New Norditans Arriving in Fall 2014

by Lárus Thorlacius Staff

New Nordita Fellows

Four new Nordita Fellowships have been awarded to

• Lavinia Heisenberg - University of Geneva - gravitation and cosmology (joint appointment with the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University)
• Matin Mojaza - CP3 Origins, University of Southern Denmark - high energy physics
• Yen Chin Ong - National Taiwan University - gravitation and cosmology
• Alexandra Veledina - University of Oulu - astrophysics

In addition, Marcelo Dias, formerly of Brown University, has taken up a joint postdoctoral position in soft condensed matter physics at the Aalto Science Institute (AScI) and Nordita, with residence at AScI for two years followed by a third year as a Nordita Fellow.

There were 399 fellowship applications this year. They were evaluated and ranked by the three Nordic Research Committees and by the Nordita faculty. We would like to take this opportunity to thank committee members for their time and commitment to Nordita.

New Postdocs at Nordita

The "Nordita Fellowships" are postdoctoral positions supported by Nordita. In addition, we have several PhD and postdoctoral positions financed by various grants won by Nordita senior staff. These are new postdocs arriving in fall 2014:

• Pawel Caputa - Wits University - high-energy physics
• Amit Dekel - University of Uppsala - high-energy physics
• Sergey Pershoguba - University of Maryland - condensed matter physics
• Christopher Savage - University of Utah - high-energy physics

New Nordita PhD Students

• Saikat Banerjee - Harish Chandra Research Institute - condensed matter physics
• Xiang-Yu Li - Chinese University of Hong Kong - astrophysics
• Daniel Medina Rincon - Utrecht University - high-energy physics

New Senior Lecturers

For the first time ever, Nordita and Uppsala University have advertised jointly a tenured position as assistant professor in high energy physics. Due to fortunate circumstances, two people have now been hired:

• Monica Guic? - University of Pennsylvania - high-energy physics
• Henrik Johansson - CEA-Saclay - high-energy physics

They are expected to share their time between both places to conduct research in high-energy physics and to teach.

Welcome lunch for some of the new Norditians in September.