Postdoctoral Fellow

Applications are currently invited for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Black Hole Imitative (BHI) at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). The BHI is the first interdisciplinary research center worldwide to focus on the study of black holes. It is located within Harvard University at 20 Garden Street in Cambridge, MA. Current senior members of the BHI include Harvard faculty, BHI Director Peter Galison ( History & Philosophy of Science), Ramesh Narayan (Astronomy), Andy Strominger (Physics) and Abraham Loeb (Astronomy), Yale Faculty Priyamvada Natarajan (Astronomy), MIT Faculty Netta Engelhardt (Physics), as well as SAO Astronomers Sheperd Doeleman (Founding Director of the Event Horizon Telescope project) and Michael Johnson (Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA). Successful candidates will have access to out new computing facilities and will have the opportunity to interact with researchers above in multiple fields, including (but of course not limited to):

• Fundamental physics of black holes and the information paradox.
• Mathematical stability of spacetime and gravitational memory.
• GR Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows.
• Tidal disruption events.
• Gravitational Waves and black hole mergers.
• The Philosophical and Historical context of black holes.
• Horizon-resolving observations and analysis using the EHT.