In 2024 the National Science Foundation inaugurated the "Focused Research Hub in Theoretical Physics to Advance the Theory of Nuclear Double Beta-decay (@NDB)." The @NDB Hub contains theoretical physicists and statisticians at the University of North Carolina, Colorado State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, Miami University, Michigan State University, the University of Notre Dame, Ohio University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Washington, and Washington University in St. Louis.

The @NDB Hub anticipates hiring two post-doctoral research fellows who will join the project as soon as possible and not later than September 2025. These first two @NDB Fellows will be situated at the University of Tennessee and the University of Notre Dame (the Hub Center is at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill). Research at these @NDB sites will focus on the role of nuclear structure in double beta-decay, and we expect the successful candidates to contribute to that effort. Applicants should thus have a strong research record, preferably in the theory of nuclear structure, and display significant initiative to complement their research skills. @NDB fellows will have many opportunities to interact with theorists at the other institutions.

The appointments will initially be for one year. Renewal for a second year is highly probable, but is contingent on funding and job performance. Interested candidates are requested to submit a curriculum vitae, a complete list of publications, and a statement of research interests of no more than one page. Work at Notre Dame will involve the use of the In-Medium Similarity Renormalization Group to compute double-beta nuclear matrix elements, and at Tennessee the coupled cluster method for the same task; research statements should suggest ways in which the applicant can contribute to the effort at one or both institutions.

Please submit applications to Academic Jobs Online. Only submissions via this site will be accepted. Upon submission, applicants will be asked to provide the names of three people willing to write letters of recommendation. Those people will then be contacted by email and asked to upload their letters. Questions about the positions should be addressed to Jon Engel at engelj@physcis.unc.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled.

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