Associate Professor — SHiP Lead for Hidden Particles

Imperial Enterprise; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College London invites applications from experimental particle physicists to establish an internationally leading research programme in searches for hidden-sector and feebly interacting particles at the intensity frontier.

The appointee will contribute to teaching, student supervision, and funding applications while shaping SHiP at CERN, including detector development, simulation and data analysis, with broad opportunities across related experiments.

Qualifications

• PhD in physics or closely related field.
• Strong record in experimental particle physics within a major international collaboration.
• Experience in collider, fixed-target, beam-dump or neutrino experiments.
• Ability to lead a SHiP programme and plan detector development, simulation, reconstruction, data analysis and interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Establish an internationally leading research programme in hidden-sector and feebly interacting particles.
• Shape the SHiP experimental programme including detector development and construction, simulation, reconstruction, data analysis and physics interpretation.
• Contribute to teaching, student supervision, and funding applications.
• Engage with Imperial’s related research programs and international collaborations.

Skills

Experimental particle physics

Detector instrumentation

Data analysis

Education

PhD in physics

Tools

Reconstruction software

Job description

Imperial College London invites applications from experimental particle physicists to establish an internationally leading research programme in searches for hidden-sector and feebly interacting particles at the intensity frontier.

The appointee will contribute to teaching, student supervision, and funding applications while shaping SHiP at CERN, including detector development, simulation and data analysis, with broad opportunities across related experiments.