Job Summary

Category: Post-doctoral Positions and Fellowships

Institution: The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), Chinese Academy of Sciences

Number of Positions Available: 5

Work Arrangement: In-Person

Job Description

Fellowship Title: International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Appointment Type: Fellowship or postdoctoral award

Location: Beijing, or Dongguan, China

Only those appointments associated with neutron science will be stationed in Dongguan, while all other appointments will be based in Beijing.

Duration: 2 Years

Could the appointment duration be extended? Yes, extension of 1-2 years will be available upon satisfactory performance.

Applications are invited for the International Postdoctoral Fellowship at IHEP. The Fellowship is designed to honor and support outstanding early-career scientists worldwide who will greatly benefit from the unique opportunity to conduct their research at IHEP. Fellows will have the freedom to chose the research projects and a senior scientist at IHEP with whom they will collaborate on their scientific pursuits.

The fellowship is open to both experimental and theoretical scientists, and the research areas cover a wide range of fields that align with the scientific mission of IHEP:

• Experimental particle physics, including neutrino physics, e+e- collider experiments, and high energy frontier, as well as R&D of advanced high energy physics instrumentation

• Accelerator science and technology, including innovative theoretical research and cutting-edge technological R&D for particle colliders, advanced light sources, and industrial/medical applications of accelerators

• Theoretical particle physics and cosmology

• High energy astrophysics and instrumentation for X-ray/gamma-ray/neutrino astronomy and cosmic rays, and CMB experiments and science

• Modern X-ray research at the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS)， including Beamline Methodology and Instrumentation, Beamline Engineering, Control/Computing and Data Analysis, AI for X-ray Science

• Radiotherapy and nuclear medicine

• Applications of synchrotron radiation in Environmental science, Life science, Material science, and Nanoscience

• Positron annihilation spectroscopy and its application

• Computer Science, including Computing and storage, Scientific software, AI and QC computing

• X-ray science and advanced X-ray instrumentation（diffraction ，fluorescence，Compton scattering

• Materials and condensed matter science

•  Neutron scattering science and instrumentation

Compensation and Benefits

• Compensation type: Salary

• Compensation：¥500,000 RMB (approximately $70,850 USD) per year

• Benefits：Health insurance  

• Housing: flats, or ¥30,000 RMB (approximately $4,.251 USD) subsidy per year

• Research Fund: ¥100,000 RMB (approximately $14,170 USD) annually for research, which can be applied to support academic travel, publications, and computing.

Eligibility:

• Early career scientists of all nationalities are invited to apply. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in physics, astronomy, chemistry or a related field, or should expect to receive their Ph.D. degree by the time when the appointment will begin

• Evidence of strong potential for high-level achievement as a researcher

• Ability to work as a team member to accomplish the goals

How To Apply:

Please submit the requested application materials to lianggj@ihep.ac.cn.

• Curriculum vitae,

• A list of up to ten relevant publications, including contributions for multi-author publications,

• A statement describing current and future research interests (3-page maximum excluding figures and references),

• A statement describing past activities and future interests in diversity, outreach, and leadership (1-page maximum)

• Arrange to have at least three letters of reference submitted

Inquiries

Contact: Mr. LIANG Guangjian

Email: lianggj@ihep.ac.cn

Telephone: 86-10-88238366

About IHEP：

The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), is one of the institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has China’s top laboratory for particle physics. We want to understand the universe better at the most fundamental level – from the smallest subatomic particles to the large-scale structure of the cosmos. We also want to use the knowledge and technology that comes from our research for the good of humanity. As well as theoretical and experimental research into particle and astroparticle physics, we have a broad range of research in related fields such as accelerator technologies and nuclear analysis techniques. The Institute also provides beam facilities for researchers in other fields of study.

Working at IHEP are over 1500 full-time staff, as well as over 500 postdocs and graduate students. Particle physics is a very collaborative and a very international field, and we have partnerships and experiment collaborations with dozens of universities and research institutions across China and worldwide.

IHEP’s main campus is at Yuquan Road in the west part of Beijing. The Beijing campus hosts the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider, the BESIII experiment, the Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and most of IHEP’s research and administrative staff. 

The Dongguan campus, is one of China's leading national research facilities for materials science (China Spallation Neutron Source, CSNS). It produces neutrons with an accelerator-based system that delivers proton pulses to a tungsten target through a process called spallation. These neutrons are then directed toward state-of-the-art instruments that provide a variety of capabilities to researchers across a broad range of disciplines, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. In addition, IHEP runs experiment sites at Jiangmen (Guangdong), Ali (Xizang) and Dao Cheng (Sichuan).