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Research activities will be oriented towards LHC phenomenology, and in particular the extraction of Standard Model parameters, the development of Machine Learning tools, and the calculation of approximate N3LO corrections to top and jet cross-sections. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with the NNPDF collaboration. 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