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Post-Doctoral Fellowship in High Energy Astrophysics

Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

Apply by Dec 31, 2026

Job Description

The University of São Paulo's High Energy and Plasma Astrophysics group seeks a postdoctoral fellow to develop realistic simulations and reconstruction pipelines for double-layer water Cherenkov detector designs for the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory. The researcher will quantify detector performance and develop the joint SWGO-CTAO science case for transients, diffuse emission, cosmic-ray anisotropy and multi-TeV sources, with planned visits to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the SWGO site.

Requirements

  • Applicants must hold a PhD in physics
  • astronomy or a related field and have experience in detector or atmospheric-shower simulations and/or gamma-ray or multi-messenger astrophysics. Strong programming and data-analysis skills and excellent English are required. The call is open to candidates of any nationality
  • applications require a CV
  • publication list
  • brief statement and two recommendation letters.

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