Post-doctoral researcher in mathematics W/M

Employeur

The university of Bordeaux is a great dynamic and responsible university that cares about the well-being of its staff. Joining us means working in a privileged environment within a particularly diverse and open professional community, benefiting from welcome and inclusion schemes, training and internal mobility. It means participating in an academic, scientific and human adventure. It means committing to meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

Join the Institute of Mathematics of Bordeaux (IMB). The IMB is a joint research unit (UMR 5251) CNRS - University of Bordeaux - Bordeaux INP and brings together the latest research in mathematics from the Bordeaux site. It participates in the Cross-border Cooperation Laboratory TransMath with the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, the University of the Basque Country and Tecnalia. The IMB is also involved in the international research network France-South Korea (FKmathIRN).

As part of the project Thermodynamical and geometrical approach to multi dimensional aperiodic structures – THERMOGAMAS, funded by the National Research Agency, we are recruiting a Post-Doctoral Researcher in mathematics W/M.

The objective of the project is to understand how an ordered system can emerge spontaneously from a disordered system.

Votre mission

We intend to understand fundamental questions about the emergence of order and aperiodic structures in multidimensional systems through the lens of thermodynamic formalism and ergodic theory.

Understanding how complex systems achieve order as temperature decreases represents a central challenge in mathematical physics and dynamical systems, with profound connections to materials science through the study of quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings.

While one-dimensional models are relatively well understood through classical tools such as Ruelle operators and symbolic dynamics, multidimensional systems exhibit fundamentally richer phenomena including non-computable entropies, chaotic ground state selection, and aperiodic structures with long-range order emerging solely from local rules.

The objective of the postdoctoral felllowship is to interconnect many research directions:

-        Frenkel-Kontorova models and weak KAM theory in quasi-periodic environments

-        gradient Gibbs measures and statistical mechanics at zero temperature

-        multidimensional subshifts of finite type and computability theory

-        thermodynamics of Delone sets and geometric approaches to quasicrystals

-        substitution systems on infinite alphabets

-        ergodic optimization for non-uniformly hyperbolic systems

-        random dynamical systems.

You will participate in seminars, workshops conferences and collaborative research initiatives in partnership with the Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Ciência da Computação.

The postdoctoral fellowship is strategically linked to the ANR-FAPESP collaborative project THERMOGAMAS between France and Brazil that seeks to establish a strong scientific cooperation between leading international researchers in order to better understand how complexity and aperiodic order emerge at zero temperature in realistic physical and mathematical models.

Vos atouts / Vos talents

Holder of a PhD in Mathematics, you have strong knowledge of analysis, dynamic systems and probability.

•       You are endowed with great curiosity and scientific rigor

•       You demonstrate autonomy and team-oriented abilities

•       You are proficient in oral and written scientific English (C1/C2 level) in a multicultural context

Do you recognize yourself? Apply!

More information:

By joining the TERMOGAMAS project, you will work in a team promoting France-Brazil scientific cooperation and bringing together leading international researchers, with the aim of advancing the understanding of the problems of emergence of complexity and aperiodic order at zero temperature in realistic physical and mathematical models.

Based in Talence, Gironde, FRANCE – access by tramway line B (stop « Peixotto ») buses, bike. The laboratory is near the city-centre of Bordeaux and about 60 Km of the Atlantic coasts.

NB: the position is based in a laboratory in the Restrictive Zone, which requires an investigation prior to hiring, which can take up to 8 weeks.

12-month fixed-term contract

Gross monthly salary: from 2750 € to 3000 € according to salary grid and experience

What we offer:

A training course adapted to support your job taking-up and your professional development

Up to 50 days of annual leave from the first year (in proportion to the arrival date)

Remote work possible depending on the organization of the service

Participation in complementary social protection and access to social action mechanisms

75% coverage of the public transport subscription in Gironde

Sustainable mobility package for home trips–work

Access to a staff parking

Leisure, sport and culture offers for all staff

Recruitment process: Applications are reviewed as they arrive.

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted by the Recruitment Officer for a first pre-qualification phone conversation. An interview with the supervisor will then be organised by videoconference.

Interested applicants should send a CV, brief statement of qualifications and basis for interest in the position, a list of your relevant publications, and the email addresses of 2 appropriate references.