Job Purpose: a 1-year research position at the University of Maryland, College Park on a funded project to study embedded charge behavior in dielectric materials. When dielectrics are irradiated with high energy electrons, the electrons become trapped with a large characteristic lifetime resulting in very high electric fields. Perturbation of these charged dielectrics results in spontaneous and catastrophic material failure. Applicant would be responsible for assisting with current experiments and developing new experiments to interrogate the nature of dielectric charging phenomena.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with a computationalist/theorist to design and execute experiments
• Support technical staff and students who are performing experiments
• Data reduction and analysis
• Prepare reports and papers
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Proficiency in the techniques of experimental physics and materials science
• Ability to collaborate with scientists from many disciplines and across the experimental-theoretical spectrum
• A PhD in a related technical field (Physics, Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Nuclear Engineering, etc.) Please contact us if you do not have a PhD but are otherwise qualified to perform this work.
• Knowledge of fundamental electromagnetic theory (e.g. completed at least E&M at the level of Griffiths’s Electrodynamics)

Preferred qualifications:

• Familiarity with the experimental techniques of polymer / solid state physics
• Previous Machining and laboratory apparatus design experience
• Previous work with radiation producing equipment / particle accelerators
• Previous work with radio-frequency electronics

Working Conditions:

• 40hrs/wk
• Working at UMD college park campus
• No US visa support
• Must be able to pass a background check

To apply: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/91827