The January 31 High Energy Theory Postdoc Accord

A common postdoc acceptance deadline is critical for establishing a standard of equity and fairness in hiring and recruiting practices, allowing applicants to make life and career decisions with the maximum amount of information at their disposal. 

In support of this common goal, signatories of this Postdoc Accord hereby agree to the following:

1. The signatory, on behalf of their research group, agrees to make no postdoctoral offer whose acceptance deadline is earlier than January 31st for a position which starts later that calendar year.  This deadline is subject to two exceptions:

• In years when January 31st falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the deadline shall be the last Friday prior. 

• In years when January 31st coincides with the Lunar New Year or Lunar New Year’s Eve, the deadline shall be the last working day prior to Lunar New Year’s Eve.  
  The resulting calendar of deadlines for 2026-2050 can be found below.

2. The accord will be signed by the current head of the research group or representative thereof, on behalf of the research group as a whole.  It is understood that the signature remains valid if the group leadership rotates to somebody else, unless the signature is withdrawn explicitly. 

3. This Postdoc Accord will supersede any previous accords signed by an institution.

4. This accord does not apply to multidisciplinary fellowships and other funding sources whose timing is outside the control of individual research groups.

Signatories:

• Finn Larsen, University of Michigan
• Graham Kribs, University of Oregon
• Mukund Rangamani, UC Davis Fields, strings and gravity group
• Daniel Grumiller, TU Wien - Vienna University of Technology
• David Curtin, University of Toronto
• Michal Czakon, RWTH Aachen University
• Ben Craps, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, hep-th group
• Christoph Englert, University of Glasgow
• Nathan Berkovits, ICTP-SAIFR São Paulo
• Jeremy Green, Zeuthen Particle Physics Theory, DESY
• Yotam Soreq, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology hep-ph group
• Thomas Grimm, Utrecht University
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire
• Konstantin Zarembo,  NORDITA Stockholm
• Jean-Francois Fortin, Laval University Quebec
• James Cline, McGill University
• Gustavo Burdman, University of Sao Paulo
• Tom Rizzo, SLAC Theory Group
• Maria Concepcion González, High Energy Theory Group at ICC, University of Barcelona
• Louise Dolan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Patrick J. Fox, Fermilab Theory Division
• Emil Bjerrum-Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, HET group
• Dominik Stoeckinger, Technische Universitaet Dresden
• Tim Tait, University of California at Irvine
• Jacques Distler, University of Texas at Austin
• Surjeet Rajendran, Johns Hopkins University
• Jure Zupan, University of Cincinnati
• Kristan Jensen, University of Victoria, Canada
• Michael Schmidt, University of New South Wales
• Christopher Carone, William and Mary
• Joan Simon, University of Edinburgh Mathematical Physics Group
• Ben Allanach, Cambridge University, Theoretical High Energy Physics Group
• Michael Klasen, University of Münster
• Liam McAllister, Cornell University
• David Morrissey, TRIUMF Particle Theory Group
• Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
• Wolfgang Altmannshofer, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland
• Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Laura Reina, Florida State University
• Yonit Hochberg and Michael Smolkin, Hebrew University Jerusalem
• Jernej F. Kamenik, Jozef Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana hep-ph and hep-th groups
• Sekhar Chivukula, University of California at San Diego
• Robert Fleischer, NIKHEF Theory Group
• Giuseppe Policastro, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, High Energy and Fundamental Interactions group
• Riccardo Rattazzi, EPFL Lausanne HET group
• Simon Catterall, Syracuse University
• Shufang Su, Unversity of Arizona
• Ira Rothstein, Carnegie Mellon University
• Sera Cremonini, Lehigh University
• Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Paolo Creminelli, ICTP Trieste HECAP group
• Olaf Lechtenfeld, Leibniz University Hannover
• Chris Verhaaren, Brigham Young University
• Gian Giudice, CERN Theory Department
• Gert Aarts, Swansea University Particle Physics and Cosmology Theory Group
• Andrew Frey and Evan McDonough, University of Winnipeg
• Werner Porod, University of Würzburg
• Igor Klebanov, Princeton University High Energy Theory Group
• Alexander Lenz, Siegen University
• Hirosi Ooguri, California Institute of Technology
• Gary Horowitz, University of California at Santa Barbara High Energy Theory Group
• Jan Plefka, Humboldt University Berlin High Energy Theory Group
• Lars Bildsten, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara
• Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
    

To sign the accord or for questions, contact: hetpostdocdeadline2024@gmail.com

Deadline calendar for 2026-2052

Background: 

This post-doc accord is the result of the process initiated by the Executive Committee of the Division of Particles and Fields (DPF) of the American Physical Society (APS). For further information see sites.google.com/view/het-postdoc-deadline/postdoc-acceptance-deadline