Job Description

Position title: Postdoctoral Scholar-Employee Salary range: Will be commensurate with experience Percent time: 100% Anticipated start: Spring 2023 Position duration: Two years, with possibility of an extension depending on performance and availability of funding. Application Window

Open date: October 13, 2022

Most recent review date: Sunday, Nov 13, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications received after this date will be reviewed by the search committee if the position has not yet been filled.

Final date: Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

Position description

The Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a postdoctoral researcher in the area of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions The research effort will be divided evenly between the ALICE Collaboration at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and the JETSCAPE Collaboration. The research will be carried out in close collaboration with members of the Relativistic Nuclear Collisions Program (RNC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The appointment will be for two years with the possibility of extension for a third year, depending upon performance and availability of funding.

The ALICE groups at UCB and LBNL are leaders in the study of jets and jet quenching in heavy ion collisions. The group pioneered analysis techniques for precise jet quenching measurements over the full jet phase space at RHIC and the LHC, and played a leading role in the recently completed MAPS-based ALICE Inner Tracking System Upgrade Project. ALICE research in this position will focus on jet quenching measurements using LHC Run 3 data now being recorded.

JETSCAPE is a collaboration of theorists, experimentalists, and data scientists, whose focus is comprehensive Bayesian Inference analysis of jet quenching data in comparison to state-of-the-art theory calculations. UCB group members lead the JETSCAPE Bayesian Inference Working Group. This is a computationally intensive effort, requiring large High-Performance Computing allocations together with Machine Learning (ML) techniques to efficiently utilize these resources. JETSCAPE research in this position will focus on Bayesian Inference analysis, including the development of novel AI/ML techniques in collaboration with UCB and LBNL scientists in other areas of Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The job responsibilities in this position are as follows:
ALICE: participate in experimental operations; develop analysis strategies and software for novel jet quenching analyses; carry out data analysis.

JETSCAPE: play a leading role in the comprehensive Bayesian Inference analysis of jet quenching data, by developing analysis strategies and writing software; explore novel approaches based on Machine Learning.

Utilize JETSCAPE to develop new experimental probes of jet quenching that can be carried out using the ALICE Run3 data that is now being recorded.

Write scientific publications and give talks on results from all of these activities

Labor Contract : https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/px/contract.html
Qualifications
Basic qualifications (required at time of application)
Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent international degree or be in the process of obtaining a Ph.D. or equivalent international degree at the time of application.
Additional qualifications (required at time of start)
Candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. or equivalent international degree by the start date of the job. Candidates should have no more than three years of previous postdoctoral experience by the start date.
Preferred qualifications
A Ph.D. in Nuclear or High Energy Physics, with strong emphasis on data analysis and a working knowledge of jet measurement techniques. Familiarity with modern ML tools is desirable.
Application Requirements
Document requirements

Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.

Cover Letter (Optional)

Statement of Research
Reference requirements
3 required (contact information only) Apply link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03660
Help contact: cwelden@berkeley.edu
Campus Information

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Job location
Berkeley, CA

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