Postdoctoral Research position in Observational Cosmology at IFAE

Postdoctoral position in the IFAE Observational Cosmology group (5 faculty, 8 postdocs, 8 students), a full member of the Dark Energy Survey, DESI, the Euclid Consortium and the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC). The postdoc joins LSST DESC to develop and validate methods that go beyond the state of the art in galaxy-survey data analysis and apply them to the first Rubin Observatory LSST data release (DR1), expected in 2028, with international travel, research stays and collaboration meetings.

Contract: indefinite ACT (Actividades Científico-Técnicas) contract linked to project funding, 2 years plus a possible 1-year extension, full time (40 h/week); expected start September 2027. Funded by project PID2024-159420NB-C41 (and possibly CEX2024-001441-S, MICIU/AEI). Apply by email to Andreu Font Ribera and IFAE HR with reference IFAE2026/43_COSMOLOGY_Postdoc, including CV, letter of interest and two reference letters.

PhD in Physics or a related discipline; experience in data analysis of cosmological surveys and scientific programming, including High Performance Computing. Evaluation: research experience (40), leadership and communication (20), programming and computing (20), research vision and motivation (20).