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Updates:

Thursday, Jan 26th 2023 Another name for Dortmund. (We only withhold names when explicitely asked to do so. If names are missing in our lists, it means that we do not know about them.)
Thursday, Jan 19th 2023 Short list for Dortmund. Happy New Year!
Tuesday, Dec 20th 2022 Short list for Bern. Merry Christmas!
Sunday, Nov 13th 2022 2nd round in Heidelberg
(We have also received information about a position in Naples, but this is really not Germanic/Nordic anymore...)
Thursday, Nov 10th 2022 Shortlist in Freiburg
Monday, Oct 24th 2022 Shortlist for a previously unlisted position in Trento, offer in Pisa made and accepted.
Friday, Sep 9th 2022 And another position: Dortmund
Thursday, Sep 8th 2022 New position in Freiburg, ranked list in Pisa. There is also a short list for the INFN competition 23524/2021. Basel was accepted.
Monday, May 10th 2022 New position in Bern, offer for a previously unlisted W1 in Regensburg.
Friday, May 6th 2022 Ranking and offers for Bologna.
Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 Updates Ljubljana, Hannover.
Monday, May 2nd 2022 A rumor for Zeuthen (this time the lattice one), Ljubljana declined, Mainz offered and accepted.
Tuesday, Apr 19th 2022 Offer in Padova, rumors for Ljubljana.
Monday, March 28th 2022 Thursday's rumor was for the other Zeuthen job, rumors for a previously unlisted job in Basel.
Thursday, March 24th 2022 First name in Zeuthen, some northern Italian rumors from Turin, Padova and Bologna (x2). All four are 3-year tenure-track (RTDb) positions.
Monday, January 10th 2022 Happy new Year! Some clean-up of the list done.
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Nikhef offered and accepted, CERN offered and accepted.
Monday, December 20th 2021 Münster accepted (sorry about the delay due to technical problems on our side).
Friday, November 26th 2021 Karlsruhe accepted. (Change might not have been visible until Dec 3rd due to problems with upload.)
Friday, Oct 1st 2021 Search in Heidelberg will be picked up at a later date.
Wednesday, September 22nd 2021 New job at DESY Zeuthen.
Tuesday, September 7th 2021 München accepted, Münster not accepted but declined and offered again.
Wednesday, July 21st 2021 Another name in Heidelberg, Aachen will not be further pursued and filled.
Friday, July 16th 2021 New position at DESY Zeuthen, EPFL accepted.
Friday, July 2nd 2021 First name in Heidelberg.

