Job Description
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Durham
The Role
Two posts are available. One is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), to start in October 2026, for a period of 3 years. The other is funded by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), to start in June 2026, for a period of 3 years. Successful candidates will join thriving research teams within the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham. The ICC is a leading group in computational cosmology research, having previously played key roles in the development of simulation techniques for dark matter, dark energy and galaxy formation, and in the establishment of the Lambda cold dark matter (LCDM) model, and has continued to be at the forefront of cosmology research.
We are particularly interested in candidates with research interests in the following areas:
* ERC post : Cosmological tests of dark energy and modified gravity (contact: Baojiu Li)
* UKRI post : The use of cosmological simulations in the analysis of large-scale structure and galaxy redshift surveys, topics in the galaxy-halo connection, and field-level inference (contact: Sownak Bose)
Benefits of these roles include:
* opportunity to undertake high quality research with connection to impact;
* working closely with people with extensive experience in theoretical, computatio...