PRR Project

Summary

The tasks to be assigned to the prospective researcher are those normally attributed to faculty members, namely:-carry out scientific research, cultural creation or technology development activities, including preparing project or grant applications in competitive calls at national and/or international level, integrate and/or lead a scientific team, eventually integrate international collaborations;-carry out the advanced training duties assigned to them and guide and supervise the students at different levels (MSc or PhD students), and eventually supervise post-doc positions;-participate in activities related to university representation, scientific disclosure and economic and social knowledge transfer, outreach and training activities;-participate in management activities within the university;-participate in other duties assigned by the competent bodies in the scope of the regular activities of a faculty member.Regarding the scientific research task, the prospective researcher is expected to contribute significantly to the experimental programme at LIP, namely, to actively participate in one or more of the international experiments in which LIP participates, and/or propose new experiments, experimental methods, instruments and detectors, or participate in R&D activities, integrated in a LIP team, leading to future national and/or international projects. The scientific profile required include a strong scientific record in experimental particle and/or astroparticle physics, its technology developments and/or applications, participation in and/or coordination of scientific projects, recognition by the international scientific community.Regarding the teaching duties, these include the proposal and/or responsibility and/or participation in the teaching teams of curricular units proposed by the Scientific Area (SA) (with or without credits assigned), and/or propose topics and/or dissertations at the MSc degree, and/or for PhD students.Regarding the tasks c)-d) specified above, the prospective researcher is expected to contribute also to the corresponding tasks at LIP (participation in the LIP Scientific Council, knowledge transfer, outreach and training activities at LIP, management tasks at LIP, in the scope of the regular activities of a faculty member placed in an associated research institution).In this SA there are several important challenges and opportunities for the immediate, medium and long term, namely the running experiments at LHC/CERN and other large scale research facilities, and the running space missions, the upgrades of the LHC machine and detectors to prepare for the approved HL-LHC run (until 2040), and the R&D activities related to future large scale projects and space and medical physics applications, at CERN (such as the feasibility study for a future circular collider) or elsewhere (the upgraded Pierre Auger Observatory, the high energy gamma-rays observatory in the South America  SWGO – www.swgo.org, the future space missions at ESA and future clinical centres based on innovative radiation and proton/ion therapies). The prospective researcher will be integrated in such teams, reinforcing the SA and the DF presence and contribution to its works, expecting an important increase in visibility of FCUL in the international community.LIP provides the office space and the supporting structure, as specified below, scientific teams well integrated in the international collaborations and community, with mechanisms implemented to support the applications to grants and/or projects in competitive national or international calls. LIP has an external advisory board, comprised of world- renowned scientists, that advise the project leaders at LIP (and the scientific council), regarding their activities and prospects, that meets annually and provides an assessment report of LIP activities. LIP does evaluate regularly – every 3 years – the activities of all LIP researchers (internal evaluation).