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Jean Van Schaftingen

Post-doctoral fellowship in calculus of variations and partial differential equations

A two-year post-doctoral fellowship is available at UCLouvain, Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et en Physique (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

The successful candidate will work in a project on “SHarMAGLaR — Singular Harmonic Maps and Asymptotics of Ginzburg-Landau Relaxations”, under the supervision of Professor Jean Van Schaftingen and in collaboration with the team members.

The monthly net salary will be between 2 550 € and 2 730 €, depending on experience.

Applicants should

  • Have a research experience in nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations,
  • Have a working knowledge in English,
  • Satisfy the administrative definition of international post-doctoral researcher: hold a doctoral degree since less than 6 years at the time of hiring and not have been either a resident, a worker or a student in Belgium for more than 24 months out of the 36 months preceding hiring.

The application consists of

  • A cover letter, including the contact information of three references that might be contacted about the application.
  • A curriculum vitæ.
  • A research statement describing the research interests, achievements and objectives of the candidate.

Doctoral thesis, publications and preprints should preferably be available for download on a website or on a publication repository.

The application should be submitted in a single pdf file, sent by email to Jean.VanSchaftingen@uclouvain.be, with subject “PostDoc2021 application”, before April 18, 2021.

Questions and inquiries should be sent to by email to Jean.VanSchaftingen@uclouvain.be with subject “PostDoc2021 inquiry”. Questions about the opportunity and the quality of a particular potential application will not be answered; these potential candidates are invited to apply.

Last modification: 2021-03-04 10:05.