Joining the Louis research group

We are always interested in talented PhD students or Postdocs who want to join our group. Our work is interdisciplinary and so we welcome people with backgrounds in theoretical physics, theoretical chemistry, applied mathematics, engineering, and biology. Familiarity with computer simulations and theoretical techniques of statistical mechanics is important. Please contact Ard Louis by email if you are interested (I will try to respond, but keep in mind that I get hundreds of these every year)

Topics

Please see our Research Interests page for a description of the topics that we currently work on in our group.

Joining as a DPhil student

Oxford Theoretical Physics runs its DPhil applications jointly, see this page for some more details. The main deadline is in early January for a start the following October.

I can also supervise students through some of the interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Programmes run at the University, as well as students on the Oxford-IBM sponsored Computational Discovery Programme.

Joining as a postdoc

Open positions

• There are several Leverhulme-Peierls Fellowships available in the Rudolph Peierls Centre.
  Next deadline 12:00 noon, 13 October 2023
• New faculty position in Rudolf Peierls Centre Associate Professor of Theoretical Biophysics Closing date noon 1 Nov 2023.
  

Other potential funding options

• I can supervise The Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford -- Oxford physics internal deadline is 4 Sept 2023.
• Marie Curie Fellowships,
• Various fellowships administered by the Royal Society (such as the Newton Fellowships).
• Fellowships with the Human Frontier Science Program.
• Each year individual Oxford Colleges, have prestigious junior research fellowships, usually advertised in the Oxford University Gazette -- As an example, here is one from 2021 deadline 12 Nov 2021 for an Oct 2022 start.
• There is an annual Violette and Samuel Glasstone Research Fellowship in Science , usually with deadlines in Autumn.
• German postdocs and faculty can apply via the Humboldt Foundation Fyodor Lynen Research Fellowship .