Vacancy No. 187/2025

Physicist (f/m/d)

The Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP) at KIT invites applications for a postdoctoral position (f/m/d) in (Astro)Particle Physics. Our group has long-standing experience in rare-event searches and is a member of the XENON and XLZD collaborations searching for Dark Matter. The position is targeted to advance the state-of-art knowledge on liquid xenon time projection chambers with the goal to build the XLZD Observatory.

Job description
  • operate a liquid xenon time projection chamber at KIT and collaborate on sensitivity studies to rare processes in the next generation detector XLZD
  • operation of the gas system
  • data acquisition of the detector
  • optimizing the detector system and lead its construction and test measurements at KIT.
Personal qualification
  • you are an enthusiastic experimentalist holding a master’s degree university or equivalent) in physics and have completed a doctorate in particle/astroparticle physics or a related field with relevant experience
  • work experience with time projection chambers, acquisition and electronics of particle-physics experiments is highly welcome
  • excellent knowledge in software development, modern programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Python) or numerical computation methods are advantageous
  • you will work in an interdisciplinary team, and you enjoy the experience of experimental work
  • participation in international collaborations requires excellent intercultural and organizational skills.
Organizational unit

Institute for Astroparticle Physics (IAP)

Starting date

01.09.2025

Salary

Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.

Contract duration

2,5 years

Application up to

19.06.2025

Contact person in line-management

For further information, please contact Yanina Biondi  (yanina.biondi@kit.edu, phone: +49 721 6082 2702).  Please send your application including a cover letter, your CV, and all certificates in electronic form (preferably as a single pdf file).

Application

Please apply online using the button below for this vacancy number 187/2025 .
Personnel Support is provided by 

Ms Ratzel
phone: +49 721 608-25544,

Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

We prefer to balance the number of employees (f/m/d). Therefore we kindly ask female applicants to apply for this job.
Recognized severely disabled persons will be preferred if they are equally qualified.

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