Postdoctoral Scholar PIONEER
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 5705 - 6500
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Postdoctoral Scholar on the PIONEER Experiment
The Department of Physics at the University of Washington invites applications for a post-doctoral scholar position starting in Winter 2026. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to forefront research at the Center for Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics (CENPA) in alignment with the NSAC 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science. The successful candidate will join a vibrant research environment on the UW Seattle campus collaborating closely with scientists engineers technicians and students at CENPA.
This position is primarily associated with the PIONEER experiment a next-generation rare pion decay spectrometer which aims to test flavor universality up to the PeV scale. The University of Washingtons group led by Quentin Buat David Hertzog and Peter Kammel is developing the active target and the calorimeter employing cutting edge detector technologies (LGADs & LYSO) and fast electronics. Our team also carries a host of simulations to prototype the experiment and develop the event reconstruction of the experiment.
The base salary range for this position will be $5705$6500 per month commensurate with experience and qualifications.
The position is a full-time 12-month (one-year) appointment which may be extended (upon successful performance) subject to funding and mutual agreement. The Postdoctoral Scholar title is limited to five years including postdoctoral experience(s) at UW and other institutions.
Postdoctoral Scholars are represented by UAW 4121 and are subject to the collective bargaining agreement unless agreed exclusion criteria apply. For more information please visit the University of Washington Labor Relations website.
About CENPA
CENPA is a DOE Office of Nuclear Physics Center of Excellence dedicated to advancing research in fundamental symmetries and neutrinos with an emphasis on discovering physics beyond the Standard Model. The Center hosts a broad program including LEGEND He6-CRES Project 8 Selena PIONEER and others. Our professional engineering and technical teams provide world-class expertise in instrumentation prototyping detector development and experiment execution. For more information about CENPA and its research programs please see the CENPA Annual Reports.
The successful applicant should have a Ph.D. or foreign equivalent by the time they start at the University of Washington.
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