About this role
- Postdoc Positions: Origins of Irreversibility Employment 1.0 FTE Gross monthly salary € 3,706 - € 5,760 Required background PhD Organizational unit Faculty of Science Application deadline 14 October 2026 Apply now Join an ambitious interdisciplinary research project exploring some of the most profound questions in modern science. As part of the Origins of Irreversibility team at the Radboud Center for Natural Philosophy, you will work alongside physicists, mathematicians, historians and philosophers to investigate the origins of entropy, randomness, chaos and irreversible behaviour in nature. What makes these positions distinctive is the opportunity to pursue specialised research while being part of a genuinely interdisciplinary team. We particularly welcome researchers who are interested in crossing disciplinary boundaries: physicists and mathematicians who enjoy conceptual and foundational questions, as well as historians of physics who are interested in engaging seriously with the content of the science they study. You will be an active member of RCNP. You will collaborate with the other postdoctoral researchers, PhD candidates and senior investigators, participate in seminars and reading groups, contribute to workshops and conferences, and help build connections between mathematical physics, theoretical physics, history and philosophy of physics. There is considerable freedom to shape the precise research direction according to your expertise and interests, provided that it contributes to the overarching questions of the project. The Mathematical physics position will contribute to the mathematical foundations of entropy, randomness and irreversibility, with possible directions including large deviation theory, algorithmic randomness, ergodic theory, quantum entropy, operator algebras and their applications to statistical physics and/or black hole thermodynamics. The Theoretical physics position will focus on g...