Postdoctoral Associate

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The **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. Department of Physics invites nominations and applications for two (2) postdoctoral associate positions beginning as soon as February 1, 2023. Founded in 1868, **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is a leading historically black university (HBCU) located on the Virginia peninsula in the City of Hampton. It is a privately endowed, co-educational, nonsectarian institution. The Department of Physics offers Bachelor’s as well as Master’s and PhD degrees in Physics with emphasis on nuclear, optical, and medical physics.
Duties and Responsibilities
The postdoctoral positions are to be filled in the Physics Department in the group of Dr. Michael Kohl. The successful candidates will be full-time faculty at **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***., but stationed at JLab. The group is actively involved in the investigation of the proton radius puzzle with the MUSE experiment at PSI in Villigen, Switzerland, in nucleon form factor studies (in particular GEn-RP) with the Super-Bigbite Spectrometer (SBS) program at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia, in dark photon searches with DarkLight at ARIEL (TRIUMF) in Vancouver, Canada, and in kaon decay studies with TREK at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan. Possible future involvements include two-photon exchange physics with TPEX at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, and low-energy electron scattering with MAGIX at MESA in Mainz, Germany, and with ULQ2 at ELPH in Sendai, Japan.
The main focus of one position will be on the running and analysis of the MUSE experiment at PSI. A second position will have a main focus on the SBS program at JLab and on DarkLight at TRIUMF. The successful candidate will participate in all aspects of the experiments. Operation and maintenance of Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors will require extended visits to PSI and to TRIUMF, as well as activities at JLab for onsite GEM detector work and shifts taking. The development of GEM detectors is central to both positions. GEM detector development activities include tests, installation, and commissioning of new GEM detectors, operation of existing GEM detectors, GEM data acquisition, GEM data and tracking analysis, and GEM detector simulation.
The appointee will have the opportunity to gain teaching experience as co-instructor and occasional substitute, and through co-supervision of graduate and undergraduate students.
Qualifications
The candidate should have a PhD (or equivalent foreign degree) in experimental nuclear, particle, or high-energy physics (or closely related field). Some prior experience in software (C , Root, Geant4) and in hardware (detection techniques, electronics, data acquisition) is desirable.
Terms and Conditions of Employment
Employment at **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. is contingent upon the successful candidate’s compliance with the University’s mandatory workforce COVID-19 vaccination policy. All workforce members are required to have or obtain a Covid-19 vaccination as a term and condition of employment at HU, unless an exemption or deferral has been approved.
Employment of the successful candidate is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check.

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