[Users] PhD fellowships at SISSA

[Enrico Barausse]

Dear Colleagues

Please find below an open call for PhD fellowships at SISSA (Trieste,
Italy). Apologies if you receive this more than once. Please feel free
to forward to potentially interested parties

Best wishes

Enrico Barausse

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The gravitational-wave physics group at SISSA (Trieste, Italy) invites
applications for PhD positions in gravitational-wave theory, source
modeling, science interpretation and data analysis, to start in the fall
of 2025.

Successful candidates will join the GWSKy project, which an ERC Synergy
Grant has recently funded. We are particularly interested in hiring
creative and highly motivated candidates who can work collaboratively
and independently in a vibrant, welcoming, and synergistic group. The
ERC-funded project called "Making sense of the unexpected in the
gravitational-wave sky (GWSky)" is led by PIs Enrico Barausse (SISSA,
Trieste, Italy), Zvi Bern (University of California, Los Angeles, US),
Alessandra Buonanno (Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam) and Maarten van
de Meent (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark).

The aim of the GWSky project is to use gravitational-wave measurements
by existing and future observatories on the Earth and in space as
precision laboratories for fundamental physics, cosmology, and
astrophysics. This includes the current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors, as
well as the future ground-based observatories Cosmic Explorer and
Einstein Telescope, and the space-based detector LISA. By leveraging the
PIs and their team's expertise, the GWSky project aims to develop a
groundbreaking framework capable of solving the highly nonlinear
equations of Einstein's General theory of Relativity, creating waveform
models with unprecedented accuracy, and translating these results into
practical tools for interpreting the data.

As a consequence, at SISSA we are looking at candidates in the following
research areas: numerical-relativity simulations in General Relativity
and alternative theories of gravity; environmental effects for binary
systems; tests of General Relativity; gravitational-wave data analysis
and machine learning; waveform modeling.

Applications should be sent to *both*
https://pica.cineca.it/sissa/phd-gwsky-2025/ and
https://pica.cineca.it/sissa/phd-app-01-2025/ 

Please also see

https://www.sissa.it/sites/default/files/2024-03/SISSA_IstruzioniCompilazioneDomandaPICA*20-*20ENGL_0.pdf

for instructions. The hard deadline for applications is March 4 at 1300
Italian time.