Assistant Professor of Physics — Space & Astrophysics

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The Physics Department at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in a broad open search. The emphasis for the Open search will be in the following areas: Space Sciences, theory or experiment, including space and solar plasma physics, gravitational waves, black hole imaging, gamma ray astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, radio cosmology, cosmic rays, and dark matter; Astrophysics experiment including

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