Postdoctoral researcher – Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Quantum Gravity Unit

Position Description

Postdoc position available in the Quantum Gravity Unit, at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), for 2 years with extension to 3, starting fall 2025.

We are looking for an independent, self-motivated researcher to join our hep-th/gr-gc themed group.
OIST is an international, English-speaking institute located on the beautiful subtropical island of Okinawa. It offers extensive support for life in Japan as a foreigner.
As a postdoc, you will have opportunities (but no obligations) to organize workshops, teach courses, and mentor students.

The group’s current members include:

1. Yasha Neiman (head of the group): works mainly on higher-spin gravity and de Sitter space physics, aiming to understand higher-spin dS/CFT as a working model for quantum gravity with positive cosmological constant.

2. Mirian Tsulaia (staff scientist): old-school string theorist, works mainly on higher-spin interactions (in various dimensions; with or without supersymmetry; recently, in application to effective descriptions of black holes interacting with gravitational radiation).

3. Keith Glennon (postdoc): heroically develops the E11 approach to string/M-theory.

4. Sebastian Murk (postdoc): analyzes various semiclassical-gravity models/scenarios for astrophysical black holes, and their theoretical/observational implications. Also interested in quantum information and discrete geometries.

5. Subhajit Mazumdar (postdoc): works on the large-dimensions approach to General Relativity and black hole physics.