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Updates:

Friday, Dec 12th 2025 New ML position in Tübingen and a shortlist in Würzburg. Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, Nov 11th 2025 Suspicious seminars at CERN (which position?).
Wednesday, Oct 29th 2025 No recent rumors. Something else: please remember that our free web hosting unfortunately does not include SSL encryption.
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Monday, June 23rd 2025 Freiburg offered again and this time accepted. CERN also offered and accepted. Mainz offered.
Monday, Jan 13th 2025 Happy New Year! Some cleanup done. W1 in Freiburg offered and declined.
Tuesday, Dec 16th 2024 Offer for a new position in Graz. Merry Christmas!
Friday, Nov 22nd 2024 New W3s in Siegen and Bonn, list of speakers at a symposium in Mainz.
Wednesday, Aug 7th 2024 New W1 in Freiburg, short list.
Wednesday, June 12th 2024 Another CERN LD update.
Wednesday, May 8th 2024 New W2 in Mainz.
Tuesday, Apr 9th 2024 Updates on the CERN LD positions, new permanent lattice position at CERN.
Friday, Apr 5th 2024 Several offers for CERN LD positions. Correction/clarification on Hannover. Sorry about the recent delays. Please keep sending rumors!

Bonn (W3, Theoretical Particle Physics) [30.09.2024]
Short List:
Offered to:
CERN (lattice, permanent) [1.5.24 until filled]
Short List:
Offered to:
Harvey B. Meyer (accepted)
CERN TH-SP-2025-60-LD? (theory, limited duration) [31.12.25?]
Short List:
Stephen Jones
Simone Zoia
Gherardo Vita
Kay Schonwald
Rene Poncelet
Offered to:
Freiburg (W1) [14.6.24]
Short List:
Simone Biondini
Marco Fedele
Peter Stangl
Anastasia Sokolenko
Kim Berghaus
Venus Keus
Offered to:
Kim Berghaus (declined)
Simone Biondini (accepted)
Graz (A1) [13.3.24]
Short List:
 Offered to:
Alessia Platania
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) (has since been appointed a W3 joint professorship at DESY & Leibniz University Hannover)
Mainz (W2, theoretical HEP) [15.5.24]
Short List: Speakers at a symposium
Alessandro Broggio
Maria Ramos
Marco Drewes
Alexander Huss
Marius Wiesemann
Martin Gorbahn
Andreas Helset
Venus Keus
Marzia Bordone
Yu-Dai Tsai
Florian Goertz
(+1 more person)
Offered to:
Marzia Bordone
Siegen (W3, Computational Theoretical Physics) [25.11.2024]
Short List:
Offered to:
Tübingen (W3, Machine Learning in Physics) [15.2.2026]
Short List:
Offered to:
Würzburg (W2/W3, Theoretical Physics, open rank) [31.5.2025]
Short List:
Anke Biekötter
Ekta Chaubey
Michal Czakon
Marco Drewes
Julia Harz
Stefan Höche
Alexander Huss
Stefan Kallweit
Jonas Lindert
Mathieu Pellen
Offered to:

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