Experiments:CERN-LHC-ATLAS
Deadline: 2015-11-30
Region: Africa
Job description:
The experimental high-energy physics group at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship position in experimental particle physics on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. A Ph.D. in experimental high-energy particle physics and experience with physics analysis in addition to detector hardware and/or software is required.
Witwatersrand is a member institute collaborating Tile Calorimeter, contributing to maintenance, operations and upgrade, with emphasis on high-throughput electronics and radiation studies. The group contributes to searches using the Higgs boson, and has strong interest in jet substructure techniques, Standard Model measurements and Monte Carlo event generators. More details can be found at
A competitive salary package will be offered. The position is renewable annually, for a maximum of up to three years. There exists the possibility of spending significant time at CERN.
Interested candidates should send (electronic submission in PDF format is preferred) a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests and arrange to have at least three letters of recommendation sent to Prof. Bruce Mellado (bmellado@mail.cern.ch) and Dr. Deepak Kar (deepak.kar@cern.ch). Informal quires can be directed to them as well.
Review of the applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the position is filled.