UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

For more info, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28137/

Salary: £32,816-£40,322 per annum

Limit of tenure: three years

Closing date: 3 January 2021

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A postdoctoral Research Associate position is expected in the research group of Dr. Aron C. Wall. The position will involve research in high energy physics, quantum gravity, and/or quantum information theory in order to better understand the holographic principle.
The candidate will be based at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) of the University of Cambridge. Candidates should either have, or be about to receive, a PhD in Physics, Mathematics, or a closely related field.

The position will be supported by the Isaac Newton Trust grant “Quantum Cosmology and Emergent Time” and the (United States) Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant “Tensor Networks and Holographic Spacetime”.

Goals of the project include finding a local (bulk) formulation of the holographic principle for dynamical or cosmological settings, using tools such as TT deformed theories, quantum cosmology, tensor networks, holographic entanglement entropy, and/or specific holographic dualities such as AdS/CFT or dS/CFT.

Duties of the position involve the ability to pursue an original research programme both independently and in collaboration with others, and to disseminate the results of this work by submitting articles to the arXiv and giving academic seminars both at Cambridge and abroad. The role holder will be expected to assist in the preparation of proposals and applications to external bodies. You may be asked to assist in the supervision of student projects and the development of
student research skills.

In addition to collaborations at DAMTP, the successful candidate will also have the opportunity to participate in an affiliated international collaboration led by Xi Dong and Donald Marolf (UC Santa Barbara), Tom Faulkner (UI Urbana-Champaign), Daniel Harlow (MIT), Patrick Hayden (Stanford), John Preskill (Caltech), and Brian Swingle (U Maryland), who are supported by the MURI grant “Quantum Codes, Tensor Networks, and Quantum Spacetime”.

For information on how to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/28137/

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society. We particularly welcome applications from women and /or candidates from a BME background for this vacancy as they are currently under-represented at this level in our Department.

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