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The ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research announces the opening of two Simons-FAPESP research professor positions. Depending on the qualifications of the candidates, the positions will be either permanent professorships or 4-year professorships with the possibility of tenure after 3 years.
Candidates from all areas of theoretical physics are encouraged to apply, and preference for one of the two positions will be in the area of complex systems with connections to biology. The search committee http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=1492 is chaired by Peter Goddard (IAS Princeton), and the search committee members are William Bialek (Princeton Univ.), David Gross (KITP, Santa Barbara), Marcus Aguiar (Univ. Campinas), Juan Maldacena (IAS Princeton), Belita Koiller (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro) and Simon Levin (Princeton Univ.).