Organisation/Company Universitat de les Illes Balears Research Field Physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 18 Sep 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37,5 Offer Starting Date 1 Nov 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number 2 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

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Offer DescriptionA pre-doctoral research position is available at the Institute of Applied Computing and Community Code (IAC3) to join the GRAVITY - Gravitational Physics: Theory and Observation Group and contribute to the scientific goals in the research programme led by Dr Ornella Juliana Piccinni.
The successful candidate will work within the framework of Dr Piccinni's research programme, including activities supported by her Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (RYC2 I),



funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the European Social Fund Plus (FSE+).
The successful candidate will contribute to developing data analysis pipelines for searching continuous gravitational waves and/or dark matter candidates. Depending on the candidate's interests, the project may also involve black hole ringdown studies and preparations for next-generation observatories such as the Einstein Telescope and the LISA mission.
Research duties will involve scientific programming, high-performance computing (HPC), algorithm development and analysing data from the general network of gravitational-wave detectors, including the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories. Python, MATLAB and/or C/C++ programming experience is highly desirable.
About IAC3 and the GRAVITY Group
IAC3 is an interdisciplinary research centre home to over 100 researchers from the departments of

📌 2026-2027_1_147 - A pre-doctoral contract in gravitational-wave physics (Palma)
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