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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher position at LIPLisbon - Student at LIP Lisbon

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Field of Interest:hep-ex
Experiments:CERN-LHC-CMS
Deadline: 2015-12-31
Region: Europe

Job description:
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early-Stage Researcher position at LIP- Lisbon
 
 
with the AMVA4NewPhysics ITN (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015, proposal 675440)
 
 
 
Lisbon,October 29th  2015  - The Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física  Experimental de Partículas (LIP) is a beneficiary partner of a Marie Skłodowska Curie European Action Innovative Training Network (MSCA ITN) titled "Advanced Multivariate Analysis for New Physics Searches at the Large Hadron Collider" (AMVA4NewPhysics). The network  is led by the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics research (INFN) and  includes 13 other  institutions:
 
    Beneficiary partners: Università di Padova; University of Oxford; Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas at Lisbon; Blaise Pascal University; Université Catholique de Louvain; Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, University of Athens;  Centre Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire - CERN;
 
    Other partners: University of California Irvine, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, B12-consulting, SDG group,  Yandex, and  Mathworks.
 
In the next 12 months the beneficiary partners will be hiring ten early-stage researchers (ESR) to study the Higgs boson and  search for new physics at the Large  Hadron  Collider, employing advanced statistical learning tools.
 
 
 
 
Description
 
The Lisbon section of LIP offers one  ESR  position in the network.  The selected candidate will participate in the research program of AMVA4NewPhysics, performing data  analysis in collaboration with the Lisbon members of the CMS experiment at CERN. The research topic envisioned for the ESR,  who will be hired by LIP with a 36-months full-time contract, focuses on the detailed study of the Higgs boson using  advanced Machine Learning methods for signal extraction and  measurements. Optionally, the ESR will be enrolled in the Ph. D. programme offered by the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon).
 
AMVA4NewPhysics foresees a very rich training programme for the ESR,  which includes the participation to international doctoral schools, workshops, and  conferences, as well as visiting periods to CERN and  to other  European institutions belonging to the Network, plus a three-month secondment at a non-academic institution, attending a stage centred on industry applications of Machine Learning tools.

We strongly encourage applications from female students and  researchers as AMVA4NewPhysics applies affirmative-action measures to ensure gender equality in the recruitment process.
 
 
 
 
Conditions
 
The gross salary amounts to euro  2771.01 per month; in addition, a gross mobility allowance of euro  600 per month   is provided for, as well as a gross family allowance of euro  500 per month  if applicable.
 
All expenses related to travel to schools, workshops, and  network-organized events, as well as the cost of the optional doctoral courses, will be planned and  sustained by the network.  The ESR  will be provided  with office space at the Lisbon offices of LIP, and  access to a cluster  of computers for his or her research work.
 
 
 
 
Eligibility criteria
 
There  are  strict eligibility requirements for the ESR  positions in MSCA-ITN. Please ensure to be qualified before applying, as ineligible candidates cannot be considered.
 
- Applicants should not have  resided or performed their main activity (work, studies, etc) in Portugal for more  than 12 months in the period December 1st, 2012  to November 30th, 2015  (short stays such  as holidays are  not taken  into account).
 
- Applicants should be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers and  should not have  been awarded a doctorate yet. This 4 year  period is measured from the date  of obtaining the degree which would formally entitle to embark on a doctorate.
 
- At the time of hiring applicants must have  acquired an at least four year  full-time University education degree in Physics, formally enabling them to embark in a doctorate program in the country where  the degree was obtained or in Portugal.
 
 
 
 
How to apply
 
Applications must be sent by December 31st, 2015  at 17:00  central  European time to the email address amva4newphysics@lip.pt as follows:
 
1) an email with an attached zip folder including:
 
- A signed application form filled according to the format available at http://www.pd.infn.it/AMVA4NewPhysics/calls/LIP_application_form.pdf (also available in Word document format at  http://www.pd.infn.it/AMVA4NewPhysics/calls/LIP_application_form.odt )
 
- A scanned copy of a valid identification document (Passport or ID card)
 
- A copy of education certificates and  transcripts of records
 
- A copy of the degree thesis and  publications (if any), or hyperlinks to pdf files of those documents
 
Subject of the email should be: FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME APPLICATION (e.g.  “JOHN DOE

APPLICATION”)
 
The total size  of emails to the above address cannot exceed 10 megabytes. If the provided material does not fit in 10 megabytes, candidates are allowed to submit it in multiple emails.
 
2) Two letters of recommendation must be sent to the above address by the same deadline, in a separate email directly by the referees of choice of the candidate. Subject of the email should be: FIRST NAME FAMILY NAME LETTER OF REFERENCE (e.g.  “ JOHN DOE LETTER OF REFERENCE”)
 
 
 
 
Selection criteria
 
The ESR will be selected on the basis of the following criteria (in random order):
 
-    Recommendation letters
 
-    Topic, content, and  score of evaluation of the degree thesis
 
-    Curriculum of studies and  research, as detailed in the application form
 
-    Publications (if any)
 
-    Interview (to be defined after pre-selection)
 
 
 
 
Deadline and timeline
 
1.   Complete applications must be sent by December 31st 2015  at 5PM central  European time. Incomplete applications or applications sent after the above deadline will not be considered.
 
2.   A selection board  will evaluate the applications and  make  a pre-selection of the most promising candidates based on the requirements above
 
3.   The preselected applicants will be contacted to arrange for an interview which will be held by videoconference.
 
4.   Candidates will be notified of their ranking on the day after the end  of all scheduled interviews. The best scoring candidate available to accept the position will be chosen.
 
5.   The selected ESR will be required  to move to Lisbon in April 2016  or before, to formally take service at LIP-Lisbon.
 
 
 
 
Further information and contact
 
Applicants should follow the #AMVA4NP twitter hashtag and  the web site of the network  at http://www.pd.infn.it/AMVA4NewPhysics/index.html  for further announcements and  notices. For clarifications please contact prof. João Varela at the following address: joao.varela@cern.ch

More Information:http://www.pd.infn.it/AMVA4NewPhysics/index.html

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