UNIVERSITY
OF HAMBURG
Faculty:
Mathematics,
Informatics und Natural Science
Department: Physics
Institute: Institute
for Experimental Physics
The university has a
position open for a
Salary is according to German standard TV-L 13. The
position calls for 39 hours per week and is limited to three years (see also ¤
2 of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz)).
The university intends to
increase the number of women amongst its academic personnel and expressly
encourages qualified women to apply. In compliance with the Hamburg Equal
Opportunity Law, preference will be given to qualified female applicants.
Responsibilities:
The research associateÕs
duties include academic service within the respective academic department or
institute. As a part of their contract, research associates will have the opportunity
to conduct independent research and further their academic education as well as
acquire teaching experience. Moreover, these duties should assist associates in
enhancing and increasing their academic achievements; therefore at least
one-third of the set working hours will be made available for the associateÕs
own academic work*.
Areas of Responsibility:
We expect a strong contribution to our research on the
CMS experiment at the CERN LHC in both data analysis and detector development,
in particular the development of a new pixel detector for the CMS experiment at
the LHC. Analysis of CMS data should focus on Higgs searches or Supersymmetry. Interested candidates will be offered the
opportunity for own research projects and supervision of students.
Our group of about 50 people actively participates in data
analysis as well as development of pixel and strip detectors of the CMS
experiment. Third party funding is available through the federal initiative Forschungsschwerpunkt FSP-102 ÒPhysics with the CMS
ExperimentÒ by the German ministry for education and research (BMBF), through
the Excellence Cluster ÒConnecting Particles with the CosmosÒ by the State of
Hamburg and through the Sonderforschungsbereich
SFB-676 ÒParticles, Strings and the early UniverseÒ by the German Science
Foundation (DFG). Further groups of the Department of Physics are engaged in neutrino
physics, astroparticle physics, accelerator
development and theoretical particle physics as well as astronomy, photon
science and nano science.
A close collaboration exists with research groups in experimental
and theoretical physics of DESY, which is located on the same campus.
Requirements:
Applicants are required to hold an academic degree in
physics plus doctoral degree. An excellent research record is expected, ideally
in both data analysis at particle colliders and detector development, but also
other outstanding candidates will be considered. Strong competence in
laboratory measurements, detector commissioning and calibration will be an advantage.
Preference will be given to
disabled applicants with equal qualifications.
Deadline for applications is 15.02.2012. Later
applications are accepted until the position is filled. Interested candidates
are requested to submit a CV, a summary of professional experience and a
statement of research interests together with at least 2 names for recommendation
letters to: Prof. Dr. Peter
Schleper, peter.schleper@physik.uni-hamburg.de.
For more detailed information, please contact:
Prof. Dr. P. Schleper, Tel.
+49 (0)40 8998 2957, www.desy.de/~schleper.
* ¤ 15 Absatz 1 Nummer 4 Buchstabe a HmbHG