We welcome applications for two junior and one senior post-doc positions, and for one PhD position.
All these positions will start in Fall 2027.
The High-Energy Theoretical Physics Group aims at outstanding candidates with international experience. The appointment will be for three years. Salary is competitive at European level, according to experience and qualification. The successful candidates will carry out their research at the Department of Physics of the University of Milano. The activities of the project will be developed within a collaboration network which includes groups in Zürich, Ghent, Louvain-la-Neuve, CERN, Firenze, Napoli, Bhubaneswar, Shanghai.
Applications must be sent to qft.applications@mi.infn.it and should consist of: a cover letter, a CV including a complete list of publications, a research statement of no more than 3 pages. Three letters of recommendation from senior scientists should be sent to the same address.
We will consider applications submitted before November 24th 2026.
Two junior postdoc positions. The topics associated to the two positions focus on different aspects of Quantum Field Theory and of the evaluation of electroweak quantum corrections to scattering processes of interest at the CERN LHC and at a future lepton collider.
Position 1. Computational aspect of the calculations in Quantum Field Theory. Distributed computing and hardware acceleration. Optimisation of the mathematical representation of the scattering amplitude.
Position 2. Renormalisation of the EW Standard Model. Treatment of chiral couplings. Resonances in Quantum Field Theory and their phenomenology. Matching with the all order description of QED radiation in the lepton collinear PDF formalism. Electroweak precision parameters.
Senior postdoc position. The successful candidate will closely follow all the steps of the “Quantum FronTiers” project, with a coordination role of the different contributions prepared by the other members of the collaboration.
The project aims at breaking one of the current frontiers in the evaluation of the quantum corrections in the Standard Model, namely the second-order purely electroweak effects. In order to achieve this goal, a new methodology will be developed and applied to a few representative cases of interest at High-Luminosity LHC and at future lepton colliders such as the FCC-ee.
The harmonization of the different developments, computational, mathematical and in Quantum Field Theory, and of the application phase, with the evaluation of the benchmark processes, will lead to the release of the public code of the simulation tools.
PhD position. The successful candidate will be enrolled in the PhD School of Physics, Astrophysics and applied Physics of the University of Milano, and will closely follow one of the research lines of the project.