Interested applicants must have a PhD degree and should email their curriculum vitae, publication list, and statement of research interests (PDFs preferred) to sukantaatiucaadotin by May 2, 2016. They should also ask three referees to send recommendation letters directly to the same email address by the aforementioned deadline.

Facilities required for research are provided institutionally. They include high performance computing clusters, high speed internet connections, mirror sites of important databases, a well equipped instrumentation laboratory, and a library with exhaustive collection of books and periodicals.

IUCAA is a nodal institution in the recently approved LIGO-India project. Financial support for attending international and national meetings and collaborative visits is available. Information on gravitational-wave research being pursued in IUCAA can be found at: http://www.gw.iucaa.in/ .