RWTH Aachen (Big Data, tenure track W1 to W2) [30.4.20]
Short List:
Anja Butter
Pietro Vischia
...
Offered to:
"the advertised position will not be further pursued and filled"
Nikhef (Amsterdam) (Staff Physicist) [30.04.21]
Short List:
Gauthier Durieux
...
Offered to:
Melissa van beekveld (accepted)
Basel (Asistant Professorship in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology) [30.09.21]
Short List:
Fady Bishara
Elina Fuchs
Ennio Salvioni
...
Offered to:
Admir Greljo (accepted)
Bologna (2 positions, BSM physics with applications to neutrino and astroparticle physics) [3.11.21]
Short List: (ranking)
Vedran Brdar
Ilaria Brivio
Eleonora Di Valentino
Miguel Escudero Abenza
Elina Fuchs
Arsenii Titov
Sunny Vagnozzi
Luca Visinelli
+ 2 more persons
Offered to:
Filippo Sala
Ilaria Brivio
Bern (Junior/Associate/Senior) [1.9.22]
Short List:
Francesca Cuteri
Patrick Fritzsch
Franziska Hagelstein
Martin Hoferichter
Fernando Romero-Lopez
Alessandro Vichi
(+ 2 more persons, known to us)
Offered to:
Bonn (W3, 2nd try) [18.10.19]
Short List:
Offered to:
Claude Duhr (accepted)
CERN (Permanent Staff, theoretical astroparticle physics) [URL?, deadline?]
Short List:
Valerie Domcke
Joachim Kopp
Offered to:
Valerie Domcke (accepted)
DESY (5 years) [20.12.20]
Short List:
Tarek Anous
Offered to:
?
DESY Zeuthen (lattice, E14) [22.08.21]
Short List:
Offered to:
Jeremy Green
DESY Zeuthen (Phenomenology, E14) [20.10.21]
Short List:
Gauthier Durieux
Andrea Thamm
Offered to:
Dortmund (Theory, W2) [31.8.22]
Short List:
Jason Aebischer
Elina Fuchs
Florian Goertz
Emmanuel Stamou
Suchita Kulkarni
Stefan Vogl
Robert Ziegler
(+2 more persons known to us)
Offered to:
Freiburg (W3 with focus on Phenomenology) [31.8.22]
Short List:
Rikkert Frederix
Elina Fuchs
Alexander Huss
Frank Krauss
Andreas von Manteuffel
Heidi Rzehak
Marek Schönherr
Michael Trott
Marius Wiesemann
(+ two more persons)
Offered to:
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:
Elina Fuchs (accepted)
Heidelberg (W3 QFT/Cosmology, early succ. C. Wetterich) [16.5.21] [22.12.22] (2nd round)
Short List:
Offered to:
ISC Ljubljana [1.12.21]
Short List:
Elina Fuchs
Darius Faroughy
Richard Ruiz
Robert Ziegler
Lorenzo Ubaldi
Offered to:
Elina Fuchs (declined)
Lorenzo Ubaldi (accepted)
KIT (Karlsruhe) (Tenure track, W1) [15.10.20]
Short List:
Elina Fuchs
Yu-Dai Tsai
Fady Bishara
Sophie Renner
Felix Kling
Ilaria Brivio
Julia Harz
Offered to:
Felix Kahlhoefer (accepted)
EPFL Lausanne (Faculty, tenure track or higher) [20.10.20]
Short List:
Valerie Domcke
Chia-Hsien Shen
Offered to:
Victor Gorbenko (accepted)
Mainz (W2, cosmology) [2.11.20]
Short List:
Valerie Domcke
Elina Fuchs
Julia Harz
Kai Schmitz
...
Offered to:
Valerie Domcke (declined)
Julia Harz (accepted)
MPI München ("Group-Leader Position in Numerics, Algorithms, and IT Support", initially 5 years) [5.12.20]
Short List:
Frederic Dreyer
Stefan Kallweit
Philipp Maierhöfer
Ben Ruijl
Valentin Hirschi
Robert Schabinger
Mathieu Pellen
Simon Plätzer
Offered to:
Padova "Allegato 2 - ssd FIS/02 sc 02/A2" (Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions) [5.7.21]
Short List:
Fabio Apruzzi
Davide Cassani
Giuseppe Dibitetto
Fotios Farakos
Marco Fazzi
Simone Giacomelli
Seyedmorteza Hosseini
Pietro Longhi
Chiara Toldo
Offered to:
Fabio Apruzzi
Pisa (Tipo B / senior) [14.2.22]
Short List:
1 Zanusso Omar
2 Salvioni Ennio
3 Barducci Daniele
4 Fasiello Matteo
5 Meineri Marco
6 Logoteta Domenico
7 Matsedonskyi Oleksii
Offered to:
Omar Zanusso (accepted)
Regensburg (W1) [20.11.2020]
Short List:
Offered to:
Taushif Ahmed (Torino)
Regensburg (W3) (PDF) [15.5.2021]
Short List:
Offered to:
Trento (Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions) [21.4.2022]
Short List:
Emilio Bellini
Marco Crisostomi
M. R. F. (Matteo Raffaele Fasiello?)
M. F.
Alessia Benedetta Platania
Sunny Vagnozzi
Offered to:
Sunny Vagnozzi (accepted)
Turin (Theoretical Physics of Fundamental Interactions) [5.7.21]
Short List:
Fabio Apruzzi
Emilio Bellini
Giuseppe Bozzi
Andrea Cavaglia'
Giovanni Antonio Chirilli
Mattia Di Mauro
Ilia Musco
Daniele Musso
Stefano Negro
Lorenzo Sebastiani
Sunny Vagnozzi
Jacopo Viti
Itamar Yaakov
Offered to:
Andrea Cavaglia' (accepted)


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