PostDocs

[ajb]

For those of you who are currently or have been postdocs, how did you find the position?

 

I am starting to hunt for postdocs myself in mathematical physics and related stuff, any advice on how to find positions welcomed.

 

So far I have used;

physics world jobs

maths-jobs.co.uk

jobs.ac.uk

LMS jobs

Tiptop

Spires job search

 

Anything obvious missing? All help welcomed.

[swansont]

I did two postdocs. One was through an ad in Physics Today, and the other was an email circulated through the atom-trapping community (back when it was much smaller). If your thesis advisor has contacts, use them. You should also be aware of who some/most of the players in your subfield are from conferences and journals.

 

Also, look into any postdoc programs run by national labs and funding institutions (e.g. in the US there is a National Science Foundation fellowship program, a NIST-NRC postdoc program and probably others) So in the UK look at NPL and whatever the programs are that award research grants and see if anything is available. In the US these often require citizenship, but there may be EU-wide programs that are similar.