Postdoctoral scholarship holder field of physics related field
Listed on 2026-02-18
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Research/Development
Research Scientist, Biomedical Science, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Data Scientist
Location: Town of Belgium
Organisation/Company University of Antwerp Research Field Engineering » Control engineering Engineering » Materials engineering Physics » Optics Physics » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Final date to receive applications 26 Feb 2026 - 22:59 (UTC) Country Belgium Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Interreg Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
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The Department of Physics in the Faculty of Science is looking for a full-time (100%) postdoctoral scholarship holder in the field of Physics or a related field
The Particle Physics research group carries out research in particle physics (CMS experiment at CERN LHC) and gravitational waves. Members of the group are involved with Virgo instrumentation, LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA data analysis, and Instrumentation Science with the Einstein Telescope. The University of Antwerp is a founding partner of theETPathfinder project, and members of the group take part in the instrumentation developments related to this facility in Maastricht.
The University of Antwerp is also one of the initial founding research units of the Einstein Telescope Collaboration.
Are you interested in technology and techniques which allow us to observe black holes colliding a million light years out in the cosmos?
We are looking for a postdoc to work on the cross section of research, education and collaboration with industry and join the
ET pathfinder Smart Skills Lab project .
ET pathfinder is a field laboratory for research, development and validation of new technologies for the Einstein Telescope. Based on a full interferometer configuration ET pathfinder aims to perform length measurements at the level of a thousandths of a proton diameter, which requires going beyond the state of art in a variety of fields including optics, sensors, lasers, materials, cryogenic cooling, vibration damping, vacuum and controls.
The ET pathfinder Smart Skills lab is a new initiative with the aim of providing training to companies and industry partners in ET pathfinder related technologies and skills. These skills trainings will be offered in particular to small and medium enterprises (SME) in Flanders and the south of the Netherlands (Limburg and Noord Brabant). The ET pathfinder Smart Skills lab is an initiative of 17 academic and educational partners from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Position
- You would join a cohort of 11 ET pathfinder Technology Experts who will initially work for 12 months with the ET pathfinder team to get trained in the ET pathfinder facility erwards you will develop training modules and deliver them (online & practical) to SMEs.
- You will work in close collaboration with the ET pathfinder team (consisting of more than 20 research institutes and universities from 7 countries) and the ET pathfinder Smart Skills Lab team.
- The location of this full-time job is in the Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium. You will be expected to spend a significant fraction of your time at the ET pathfinder facility in Maastricht (Maastricht University, Duboisdomein 30, Maastricht, the Netherlands).
- Your research focus will be on seismic isolation & control
, which is also the primary commitment of the University of Antwerp towards the ET pathfinder project. This involves contributions to the construction, installation, and commissioning of position sensors, actuators, mirror tower suspensions, and local control…
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