📍 Location: Kraków
📅 Start: Oct 2026 (flexible)
⏳ Priority deadline: 31 May 2026
Full details & application info:
👉 https://inspirehep.net/jobs/3092375
The project focuses on new factorisation schemes for precision LHC phenomenology, with strong links to QCD, PDFs, and MC event generators, and close collaboration with MCnet.
Ideal for candidates with a solid particle-physics background and C++/Python skills.
📢 PhD opportunity in high-energy particle physics (Kraków, Poland)
A 4-year PhD position is available at the Jagiellonian University, in collaboration with the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Polish Academy of Sciences). 🧵
📝 How to apply:
• Short CV
• Statement of interest
• Reference letter from PhD supervisor
📅 Next deadline: 26 February 2026
Full details & contacts:
👉 https://gitlab.cern.ch/mcnet/short-term-studentships/-/wikis/MC-next-studentship-projects
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These projects offer hands-on experience with state-of-the-art HEP software, spanning GPU/CPU optimisation, machine learning, perturbative QCD, and analysis preservation — all within the MCnet collaboration.
🔬 Available projects include:
• GPU acceleration for collective effects
• Conditional Flow Matching for MadNIS
• SIMD acceleration in Pepper
• GPU-accelerated KrkNLO matching with GAPS
• Using HERA data for LHC tuning & Rivet preservation
📢 MCnet short-term PhD studentships now available!
We’re advertising a new suite of 3-month studentships for PhD students working on Monte Carlo event generators, QCD, ML, and HPC. Flexible location, home PhD affiliation retained. 🧵
📢 We’re hiring!
A postdoc position is now open at our MCnet node in Krakow, starting next autumn.
Focus areas: factorisation schemes, QCD, PDFs, MC generators & collider phenomenology.
Please apply or share!
👉 https://inspirehep.net/jobs/3088724
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