Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and at locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, and the South Pole.

We are strategic risk takers, innovators, and collaborators. We are engineers, scientists, technicians, administrative professionals. We are 1,800 employees advancing knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Fermilab has been at the forefront of particle physics for more than 40 years. We build world-leading accelerators and detectors to conduct some of the most advanced particle physics experiments possible. We collect and analyze the data from those experiments with some of the most powerful computers in the world. We conduct this research on a 6,800-acre prairie, 35 miles outside Chicago, a treasure that has been designated a National Environmental Research Park. 

Open Date: February 27, 2023 

Closed Date: April 27, 2023 

Fermilab seeks Peoples Fellows candidates with outstanding credentials who have the potential to be leaders of the field. The Fermilab Peoples Fellowship attracts outstanding early-career scientists both to enhance Fermilab’s capabilities in accelerator science and related technologies, and to train and develop the scientists who will carry the field forward in the future. 

Peoples Fellows are entry-level accelerator physicists, specialists in accelerator technologies, and high energy physics post-doctoral researchers who wish to embark on a new career in accelerator physics or technology. Peoples Fellows have extraordinary latitude in choosing their research activities and are provided significant research support. 

Current areas of research interest at Fermilab include (but are not limited to): optical stochastic cooling, high intensity proton beams, high intensity neutrino sources, muon storage rings, superconducting magnets, superconducting RF, linear colliders, high luminosity hadron colliders, beam-beam effects and their compensation, accelerator controls and feedback, high power target stations, and computational physics and modeling. 

Term of Appointment: The initial term of the Fellowship for candidates with less than two-year post-doc experience, is a 4-year appointment, eligible to be considered for a second 3-year term. For candidates with two or more years of post-doc experience, the initial term is a 3-year appointment, eligible to be considered for a second 2-year term.

Qualifications and Essential Job Functions Candidates must have received a: 

Ph.D. in accelerator physics or accelerator-related technology within the prior three years. Post-doctoral experience is not required, 

 or 

Ph.D. in high energy physics or a related field within the prior five years. Candidates are expected to have at least three years of post-doctoral experience in high energy physics or a related field. 

 Candidates must have the: 

• Ability to abide by all environment, safety and health regulations. 
• Willingness to respect, understand and value individual differences that embody laboratory principles of diversity and inclusion. 

How to Apply:

• Submit an application via the AJO link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24435 
• Curriculum Vitae 
• Research Statement (not to exceed five (5) pages) giving a focused description of proposed research program(s) as a Peoples Fellow 
• Three Reference Letters (to be submitted by the reference writers at the AJO site)

Additional information is available at Peoples Fellowship Website.

For general information about this position contact Cheng-Yang Tan (cytan@fnal.gov)

Fermilab is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes a diverse and inclusive environment based on mutual respect is essential to our mission. Fermilab is committed to recruiting and developing the most hardworking people and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, country of birth, geography/postal code, disability, marital status, parental or gestational status, or other non-merit factor.

About Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (“Fermilab”) is America's premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, bringing the world together to solve the mysteries of matter, energy, space, and time. The Lab works on the world’s most advanced particle accelerators and explores the smallest building blocks of matter, allowing scientists to explore the universe at the smallest and largest scales by studying the fundamental particles and forces that govern our universe. Fermilab scientists are at the cutting edge of research in dark matter and dark energy, which helped shape the universe and will continue to guide its evolution into the future. In addition to accelerator-based particle physics, Fermilab is known for astroparticle physics, accelerator science and technology, as well as detectors, computing, and quantum sciences. Fermilab is the host laboratory for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) – an international flagship experiment to unlock the mysteries of neutrinos – which will be installed in the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) currently under construction in the United States. DUNE consists of massive neutrino detectors at Fermilab i...n Illinois and the research facility in South Dakota. The far detector will be the largest of its type ever built and will be capable of recording neutrino interactions with unprecedented precision. A global computing infrastructure will make data analysis possible. The experiment will send neutrinos 1,300 kilometers through the Earth’s crust from Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, to the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, a distance that is ideal for discovering subtle differences in neutrino and antineutrino oscillations, perhaps the key to the dominance of matter in our universe. DUNE is the result of an international partnership with funding agencies and more than 1,000 scientists from all over the globe. These critical stakeholders contribute expertise and components, thereby sharing the demands of this ambitious experiment. The Proton Improvement Plan – II (PIP-II), the state-of-the-art superconducting particle accelerator at Fermilab, will power the neutrino beam, operated with the help of artificial intelligence. Another top priority for Fermilab is its partnership with CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and its 3,600-member Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Fermilab leads the U.S. CMS collaboration, which played a crucial role in the discovery of the Higgs boson. The team comprises more than 1,200 collaborators, making it the largest national group in the international experiment. Fermilab also pioneers the research and development of particle detection technology and scientific computing applications and facilities. Fermilab hosts the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center and is home to the Quantum Network (FQNET), where high-fidelity quantum teleportation was recently achieved. Fermilab’s mission is to drive discovery by: - building and operating world-leading accelerator and detector facilities - performing pioneering research with national and global partners - developing new technologies for science that support U.S. industrial competitiveness Fermilab's 6,800-acre site is in Batavia, Illinois and is managed for the United States Department of Energy by the Fermi Research Alliance LLC (FRA), a partnership of the University of Chicago and Universities Research Association Inc., a consortium of approximately 90 research universities. Fermilab serves as a user facility for more than 2,000 scientists and students from around the world and collaborates with more than 50 countries on physics experiments based in the United States and elsewhere. For more information about Fermilab, please visit https://www.fnal.gov/

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