERN)
Tevong You (CERN)
(at least one more person known to us)
Offered to:
Jordy de Vries (accepted)
Bielefeld (W2, tenure track to W3) [31.10.18]
Short List:
Gergely Endrodi
Anthony Francis
Benjamin Jaeger
Alexander Rothkopf
Denes Sexty
Lisa Zeune
Offered to:
Gergely Endrödi (accepted)
Bonn (W3) [15.02.18]
Short List:

"... die Fachgruppe Physik/Astronomie das Berufungsverfahren zum Ende des Sommersemesters 2018
mit dem Vorschlag einer 3er-Liste abgeschlossen hatte. Leider ist die Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche
Fakultät, der Fakultätsrat, diesem Listenvorschlag nicht gefolgt. Die Professur soll nun erneut
mit modifizierter Schwerpunktsetzung ausgeschrieben werden."
Bonn (W3, 2nd try) [18.10.19]
Short List:
Offered to:
DESY (5 year junior staff)
Short List:
Fady Bishara
Elina Fuchs
Pier Paolo Giardino
Matthias Schlaffer
Tim Stefaniak
Eleni Vryonidou
Offered to:
Fady Bishara (accepted)
DESY (2 junior staff positions)
Short List:
 Offered to:
Bibhushan Shakya
Dortmund (Theoretical Flavor Physics and the phenomenology of new physics, W1) [3.4.19]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Emmanuel Stamou (accepted)
Freiburg (Theoretical Particle Physics, W1) [7.6.19]
Short List:
Giorgio Arcadi
Claudia Hagedorn
Kai Schmitz
Stefan Vogl
...
 Offered to:
Julia Harz (declined)
Stefan Vogl (accepted)
Graz (Lattice, Laufbahnprofessur) [4.9.19]
Short List:
Debasish Banerjee
Gergely Endrodi
Anthony Francis
Marina Marinkovic
Daniel Mohler
Denes Sexty
Tin Sulejmanpasic
Offered to:
GSI (Darmstadt) (Staff scientist) [22.3.19]
Short List:
Stefan Flörchinger
Maxwell Hansen
Marlene Nahrgang
Gergely Endrödi
Sören Schlichting
Vladimir Skokov
Daniel Mohler
John Bulava
Eero Aleksi Kurkela
Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira
Offered to: somebody with a six letter last name?
poster wants us to confirm rumor before posting it...
Hannover (W1 HEP with cold atoms) [15.8.19] New Round [15.9.20]
Short List:
J. Smirnov
E. Fuchs
M. Schlaffer (?)
J. Eby (?)
Offered to:
Heidelberg (W3 Cosmology/Particle) [5.6.20]
Short List:
Julia Harz
Valerie Domcke
 Offered to:
Humboldt (Berlin) (Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Field and String Theory, W2) [31.12.18]
Short List:
Murad Alim
Jacob Bourjaily
Johannes Brodel
Claude Duhr
Chiara Toldo
Offered to:
Jena (QFT, W3) [30.9.19]
Short List:
Pedro Liendo
 Offered to:
KIT (Karlsruhe) (Tenure track, W1) [15.10.20]
Short List:
Köln (W1 tenure track W2) [2.2.20]
Short List:
Chiara Toldo
Gabor Sarosi
Claire Zukowski
...
Offered to:
Nele Callebaut (accepted)
EPFL Lausanne (Faculty, tenure track or higher) [20.10.20]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Leipzig (W2) [15.10.20]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Mainz (W2, cosmology) [2.11.20]
Short List:
Elina Fuchs
Kai Schmitz
...
 Offered to:
MPI München (TVÖD 15, initially 5 years) [31.7.20]
Short List:
 Offered to:
TU München / ORIGINS cluster (W2 tenure track W3) [31.8.20]
Short List:
Elina Fuchs (Fermilab Chicago)
Enrico Herrmann (CalTech)
Matthew von Hippel (Niels Bohr Academy Kopenhagen)
Martin Hoferichter (Albert Einstein Center Bern)
Gustavo Marques-Tavares (University of Maryland)
Felix Ringer (UC Berkeley)
Emmanuel Stamou (EPFL)
Lorenzo Tancredi (University of Oxford)
Offered to:
Münster (W1 tenure track W2) [10.7.20]
Short List:
Jason Aebischer
Anthony Francis
Lena Funcke
Felix Ringer
Kai Schmitz
Franziska Hagelstein
Martin Hoferichter
...?
Offered to:
Radboud University, Nijmegen (tenure track) [30.6.20]
Short List:
Offered to:
PSI (Link already offline)
Short List:
Andreas Crivellin
Matteo Fael
Martin Hoferichter
Giovanni Marco Pruna
Peter Stoffer
(at least one more person)
Offered to:
Regensburg (W1 tenure track to W2) [30.11.2020]
Short List:
Offered to:
Siegen (W3) [8.11.18]
Short List:
Danny van Dyk
Christoph Englert
Anna Kulesza
Alexander Lenz
Michael Spannowsky
David Straub
Offered to:
Alexander Lenz (accepted)
Trondheim ("Broadly theoretical Astroparticle Physics", Tenure) [17.3.19]
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:
Dmytro Volin (accepted)
Uppsala (senior lecturer) [17.06.2018]
Short List:
Heidi Rzehak
Christoph Englert
Roman Paschenik
(at least one more person)
Offered to:
Christoph Englert (declined)
Utrecht (tenure track) [?]
Short List:
Djuna Croon
Vienna (Tenure track) [31.3.2019]
Short List:
Simon Plaetzer
Massimiliano Procura
Heidi Rzehak
Marek Schoenherr
Marius Wiesemann
(+ at least one more person)
 Offered to:
Wuppertal (W1 tenure track W2) [30.4.20]
Short List:
Bastian Brandt
Offered to:

Germans abroad

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

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