Postdoctoral position within the AME-future project as evaluator for Ame2013 and Nubase2013 The Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics invites applications for a post-doctoral research stipend in the area of nuclear structure and astrophysics research. The atomic-mass evaluation AME, created in 1950s by A.H. Wapstra and continued since 1980 with Georges Audi, has gained its reputation in the last six decades from their careful analysis and evaluation of data. The atomic mass tables, the main production of the AME, are widely used in fundamental researches like nuclear structure as well as in applications to astrophysics and nuclear energy. All the available experimental data related to atomic masses (energy data or mass-spectrometric data) are collected and carefully examined. The evaluated values enter a weighted least-squares calculation to yield the best values for atomic masses. The latest published results of the AME appeared in 2003: Ame2003. A new project called "AME-future" is now running aiming at new tables to be published in 2013: Ame2013. This project is structured around a coordinator, Georges Audi, and involves contributors presently from IMP-Lanzhou, CSNSM-Orsay, GSI-Darmstadt, ANL-Argonne and extended with this post-doc position to MPIK-Heidelberg. After Ame2013, the coordinator will be Meng Wang at IMP-Lanzhou. The NUBASE evaluation accompanies and complements the AME by providing a consistent identification of ground-state and excited isomers. Nubase2003 was published together with Ame2003 in Nucl.Phys. The position is open for 2 years starting in mid 2010. The candidate will work at Orsay (near Paris) under the supervision of Georges Audi (amdc.audi -at- gmail.com) and Meng Wang (wangm -at- impcas.ac.cn). The candidate should be a good experimentalist, with a good knowledge about mass measurements, either through energy measurements (reaction - decays - ... ) or mass spectrometry (traps - stored cooled beams - time-of-flight - ... ) The candidate will be one of the evaluators for Ame2013 and Nubase2013. Beyond the evaluation work, his/her specific responsibility will be to adapt the programs of these evaluations to meet the needs of new type of data and new data inspection tools required by the evaluators to assist them in their judgement. With the exception of two programs written one in C, the other in C++, all other programs are written in Fortran. Good knowledge of these programing languages is required. The candidates are asked to submit the usual documents (CV, Copy of Diploma thesis and PhD thesis) to Prof. Dr. Klaus Blaum (Postal address: Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, P.O. Box 10 39 80, D-69029 Heidelberg, Germany).