Experimental High Energy Physics - Postdoc at Hamburg U.

 

They are remunerated at the salary level TV-L13 and call for 39 hours per week.

The fixed-term nature of these contracts is based upon Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act (Gesetz über befristete Arbeitsverträge in der Wissenschaft, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed for a period of a maximum of three years, depending on starting time and duration of the project.

 

The University aims to increase the number of women in research and teaching and explicitly encourages women to apply. Equally qualified female applicants will receive preference in accordance with the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HmbGleiG).

 

Responsibilities:
 

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates can also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

 

Specific Duties: Our group is deeply involved in data analysis and operation of the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider LHC as well as detector R&D. Candidates are expected to engage in data analysis on top physics or searches for new phenomena related to Higgs physics, dark matter, supersymmetry, boosted topologies or long-lived particles, possibly including machine learning techniques or in the development of a new CMS pixel detector. Contributions to more than one of these areas are highly welcome.

 

Interested candidates will be offered the opportunity for independent research, advanced training, supervision of students and development of teaching skills in an inspiring scientific environment.

 

The CMS group at Hamburg University consists of about 60 researchers. Funding is available through the University and through third party grants of the federal initiative FSP-104 “Physics with the CMS Experiment“ by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) as well as through the German Science Foundation (DFG) by the Emmy Noether group “Searching for Displaced Signals of Naturalness”. A close collaboration via the SFB-676 “Particles, Strings and the early Universe“ is established with the research groups in experimental and theoretical particle physics of DESY, which is located on the same campus. Further groups at Hamburg University are involved in neutrino physics, detector R&D, astroparticle physics, astronomy, accelerator development, nano and photon science.

 

Requirements:
 

A university degree in a relevant subject plus doctorate. Applicants are required to have an excellent research record and good communication skills.

 

Severely disabled applicants will receive preference over equally qualified non-disabled applicants.
 

For further information, contact Jun.-Prof. G. Kasieczka (gregor.kasieczka@uni-hamburg.de) or Prof. E. Garutti, Prof. J. Haller, or Prof. P. Schleper and consult our website at http://www.iexp.uni-hamburg.de/groups/pd.

 

Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, at least two names of referees and copies of school and university certificate(s).
Please send applications to:magdalene.hack@desy.de.