Stillingstittel:
PhD Research Fellowship in Phenomenological Particle Physics

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.PhD Research Fellowship in Phenomenological Particle Physics

Position as PhD Research fellow in Phenomenological Particle Physics is available at The Department of Physics.

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 work (teaching responsibilities at the Department of Physics). Otherwise, the fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work. Starting date no later than 01.10.2016.

No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

Job/ project description:

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/

Requirements/qualifications:

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition of being a leading research faculty. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.

Applicants must hold a Master's degree or equivalent in particle physics, or related fields.

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.

The purpose of the fellowship is research training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.

The fellowship requires admission to the PhD programme at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The application to the PhD programme must be submitted to the department no later than two months after taking up the position. For more information see:

http://www.uio.no/english/research/phd/

http://www.mn.ui

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo/The University of O

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år