Fundamental Physics Theory group

Welcome to the web-site of the Fundamental Physics Theory group!

We are a newly forming group in the School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) of ShanghaiTech University focusing on Theoretical High Energy physics. Currently we are 2 faculty members, 1 visiting faculty member, 4 postdoctoral researches and several master and bachelor students.

The main research directions are quantization of gravity, cosmology, scattering amplitudes, string theory and string field theory, black holes and gravitational-wave physics, quantum chromodynamics, color-kinematics duality in gauge theories, double copy construction for gravity theories, conformal field theory, AdS/CFT, and related topics.

Current group members

Faculty members and visiting faculty

Alexey Koshelev Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech	Alexey Koshelev's research spans quantization of gravity, cosmology, scattering amplitudes, string theory and string field theory, and black holes. The arXiv archives are: hep-th, gr-qc and astro-ph.CO. More about Alexey
Alexander Ochirov Assistant Professor at ShanghaiTech	Alexander Ochirov's research spans scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory, black holes and gravitational-wave physics, quantum chromodynamics, color-kinematics duality in gauge theories, double copy construction for gravity theories. More about Alexander
Huajia Wang Assistant Professor at KITS, UCAS and at ShanghaiTech	Huajia Wang's research spans QFTs, string theory, and quantum gravity. More about Huajia
Xinan Zhou Assistant Professor at KITS, UCAS and at ShanghaiTech	Xinan Zhou's research spans conformal field theory, AdS/CFT and scattering amplitudes. More about Xinan

Postdoctoral researchers

Hiren Kakkad	Hiren Kakkad's research interests are scattering amplitudes in gravity and QCD, focusing on their geometrical formulation in the twistor space; exploring the boundary-to-bound-state dictionary for gravitational binaries in the context of gravitational wave physics.
Rémy Larue	Rémy Larue's research revolves around the study of quantum anomalies and Effective Field Theories in curved spacetime, via functional methods. In particular, his interests are: Path Integral methods for chiral theories, gravitational anomalies, Weyl and conformal anomalies, finite temperature/density effects.
Oleg Melichev	Oleg Melichev's research interests are classical and quantum aspects of various modified gravity theories such that the renormalization group approach to quantum gravity and its applications to Metric-Affine and Infinite Derivative theories and in particular the heat kernel technique to perform computation of a quantum effective action in these theories.
Abhishek Naskar	Abhishek Naskar's research interests are various aspects of inflationary cosmology, such as non-Gaussian signatures of different models of inflation, curvaton scenarios, primordial magnetogenesis etc.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Deadline on Feb 14, 2025

Applications are invited for postdoctoral positions in theoretical particle physics at ShanghaiTech.

The successful candidates will contribute to the growth of the Fundamental Physics Theory group, which at the time of writing includes Alexey Koshelev and Alexander Ochirov as full-time faculty, Xinan Zhou and Huajia Wang as visiting faculty, as well as postdocs and students. The group's interests include scattering amplitudes, quantum chromodynamics, color-kinematics duality, double copy, quantum and classical gravity, cosmology, string theory, black holes, gravitational-wave physics, conformal bootstrap and AdS/CFT. For more information on the group please see the new website. The post-holders will have opportunities to teach.

The appointments will be for 2+2 years and are expected to start in the fall/winter of 2025. ShanghaiTech will provide competitive remuneration, allowances and benefits in accordance with the relevant regulations of the University and according to the experience of the candidates. The resulting gross annual salary may be expected to lie in the range of 200,000-320,000 CNY plus housing subsidy of 2,500 CNY/month. Post-holders may also count on generous allowance for international travel to conferences and for collaboration, as well as on opportunities to apply for additional research and salary funds.

Applicants should hold a PhD in physics or a related field prior to the start of the appointment. In accordance with the Chinese regulations, candidates should be under 35 years old at the start of the appointment.

To apply, please send the following materials to recruitment [at] fph-shtech [dot] net:

• CV, please include an INSPIRE-HEP link to the candidate’s publications;
• research statement 1-3 pages;
• 3 reference letters arranged by the applicant and sent independently by the letter writers.

The application materials and reference letters should be sent electronically to recruitment [at] fph-shtech [dot] net with "Postdoc" in the subject line.

Review of applications will begin on February 15th, 2025.

For more information about this position, please contact Alexander Ochirov at ochirov [at] shanghaitech [dot] edu [dot] cn