Centro de Física do Porto, from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, invites applications for two PhD student positions to begin in the 2017-2018 academic year (preferably from 1st September 2017), supported by the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap. http://bootstrapcollaboration.com

The successful applicants will carry out research under the supervision of Prof. Miguel S. Costa. The primary research direction is in the field of strongly coupled and conformal quantum field theories, with applications to high energy physics, gauge/gravity duality and quantum gravity. It is expected that successful applicants will be available to collaborator with the other scientists from the Simons Collaboration on the Nonperturbative Bootstrap, both based at Centro de Física do Porto and at the other international centers that participate in the collaboration. Freedom to spend extended periods at such research institutes is desirable.

The fellowship includes a net salary of 980€ per month, social and health insurance coverage, as well as full tuition fees. It is renewable up to three years (staring from 1st September 2017).

Applications should consist of a CV, the grade transcripts from attended Bachelor and Master University courses, a short statement of research interests, and two letters of recommendation.

Please submit the applications via email to recrutamento@fc.up.pt with \Cc to miguelc@fc.up.pt, and write as subject: Simons PhD grant - "candidate first and last name". Reference letters should also be submitted to recrutamento@fc.up.pt with \Cc to miguelc@fc.up.pt, and with subject: Simons PhD grant - ref for "candidate first and last name".

For full consideration, applications should be received by May 19, 2017.