To foster the advancement of young academics and women in science, ORIGINS offers two postdoc fellowships: the ORIGINS Fellowship and especially for women, the Vera Rubin* Fellowship. Both fellowships are aimed at highly qualified PhD graduates (within 5 years of receipt of their PhD) who show promise to conduct independent and interdisciplinary research within the ORIGINS research community. Qualified women can apply for both fellowships. Both theoretical and experimental work are possible. There are three calls for applications in the current funding period: 2020, 2021 and 2022. The last call will be started in September of 2021.
ORIGINS Fellows can choose from a wide range of research at the ORIGINS Cluster and can work with leading scientists in their field of interest at the various institutes within the framework of ORIGINS.
ORIGINS Fellow since 2020.
Alexandre is a theoretical and numerical cosmologist who works in the area of large-scale structure (LSS) in the Universe. His research interests include galaxy clustering, gravitational lensing, cosmological perturbation theory, N-body simulations of structure formation, and using LSS to constrain physics and cosmology (e.g. inflation, dark energy, gravity).
* The namesake of our fellowship for women scientists is the pioneering astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin (1928-2016), who revolutionized our understanding of the universe and inspired generations of women in science. Her tireless observations of the motions of stars in galaxies provided very clear evidence for the existence of dark matter in the universe.
