Deadline: 31 oct 2024

We invite applications for one 2-years postdoctoral contract at SISSA (International School of Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy).

Description of the position

The appointment will be primarily based on excellent scientific contributions and outstanding research potential. The selected candidate will be hired on the ERC Starting Grant GEOSUB "Geometric analysis of sub-Riemannian spaces through interpolation inequalities", under the supervision of Luca Rizzi. The ideal candidate is expected to have a solid background in one of the topics of the project, including geometric analysis of sub-Riemannian manifolds and-or metric spaces, geometric inequalities on such spaces, theory of curvature bounds in a broad sense, optimal transport, isoperimetric inequalities, geometric control theory.

The contract is expected to start by the end of 2024, with some flexibility, and the duration is two years. The salary is around 2300€ after taxes, including social security and medical insurance, which is a competitive salary when compared with the cost of living in Trieste. The position comes with no compulsory teaching duties and substantial travel funds, so to provide the highly promising selected candidate an ideal research environment.

The Host Institution

SISSA – Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati – was founded in 1978 and is a scientific center of excellence within the national and international academic scene. Located in Italy, in the city of Trieste, it features about 70 professors, 130 researchers, 300 PhD students. The School is surrounded by a 25 acre park, and offers a stunning view of the Gulf of Trieste. The quality level of the research is further confirmed by the fact that within the competitive field of European funding schemes SISSA holds the top position among Italian scientific institutes in terms of research grants obtained in relation to the number of researchers and professors.

How to apply

This is a preliminary call of interest, and the official hiring process will start in september-october 2024.

The following documents must be sent to lrizzi@sissa.it as soon as possible :

1) ​a brief cover letter;

2) a CV;

3) a list of publications;

When the official hiring process will start, the following further documents will be required:

4) a research statement (describing previous results and future projects, not longer than 5 pages);

5) the names and address of up to three scientists that can provide a reference letter for the candidate.

Applicants must have obtained their Ph.D. before the start of the contract, and ideally not earlier than 2021.

Informal enquiries about the position can be sent to lrizzi@sissa.it

• ERC project's webpage
• PI's webpage