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For informal enquiries, please contact Tim Gershon (Professor) t.j.gershon@warwick.ac.uk or Gary Barker (Professor) G.J.Barker@warwick.ac.uk
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Elementary Particle Physics (EPP) Group within the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick.
We are seeking to make an academic appointment and invite applications from outstanding particle physicists able to take a significant role in our research programme with the LHCb detector at the LHC and contribute effectively to the delivery of our undergraduate programmes, including the joint honours degrees in Mathematics and Physics. The appointment will be made at either Assistant or Associate Professor level dependent on the experience of the successful candidate.
The Department of Physics provides an exciting and highly supportive environment in which academics can develop their careers. At Warwick, academic appointments to the post of Assistant Professor who are Research and Teaching focused, are normally subject to a probationary period of 5 years. It is possible to meet the requirements for completion of probation in less than 5 years, and upon successful completion appointment as an Associate Professor is confirmed. The University of Warwick maintains a global outlook, has collaborations around the world, and welcomes applicants of all nationalities. We are fully committed to equality of opportunity and encourage application and enquiries from all suitably qualified candidates.
The Warwick LHCb Group, led by Professor Tim Gershon, has several prominent roles within the international LHCb collaboration. The group supports the maintenance, operation and upgrades of the VELO silicon vertex subdetectors, and carries out R&D on the TORCH particle identification device with a view to its use in a future LHCb upgrade. The group also has responsibilities in Monte Carlo event generation and simulation, and in data processing. The group has diverse interests in the exploitation of LHCb data, searching for physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics through studies of CP violation, rare decays and the properties and interactions of electroweak gauge bosons.
Applications are welcome from all candidates who can strengthen and complement our existing activities within LHCb, but the appointment would particularly suit an applicant with strong interest in development of photon detectors and particle identification. We also invite applications from exceptional candidates having interests aligned with any of our other areas of particle physics, who already hold an externally funded research fellowship or similar research funding.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
Warwick Elementary Particle Physics Group
The Warwick EPP Group was founded in 2004 and has grown to a total of 16 academics (including Royal Society, UKRI and STFC Fellows and ERC grant holders) driving a research programme that covers Energy Frontier Physics, Quark Flavour Physics, Neutrino Physics, Dark Matter and R&D towards accelerators and detectors for future experiments. The group includes a large number of PDRAs and graduate students, together with dedicated experts in both hardware and software for particle physics. We also work closely with departmental officers for outreach, engagement, knowledge exchange and commercialisation.
Department of Physics
The post will be based in the Department of Physics, a vibrant academic department with over 200 academic, research, technical and professional services staff, over 800 undergraduate students and 200 postgraduate research students.
We are proud of our diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and are committed to maintaining excellence in both teaching and research by promoting equality of opportunity for all, within a culture of mutual respect and dignity.
We are pleased to hold an Athena SWAN Silver Award, recognising our ongoing work to advance gender equality for all staff and students. We also hold an Institute of Physics Inclusion Award in support of our commitment to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Further information about working in the Department of Physics and the benefits available can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/physics/staff/working/.
The University supports flexible working and requests for part-time working or job-share will be considered where possible.
Childcare for interviews
Childcare can be provided for you at the University of Warwick Nursery (www.warwick.ac.uk/services/childrensservices/nursery) in order for you to attend the interview. Childcare is subject to availability of places at the Nursery.
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
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** Research Excellence Framework 2021
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CLOSING DATE: Sunday 6th July 2025 at 23:55 (BST)
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We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
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Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. Further information on all of the University's Awards and Accreditations can be found here. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.
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In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).
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