ATLAS PhD studentships at the University of Sussex - Student at U. Sussex (main)

 

Funded studentships cover a tax-free bursary (£14,553 per annum in 2017/18) and home/EU fees for 3.5 years, as well as funding for research training and travel. Additional funding may also be available to support placements with outside partners for a further period of six months in total.

 

The University of Sussex Experimental Particle Physics group plays a critically important role in a number of experiments at the frontiers of our knowledge of particle physics, with main involvement in: the ATLAS experiment and its upgrades at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, the SNO+ neutrinoless double beta decay experiment at SNOLAB (Canada), the NOvA and DUNE neutrino oscillation experiments at Fermilab (USA), and the Neutron EDM experiment at PSI (Switzerland).

 

The ATLAS-Sussex group has major roles in the overall ATLAS Higgs and SUSY programmes. The successful candidate will be working as part of the ATLAS-Sussex group, and will apply advanced data analysis techniques to boost the sensitivity of a key analysis in one of the areas of interest of the group. In addition to data analysis, the candidate will also spend a significant amount of time to work on aspects of the ATLAS trigger, one of the main technical responsibilities of the ATLAS-Sussex group. Regular contact with CERN-based experts over an extended period of time, with the possibility of spending up to 18 months at CERN in the second year of the PhD, as well as regular attendance in person and videoconference to physics and trigger meetings are expected. 

 

Interviews of shortlisted candidates will be held from April 2017 and until the positions have been filled.

 

For informal inquiries on academic matters, please contact Dr Clark Griffith (Sussex EPP PGR Admissions Tutor) at: W.C.Griffith@sussex.ac.uk. 

 

For practical questions about the application process and/or eligibility for funding, please contact Ms Rebecca Foster at: mpsresearchsupport@sussex.ac.uk.

Online applications at: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/phd/apply

 

Please state in the Finance section of the online form that you are applying for STFC/DISCnet funding.