Research Associate in Particle Physics

Job reference: SAE-027029
Salary: £36,924 to £45,163 per annum, depending on relevant experience
Faculty/Organisational unit: Science and Engineering
Location: Oxford Road
Employment type: Fixed Term
Division/Team: Department of Physics & Astronomy
Hours per week: Full time
Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 13/12/2024
Contract duration: For 36 months
School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences

Background

The Particle Physics group at the University of Manchester has vacancies for a Research Associate working on the LHCb experiment at the LHC at CERN. The Manchester LHCb group has members with strong analysis experience across a range of areas including CP violation and mixing studies in the beauty and charm sectors,  Lepton Universality Violation measurements and exotic hadron spectroscopy. The group has a range of detector activities including leading roles in the current Vertex Locator, the Mighty Tracker pixels for the second LHCb upgrade and the Real-Time Analysis project.

Overall Purpose of the Job

Successful candidates will be expected to work on physics analyses and either detector or software projects and their future upgrades. The positions require a PhD or equivalent in particle physics. Applicants will have experience in particle physics data analysis and/or detector development and/or software development for reconstruction, triggering or alignment and calibration activities. The positions will be for a period of two to three years, with potentially opportunities for extension.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy is committed to promoting equality and diversity, including the Athena SWAN charter for promoting women’s careers in STEMM subjects (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine) in higher education. The Department is an Institute of Physics Juno Champion and received an Athena Swan Silver Award and we particularly welcome applications from women for this post. Appointment will always be made on merit. For further information, please visit www.physics.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/equality-and-diversity

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Blended working arrangements may be considered             

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Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Prof. Chris Parkes and Dr Conor Fitzpatrick

Email: chris.parkes@cern.ch, conor.fitzpatrick@cern.ch

General enquiries:

Email: People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

Jobtrain: 0161 850 2004 jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

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