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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

We have to move! (see above)
New position in Zürich.

Friday, Mar 23rd, 2012

One question mark removed.

Tuesday, Mar 13th, 2012

Münster offered and accepted, new W3 in Aachen.

Monday, Feb 20th, 2012

Another W3 in Karlsruhe.

Mon, Feb 13th 2012

New offer Heidelberg, Zürich.

Wed, Feb 1st 2012

Shortlist Freiburg.

Mon, Jan 30th 2012

Heidelberg declined.

Tuesday, Jan 10th, 2012 - Happy New Year!

New W3 in Karlsruhe.

Tuesday, Dec 20th, 2011

Short list Leipzig, cleanup.

Monday, Dec 12th, 2011

New positions in Amsterdam (strings), Oslo.

Monday, Nov 21st, 2011

Desy accepted, Zurich rumor.

Tuesday, Nov 8th, 2011

Lund accepted.

Thursday, Nov 3rd, 2011

PSI accepted; new position in Freiburg.


2011/2012 HEP Faculty Jobs:

Aachen (W3, successor to Martin Beneke) [31.3.12]
Short List:
CERN (Tenured Senior Theoretical Physicist) [June 2010]
Short List:
 Offered To:
Lance Dixon (declined)
DESY (Particle Cosmology, tenure track) [7.1.11]
Short List:
Fedor Bezrukov (LMU Munich)
Alexander Vikman (CERN)
Sarah E. Shandera (Perimeter Institute)
Bjoern Garbrecht (RWTH Aachen)
Anders Tranberg (Niels Bohr Institute)
Thomas M. Konstandin (CERN)
...
Offered To:
Thomas Konstandin (accepted)
Frankfurt (W1, lattice) [15.10.10]
Short List:
Freiburg (W1, with tenure track option to W3) [15.11.11]
Short List:
Jürgen Reuter (DESY)
Barbara Jäger (Mainz)
Harald Ita (Kopenhagen)
Alexander Mück (RWTH)
Christian Sturm (MPI München)
Andrea Banfi (Freiburg)
Andreas Weiler (DESY)
Michael Rauch (Karlsruhe)
Rikkert Frederix (Zürich)
Heidelberg (W3) [6.1.11]
Short List:
S. Huber (Sussex)
J. Jackel (Durham)
T. Schwetz-Mangold (Heidelberg)
A. Frey (McGill)
I. Yavin (NYU)
+ 2 more senior people
Offered To:
Tim Tait (Irvine) (declined)
Jörg Jackl
Karlsruhe (Astro) (W3) [28.2.12]
Short List:
Karlsruhe (successor Kühn) (W3) [13.4.12]
Short List:
Leipzig (W3) [22.11.10]
Short List:
Jesper Grimstrup
Stefan Hollands (Cardiff)
Joerg Jackel (Durham)
Daniel Litim
Harold Steinacker (Vienna)
Münster (W1) [30.4.2011]
Short List:
Oliver Brein (Freiburg U.)
Olaf Kittel (Granada U.)
Anna Kulesza (RWTH Aachen)
Luminta Mihaila (Karlsruhe U., ITP)
Christian Schwinn (Freiburg U.)
Karol Kovarik
seminar organized by a member of the comsission (candidate?): Walter Winter (Würzburg)
Offered To:
Anna Kulesza (accepted)
Nijmegen (Full Prof.) [28.2.2011]
Short List:
Oslo (Associate Professorship) [15.1.2012]
Short List:
PSI (phenomenology) [28.2.2011]
Short List:
 Offered To:
Adrian Signer (IPPP Durham) (accepted)
Utrecht (assistant professor) [1.8.2011 or until filled]
Short List:
Zürich (Tenure track / dep. on cand.) [31.5.2012]
Short List:
 Offered To:

2012 String/Math/Formal/Other Physics Faculty Jobs:

Amsterdam (Faculty Position, "searching at all levels") [15.1.2012]
Short List:

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