Deadline: 2016-04-15
Region: Europe
Job description:
A PhD Research Fellowship in Phenomenological Particle Physics is available at The Department of Physics, University of Oslo. The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD-degree.
If the successful candidate has a good knowledge of one Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish, Danish), the fellowship will be for a period of 4 years, with 25 % compulsory teaching (teaching responsibilities at the Department of Physics). Otherwise, the fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory teaching. Starting date is no later than 01.10.2016.
The position is connected to the Strategic Dark Matter Initiative (SDI), a new initiative in the search for the identity of Dark Matter, combining research in astro-, astroparticle- and particle physics, established by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. For more information on SDI, please see: http://www.mn.uio.no/fysikk/english/research/projects/darkmatter/ The PhD-fellowship will be based in the Theoretical Physics Section at the Department of Physics, and will work in the phenomenological interface between particle physics experiment and theory, focusing on Dark Matter models. It is intended that the student also becomes a member of the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and have co-supervisors from the ATLAS group in Oslo. A key ingredient in the search for Dark Matter is to analyze the implications of experimental results, such as from the LHC, on the significant number of models that exist. Members of SDI participate in the international GAMBIT collaboration (a Global And Modular Bsm Inference Tool), which aims to create a new generic tool to facilitate this work, and the student may be involved in GAMBIT. See http://gambit.hepforge.org/
We are looking for highly motivated and competent candidates with a strong background in theoretical or phenomenological particle physics, and an interest in collider phenomenology. Prior experience with LHC physics or LHC experimental activities, as well as good programming skills, in particular with C++, will be an advantage. The successful candidate will interact closely with other members of both SDI, ATLAS and GAMBIT, thus good collaborative abilities are also important.
Candidates without a Master's degree have until 30 June, 2016 to complete the final exam.
More Information:http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1597267/64282?iso=en