Job Description

Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Job Id: 3536

School: School of Natural Sciences (SNS)

Department: Physics

Job Type: Contract

End Date: August 12, 2024




Post-Doctoral Fellow - phenomenology in Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics


Job Details


Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow

Job Id: 3536

School: School of Natural Sciences (SNS)

Department: Physics

Job Type: Contract

End Date: August 12, 2024




The Department of Physics in the School of Natural Sciences at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, India, has a postdoctoral position in the field of •phenomenology in Particle Physics and Particle Astrophysics• organised by Dr Arindam Chatterjee and Dr Kenji Nishiwaki. The current activities of the research group include:


• Dark Matter Physics: aspects of direct detection of WIMP dark matter; non-thermal production of Dark Matter; possible connection with the inflationary Cosmology; physics of non-WIMP Dark Matter candidates (in particular PBH, ALP).


• Constraining Dark Matter properties in the light of cosmological observations, e.g. CMBR.


• Signatures of and constraints on new (BSM) physics through present/future collider experiments and various low-energy experiments.


• Physics of neutrinos, e.g., unified model buildings addressing neutrino textures, dark matter and other phenomena.


• Development of methods for the precise calculation of quantum processes, e.g., scatterings of wave-packet states.



Note that a) to c) are for Dr Arindam Chatterjee, and c) to e) are for Dr Kenji Nishiwaki.


The two research groups work closely together through weekly journal clubs and several collaborations. We are also interested in research in new areas related to a) - e).


https://snu.edu.in/schools/school-of-natural-sciences/faculty/arindam-chatterjee/

https://snu.edu.in/schools/school-of-natural-sciences/faculty/kenji-nishiwaki/


Nature of work: The post-doctoral fellow (PDF) will primarily do research on one or more topics mentioned above or associated ones based on discussions/collaborations with the faculty members. The PDF will also academically support the ongoing projects of PhD and undergraduate students in the research group.


Essential Qualifications: PhD in Physics [entitled or at least at the stage of completing thesis submission] with working experience in any one of or more of the research areas associated with the subjects above as a) to e). Concretely speaking, dark matter physics (a), astro-particle physics (b), collider physics (c), neutrino physics (d), and theoretical development in calculating quantum processes (e). Applications from people whose expertise is close to or related to any one or multiple areas, as mentioned above, are also very welcome.


Duration of the Project: Initially for 1 year, which may be extended for another year upon satisfactory progress in your research work.


Fellowship: ? 65000- p.m. (Consolidated)


Eligible and interested candidates should submit their application with a complete CV (having personal details, academic qualifications, research experience, publications, a statement of research including future plans, and also the names, affiliations, and email addresses of two referees) and other relevant documents as attachments. Interested candidates may send these documents to Mr. Pankaj Kumar Manav (Pankaj.Manav@snu.edu.in) in a combined single PDF file . The subject line of the e-mail should be "Full name of the candidate | Application for HEP-Cosmo postdoc position".


(Please do not request your referees to send references at the first stage, i.e. while submitting the application. For shortlisted candidates, we will contact the referees you have mentioned on your CV. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed offline or online. Also, note that the final appointment is subject to verification of the relevant degree.)


Last date of Application: 12th August 2024.


About the Department of Physics


The Department of Physics at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (SNIoE) thrives on integrating teaching with research to bring the excitement of discoveries to the classroom and to involve undergraduate students in research from an early stage of their academic journey. The research topics in the Department of Physics span from a few atoms to the beginning of the universe to the whole saga of materials of technological and societal importance. In particular, the department is committed to equipping all the students, scholars, and faculty members to meet and solve the challenges that contemporary society faces in the area of energy, electronics, environment and economic developments via theoretical, computational or experimental research or a combination of them. The department also encourages active collaborations to pursue interdisciplinary research across the university and the globe. Detailed descriptions of the research interests of Physics faculty members and other relevant information can be found at https://physics.snu.edu.in/about/department.


For scientific computation, the department can avail computational facilities that include a high-performance IBM cluster ("Magus") having 60-node and 992-cores along with two nodes with GPU processors, delivering a theoretical peak performance of ~30TF. Physics faculty, students and research scholars have full and unlimited access to this facility for their computational research. Also, the department has its own computational laboratory where 10 high-performance workstations and 20 high-end desktops are available for conducting teaching and research. Several software for molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, statistic learning, bioinformatics, and cheminformatics are also available. There are also 4 dedicated workstations for the High Energy Physics group.


Our central library is a modern 5-storey building. It provides online access to e-books, electronic journals and databases from APS, AIP, ACS, RSC, AMS, SIAM, IOP, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Nature, and others.


The Physics research laboratories are equipped with basic research facilities, which include a clean room, thermal deposition, chemical vapour deposition, pulsed electron deposition, magnetron sputtering, spin coater, ball-milling, vacuum annealing, high-temperature oven, high-temperature split tube furnaces, hydraulic press, glove box, microwave furnace, fume hoods, bio-safety cabinets, cryostat, XRD, AFM, photoluminescence, Raman spectrometer, PPMS, ellipsometry, FE-SEM, UV-visible-IR spectrophotometers, I-V measurement system, polarisation loop-tracer, polarisation microscope, fluorescence microscope, surface profiler, viscometer, thermal conductivity, contact angle, and many other instruments within the school of natural sciences.