| Assistant Professor of
Physics – Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
School of
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
University of Texas at Dallas
The School of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics at The University of Texas at
Dallas invites
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Experimental Elementary Particle Physics. Appointment at a higher
rank will be
considered when commensurate with an applicant's
experience. Applicants
should have a PhD in Physics and a minimum
of 3 years of postdoctoral
experience as an experimentalist. The
successful candidate will join the UT
Dallas High Energy Physics
Group's work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN's
Large Hadron
Collider. The candidate will be expected to initiate a program of
detector research and development, lead the group's detector upgrade
activities,
and join in the analysis of proton-proton collision
data. S/he should expect to
teach both undergraduate and graduate
courses and to mentor PhD students.
The UT Dallas group is part of the ATLAS
Pixel Collaboration and is active in
DAQ software development,
online monitoring, and run coordination for the Pixel
detector.
UT Dallas' Tier3gs GRID site, located on the UT Dallas campus with ~
400 cores and ~100 TB storage, is used both for production computing
and local
physics analysis. Currently, group members work on dark
matter/lepton jet and
charmonium analyses. UT Dallas is a
dynamic, growing research institution. It is
located in suburban
Dallas, and it features a strong research faculty, a diverse
student body with nearly 19,000 enrolled students, and a
state-of-the-art science
teaching building.
The salary is competitive. Review of
applications begins November 7, 2011. The
appointment will begin
September 1, 2012. Indication of gender and ethnicity for
affirmative action statistical purposes is requested as part of the
application.
The University of Texas at Dallas is an Equal
Opportunity / Affirmative Action
Employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment
without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability,
age,
citizenship status, Vietnam era or special disabled
veteran’s status, or sexual
orientation.
Individuals interested in the position
should submit a current curriculum vitae, a
letter of interest,
statements of research and teaching, samples of course syllabi
if
applicable, and the name and contact information for at least five
professional
references via the online application system at
http://go.utdallas.edu/pnu111101.
Please arrange for your
references to upload letters of recommendation.
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