The EU-funded Horizon 2020 programme has two main strategic objectives: to strengthen the scientific and technological base of European industry and to encourage its international competitiveness, while promoting research that supports EU policies.
INSIGHTS is a 4-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks project for the career development of 12 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) at 10 partner institutions across Europe. Two of the INSIGHTS research projects will be carried out at INFN Naples. INSIGHTS is focused on applying latest advances in statistics and in particular, machine learning to particle physics.
The environment
The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) is the Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the laws that govern them. It conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics. Fundamental research in these areas requires the use of cutting- edge technologies and instrumentation, which the INFN develops both in its own laboratories and in collaboration with the world of industry. The Institute is strongly involved into transferring technology to high-tech industrial firms.
The Naples INFN Unit participates in more than twenty international collaboration carrying on experiments in nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics. Naples INFN unit participates in several international experiments worldwide like ATLAS, CMS at CERN, Belle-II at KEK and experiments at Gran Sasso.
When you're part of INSIGHTS with INFN Naples, you will join a dynamic research team that values science, technology, creativity and quality. We encourage new ideas from young scientists. You will work with a supportive international team that includes enthusiastic young scientists as well as senior experimental and data science experts in high-energy physics. INSIGHTS at Naples will have one new position that will support the completion of an experimental PhD thesis on the item below:
- Search for physics beyond the Standard Model in events with top quarks in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. The ESR will play a leading role in data analysis and will contribute to the development of software tools to model the probability distribution in the signal and control samples based on the RooFit/RooStats framework. The project is expected to provide a key contribution to CMS publications and an original research paper on statistical tools and modelling of systematic uncertainties.
A secondment is foreseen for this project at Max Plank Institut für Physik, Munich, for development of Bayesian analysis tools using the CMS measurement as benchmark;
In addition to the scientific research and training, complementary training will enhance researchers' career prospects in both the public and private sectors.
How can you take part?
Do you have a degree in Physics or a closely-related science allowing you to embark on a doctorate?
Do you have strong computational and data analysis skills?
Are you familiar with high-energy physics data analysis?
Do you have experience with software development?
Are you an highly organised person with independent, self-driven personality?
Do you have good communication skills, and good spoken and written English?
Role Description
One ESR position with a full-time employment contract for 11 months with a possible 4-months extension is open for at INFN - Naples Unit. Eligibility conditions: the ESR must, at the time of recruitment:
- be in possession of a university degree
- have not achieved the PhD degree
- have a maximum of four years of full-time research experience, including any period of research training, after obtaining the degree which formally allowed them to embark on a doctorate in the country in which the degree/diploma was obtained or in the host country (irrespective of whether or not a doctorate was envisaged).
ESRs cannot be PhD holders at the start of their employment contract.
The European Commission's mobility rules state: At the time of recruitment by the host organisation, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in the country of their host organisation for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the reference date. Short stays such as holidays and/or compulsory national service are not taken into account.
Proficiency in English is required.
What We Offer
- Employment contract and salary according to the Marie Curie action
- In accordance with the European Commission's allowances for ITNs, there is an additional training allowance to cover training activities, conference attendance, etc.
Selection Procedure
Applicants should send their CV, a letter of intent and two or more recommendation letters not later than 31 of July 2020 to Dr. Alberto Orso Maria Iorio, Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.
For additional information on this ESR position, please contact:
- Dr. Alberto Orso Maria Iorio (Univ. of Naples Federico II and INFN Naples, CMS experiment), Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. È necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.