Are you an applied physicist with expertise in particle detectors? Do you want to help build ALICE’s next-generation silicon vertex detector and drive the R&D for the experiment’s future evolution? This could be your opportunity. Take part!

As an Applied Physicist, you will use and develop physics models and conduct research in a multidisciplinary environment to develop new technologies and solve engineering challenges in support of CERN’s research programme.

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the four large experiments at the LHC and a general-purpose heavy-ion detector designed to study strongly interacting matter using nucleus-nucleus, proton-nucleus and proton-proton collisions. ALICE is upgrading its Inner Tracking System with a novel ultra-light vertex detector (ITS3) based on wafer-scale monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) bent around the beam pipe. After the completion of its development, the detector will be assembled, commissioned and installed during LS3 (2026-2029) for operation in Run 4 (2030-2033). In parallel, ALICE has proposed an all-silicon experimental apparatus for Run 5 (2036-2040), ALICE 3, featuring a retractable silicon vertex detector installed in secondary vacuum inside the beam pipe.

The successful candidate will join the Detector Technologies (EP-AID-DT) section of the ALICE Detector and Systems (EP-AID) group.