Tenure-track Professorship (W1) „Autonomous Particle Accelerators“

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading research institution in Germany seeks a qualified candidate to lead a working group on autonomous particle accelerators. The role involves expanding research, teaching, and innovation in accelerator technology, participating in funding efforts, and leading collaborative projects across disciplines. The successful candidate will have a PhD, a proven track record in securing research funding, and experience in mentoring junior researchers. Teaching responsibilities include up to 6 hours per week.

Qualifikationen

• The candidate must have established a junior research group in the last three years.
• Experience with funding programs like DFG Emmy Noether needed.
• Proficiency in collaborative work with physicists and engineers.

Aufgaben

• Lead a working group on autonomous particle accelerators.
• Expand roles in research, teaching, and innovation.
• Participate in funding programs and raise third-party funding.

Kenntnisse

Innovative methods for operating accelerators

Junior research group acquisition

AI-based approaches

Electronics and computer science collaboration

Ausbildung

PhD in relevant field

Tools

Accelerator technologies

Jobbeschreibung

Area of research

Other

Starting date

09.12.2025

Job description

We are looking for a personality (f/m/d) who will expand KIT's role in research, teaching, and innovation in establishing novel methods in the design, operation, and research of particle accelerators. This applies both to future accelerators, which can only be made possible through the development of new concepts, and to the efficient autonomous operation of existing accelerators.

The professorship works on topics such as innovative (including AI‑based) methods for operating accelerators in a nonequilibrium state, the development of accelerator designs with reduced size, improved stability, and higher cost and energy efficiency of existing and novel systems, such as compact storage rings. Challenges include the diagnosis and real‑time control of instabilities in accelerators across the entire scale, from heat to collective effects in electron bunches. The implementation and demonstration of research results at the test facilities of the Accelerator Technology Platform (ATP) at KIT and, if applicable, at cooperation partners is expected.

The successful candidate will establish and independently lead a working group on autonomous particle accelerators at the Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT). They will participate in the program‑oriented funding of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers, particularly in the “Matter and Technologies” program. Research topics and tasks in the program include new accelerator technologies, methods of electron beam control and diagnosis.

The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues of the ATP, particularly in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, and computer science. They will raise third‑party funding from national and international sources and actively Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Human Resources (PSE) Kaiserstraße 12 76131 Karlsruhe www.pse.kit.edu support the transfer of scientific/technological results into applications. In teaching, appropriate participation in courses, special lectures, and export lectures is expected.

The candidate has acquired a junior research group in a competitive funding program (e.g., DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group, Helmholtz Junior Research Group, ERC Starting Grant, junior research group from ministries) no later than three years prior to this call for applications.

You will execute large‑scale research tasks with a teaching obligation of 6 hours per week per semester, if you have been evaluated positively. In other cases, your teaching obligation will be 4 hours per week per semester.

This research center is part of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers. With more than 42,000 employees and an annual budget of over €5 billion, the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation.