TWO POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS
RELATIVISTIC HEAVY ION PHYSICS
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invites candidates to apply for two Postdoctoral Research Associate positions with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics group. Our group is working both on the ALICE experiment at the LHC and on the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. Within ALICE our main responsibilities are focused on the Electromagnetic Calorimeter, whereas at PHENIX we are primarily working with the Muon Arm Detector. We also have a very close collaboration with the High Energy Reactions Group at ORNL, and we expect our postdocs will spend substantial time at ORNL. We expect that one post doc will focus primarily on the ALICE experiment and the other on the PHENIX experiment. The successful candidates will be expected to mentor graduate students and to travel extensively to CERN and/or BNL. The successful candidates are required to have a Ph.D. in physics with experience in nuclear or high energy physics.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a publication list, a brief research statement, and should arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to Prof. Soren Sorensen, 401 Nielsen Physics Building, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1200 (preferably via email to sorensen@utk.edu).
We assume the successful candidates will start in the positions in the time period August 1, 2012 – January 1, 2013. The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services.
