Doctoral scholarship – experimental particle physics

National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) opens a competition for doctoral scholarship
in the project OPUS 2014/15/B/ST2/03998 (founded by National Science Centre NCN):
“A search for long-lived massive charged particles using the CMS detector at the LHC operating
at proton-proton collisions energy of 13 TeV” in which professor Piotr Zalewski is the principal investigator.

The scholarship is PLN 3,000 per month until the end of the project (→ 2018). A successful applying for further funding will depend, among others, on efficient use of the opportunities arising from the running of the current project.

The main objective of the scholarship is a contribution to a search for long-lived massive charged particles with finite lifetime (decaying in flight) using the CMS detector at the LHC. One motivation is the possibility that dark matter is made of extremely weakly interacting particles (e.g. gravitino).
A discovery of such type of scenarios is currently possible only at the LHC by observing particles decaying to these dark matter ones.

The scholarship may be only attributed to a person who meets the requirements set out in the regulations of the National Science Centre

(in polish: Regulamin przyznawania stypendiów naukowych dla młodych naukowców
https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/pliki/regulamin-przyznawania-stypendiow.pdf).
 

The natural way to meet these requirements is to qualify for doctoral studies at NCBJ

(see: http://grad.ncbj.gov.pl/admissions, the deadline for submitting documents is the 20 Jan 2017) with the principal investigator of the project as the supervisor (prior to submitting documents for doctoral studies a consent of the future supervisor should be obtained). Score at least good at the entrance exam will allow for an additional NCBJ scholarship of PLN 2,200 for the entire duration of the doctoral studies (four years).

Detailed requirements:

• a master's degree (science, physics preferred)
  or a realistic plan to obtain the degree in the first half of 2017 at the latest ;
• documented interest in experimental particle physics;
• an ability to work in an international team;
• good command of spoken and written English;
• programming skills (unix/linux, script languages, C++, root);

More information

Professor Piotr Zalewski (piotr.zalewski@ncbj.gov.pl)
Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych,
ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland

Send your application to

piotr.zalewski@ncbj.gov.pl

Piotr Zalewski, Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych
ul. Hoża 69, 00-681 Warszawa, Poland

Documents:

• application
  including your e-mail address
  and the name and email address of a person who would be willing to write a letter of recommendation for you if we ask them (this could be your university degree supervisor);
• CV;
• personal questionnaire;
• academic transcript;
• university degree (if applicable, if not: an outline of the M.Sc. thesis with planned completion date, which cannot be later than June 2017);
• a list of scientific achievements of the young researcher including publications in reputable journals;
• a list of awards resulting from academic research, scholarships, scholarships and a description of research experience gained outside the home research unit (workshops, scientific training, participation in research projects);
• any other document which may affect the assessment.

Competition opened on: January 2, 2017

Applications must arrive before: 24 pm on January 20, 2017

The decision will be taken on: February, 2017