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Berkeley, California
Sacramento, California
Palo Alto, California
BELVEDERE TIBURON, California
Berkeley, California
Berkeley, California
Merced, California
Posted: 21-Jan-23
Location: La Jolla, California
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 121148
This is a 100% Contract for seven (7) months and may be extended or converted to career status based on the needs of the department.
DESCRIPTION
Physics is a prominent, highly ranked, and research-intensive department at UC San Diego, with 400+ employees, annual expenditures of roughly $50M, annual course enrollment greater than 16K, and over 140K square feet of space in 8 campus buildings. Research and instructional activity occur over an unusually broad range of disciplinary areas, including: astrophysics & astronomy, atomic/molecular physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, controlled fusion & plasma physics, elementary particle physics, nanoscience, and nonlinear dynamics.
Research activity occurs both on campus and in multiple off-campus locations, including: U.S. National Laboratories, such as Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, and LANL (Los Alamos National Lab); observatories throughout the world; Antarctica; Gran Sasso Underground Laboratory (LNGS) in Italy; PandaX experiment at China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL); the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland; also to include the currently constructed Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile. Research collaborations frequently involve other U.S. and international universities, National Labs; research institutes, such as the Scripps Research Institute and the Salk Institute; and/or companies, such as SAIC and General Atomics. Sponsored research activities are funded by 40-50 different funding agencies, including NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, and AFOSR.
Instruction occurs at multiple levels. With approximately 180 students, the doctoral program has a flexible and broad-based curriculum, which leads to a Ph.D. in Physics or a Ph.D. in Physics with a specialization in Biophysics. With nearly 450 Physics majors, the undergraduate major program is one of the most productive in the nation. Students may obtain B.S. degrees with optional specializations in Astrophysics, Biophysics, Computational Physics, Earth Sciences, or Materials Physics, or B.A. degrees with an optional specialization in Secondary Education. A unique 5-year contiguous program leading to a B.S./M.S. in Materials Physics is also available. Lower division courses allow students to satisfy their general education requirements and serve as foundational courses for students majoring in the sciences and engineering.
The incumbent will participate in the field research being conducted near Geneva, Switzerland at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The incumbent will collaborate in conducting experimental particle physics research with colleagues at CERN, Fermilab, and the NSF HDR Institute for Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3).
The Large Hadron Collider is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider with research collaborators spread across the globe. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (or Fermilab), located just outside Batavia, Illinois, near Chicago, is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory specializing in high-energy particle physics.
The incumbent will work under the direction of the Principal Investigator to apply acquired physics skills and knowledge to support research projects with national and international collaborators and participate with the development of machine learning algorithms for real-time anomaly detection at both domestic and international research sites.
The incumbent will assist in the management of day-to-day operations of a research study. Some of the duties may include: evaluating firmware designs, managing, organizing and analyzing research data, editing/writing related to project deliverables (including but not limited to research reports, manuscripts, protocols). The incumbent will be responsible for coordinating and closely monitoring some research projects.
Regular professional communication with project teams is expected.
On occasion, this position may require local, domestic or international travel to visit research sites and/or research partners for the purposes of planning, data collection and/or dissemination.
Must be willing to travel back and forth from field locations to UCSD as needed.
Please note this is a 7-month Contract appointment.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree in related area, such as physics, astronomy, computer science, electrical engineering, or data science, and / or equivalent experience / training.
Experience managing, organizing and analyzing research data. Ability to edit / write research reports, manuscripts, protocols. Working knowledge of research discipline, principles, concepts, analysis and/or operations being co
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