The Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research conducts a long-running programme across cosmology and theoretical physics, astrophysics, ontology and systems theory, evolutionary dynamics, information and complexity, epistemology, Bayesian inference, computational humanities, and artificial intelligence systems. The work is performed remotely by a distributed group of researchers, each contributing to a specific component of the programme.
The Institute is currently accepting applications across three distinct tracks. Each track is described in its own section below; current openings are listed under the corresponding heading. The page is updated as positions are filled, closed, or added.
Hiring
Research Fellow — Full-time remote position structured as an independent contractor agreement, with annual gross compensation negotiated against the candidate’s geographic context and prior experience. Fellows work on one of the Institute’s active research directions under a defined annual programme with quarterly deliverables. Publications carry IIIR affiliation and, by default, the Fellow’s first authorship. The Institute provides editorial support, DOI infrastructure, and journal submission where applicable.
Currently Open
Research Fellow — Computational Cosmology (αLGQV Programme). Twelve-month renewable. The Fellow will extend and independently verify the numerical components of the αLGQV programme: N-body simulations of vacuum capture, particle-mesh resolution studies, SPARC isothermal fits, structure-formation tests against DESI DR1, and follow-up work on current journal submissions. First authorship on resulting papers. Direct engagement with the specialist community via correspondence and conference participation is expected.
Requirements: PhD in physics, astrophysics, or a closely related field (or equivalent demonstrated capability); demonstrated experience with N-body or hydrodynamic simulation codes; publications with DOI; familiarity with at least three papers from Volume I or II of the αLGQV programme.
Send applications to applications@interdisciplinary-institute.org
Careers
Affiliated Researcher — A part-time, multi-year arrangement for researchers already holding a primary position elsewhere who wish to develop a specific line of work within the IIIR programme. Affiliation entails IIIR co-affiliation on resulting publications and access to the Institute’s editorial and submission infrastructure. Modest project-based stipends are available where appropriate; the primary value is institutional standing for heterodox or boundary-crossing lines of work that would not be supported by the researcher’s primary institution.
Affiliation is appropriate for established researchers whose work crosses disciplinary lines, examines foundational assumptions, or develops frameworks that current institutional structures find difficult to evaluate. It is also appropriate for late-career or post-academic researchers seeking a continuing scholarly home outside the conventional university structure.
Currently Open
Affiliated Researcher — Open Programme. Applications are accepted across all nine of the Institute’s active research directions. The proposal should identify the specific direction, the line of work the candidate intends to develop, its expected outputs over a twelve-month horizon, and the relation to existing IIIR publications in that direction.
Requirements: Active research record with DOI publications; a 2–3 page proposal as described above; explicit reference to at least two existing IIIR publications.
Send applications to applications@interdisciplinary-institute.org
Grants
Project Grant — A one-time engagement for the execution of a clearly defined research task with a single deliverable, typically a paper with DOI deposited on Zenodo. Grants are listed individually below with task description, expected output, timeline, and stipend on completion. Suitable for researchers between positions, late-stage PhD candidates, post-PhD researchers, or specialists able to take on a focused subcontract.
Grants differ from the Hiring and Careers tracks in that the relationship terminates with the delivery of the agreed output. First authorship belongs to the executor; IIIR is acknowledged as commissioning institution and, where substantive theoretical input is involved, as co-author.
Currently Open
Project Grant — Independent Numerical Verification of α from Lattice QCD. Six-month timeline. The αLGQV programme predicts the vacuum–matter coupling α ≈ 0.005 from nucleon sigma terms (σ_πN ≈ 59 MeV, σ_s) and the cosmological baryon fraction, with the observed value α_obs ≈ 0.003. The grant supports an independent recomputation using current lattice QCD results, with explicit propagation of uncertainties from σ-term measurements and a comparison against the published derivation in Zenodo 19017167. The output is a single paper, first-authored by the executor, with IIIR co-affiliation, deposited on Zenodo with DOI.
Requirements: Working knowledge of chiral perturbation theory and lattice QCD literature; ability to compose a publication-ready analysis; one prior publication touching nucleon structure or vacuum condensates is preferred but not required.
Send applications to applications@interdisciplinary-institute.org
Application Format
For all three tracks, applications should be submitted as a single PDF and include:
A current CV with DOI for each listed publication; a cover letter or proposal (1–3 pages, depending on track) describing the candidate’s intended contribution and its relation to the relevant research direction; explicit reference to at least two existing IIIR publications, with a brief statement of how the candidate’s work would extend, test, or complement them; two reference contacts (optional for Grants).
Applications should not duplicate cover-letter content in the CV, nor restate the position description. The Institute reads applications as research documents in their own right and weighs the proposal more heavily than the prior record.
Send applications to applications@interdisciplinary-institute.org , with the track and position title in the subject line (e.g., “Hiring — Research Fellow, Computational Cosmology”).
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. The Institute commits to a response within four weeks of receipt.
Editorial and Authorship Principles
The Institute follows three working principles across all three tracks.
First authorship belongs to the executing researcher. Lead Investigator co-authorship is included where substantive theoretical or analytical contribution warrants it; otherwise the relationship is acknowledged in the standard form.
IIIR affiliation is required on all publications produced under any of the three tracks. Researchers retaining a primary institutional affiliation list IIIR as a second affiliation in the standard format.
All work is published open access with DOI deposition (Zenodo or institutional repository) regardless of subsequent journal submission. The Institute does not impose embargoes on its researchers’ output.
On the Profile of the Researcher Sought
The Institute is structured to support work that is methodologically rigorous but does not fit easily within the dominant research programme of a given specialisation. Researchers whose work is fully aligned with the mainstream of their field are likely better served by conventional postdoctoral positions at established universities.
The Institute is appropriate for those whose research questions cross disciplinary boundaries, examine foundational assumptions, or develop frameworks that current institutional structures find difficult to evaluate. Applications are weighed on the formal quality of the work and the clarity of its connection to the Institute’s programme, not on conformity with current consensus in any specific field.
Send applications to applications@interdisciplinary-institute.org
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