UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Algebra, Real Algebraic Geometry and Polynomial Optimization. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Professor Cordian Riener. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of Algebra, Real Algebraic Geometry and Polynomial Optimization as presented by Professor Riener:

My research combines results from convex optimization and real algebraic geometry in the context of optimization and computational complexity, and therefore could be an ideal bridge between various research groups in your department. My primary research goals are directed towards the question how additional structure in computational problems in optimization and more general computational can be used to simplify the algorithmic complexity. For example, this includes the role of symmetry in polynomial optimization and more general algorithmic tasks from real algebraic geometry, but also questions in complexity theory, where symmetry plays an important role. My research interests in particular are integrated in to the research program of the Lie-Størmer Center for Fundamental Structures in Computations (https://en.uit.no/research/lsc).

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to cordian.riener@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.