[Cugapost] Professor (Assistant or Associate rank, tenure-stream) at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile---a message from Will Brooks

[Rachel Harris]

Job posting: Professor (Assistant or Associate rank, tenure-stream) at 
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.

Field(s): Experimental High Energy or Condensed Matter Physics

CODE: 10.01.28.CC
Application deadline: August 31, 2010
Contact: Dr. Olivier Espinosa, olivier.espinosa at usm.cl 
<mailto:olivier.espinosa at usm.cl>

Job Description: One academic position at the level of Assistant 
Professor or Associate Professor in Experimental High Energy or 
Condensed Matter Physics will be available during 2010 (starting date 
negotiable), at the Valparaíso Campus of UTFSM. An earned PhD degree is 
required. The candidate must have experience in teaching and a strong 
record of research accomplishments in the area of Experimental High 
Energy or Condensed Matter Physics.

The successful candidate is expected to teach courses at undergraduate 
and graduate level, and lead the research effort of the Physics 
Department in his/her area. Good communication skills, both oral and 
written, are essential.

Applications: Send CV, two letters of recommendation and a brief 
statement of research and instructional interests, indicating CODE 
10.01.28.CC, to:

Director, Departamento de Física
UTFSM
Casilla 110 – V, Valparaiso, Chile.
e-mail: marcela.aguirre at usm.cl <mailto:marcela.aguirre at usm.cl>
Enquiries: Dr. Olivier Espinosa, olivier.espinosa at usm.cl 
<mailto:olivier.espinosa at usm.cl>

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Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, is a top 
university in Chile, with an institutional focus on the science and 
engineering disciplines. It has the largest high energy physics group in 
the country, with about a dozen senior researchers, half a dozen 
postdocs, and numerous students and visitors. While the majority of the 
research performed is in theory and phenomenology, the experimental 
program is growing rapidly and includes research with ATLAS at the CERN 
LHC, MINERVA at Fermilab, GlueX/Hall D and CLAS/Hall B at Jefferson Lab, 
and NA61 at the CERN SPS. The local facilities include a detector 
laboratory that has a focus on compact light detection and related 
technologies and applications, and a grid computing cluster that 
performs computations both for local users and for LHC experiments 
through the WLCG grid. Collaborative research in this group is conducted 
with groups in the Electronics Engineering Department and in the 
Informatics Department via the Valparaíso Center for Science and 
Technology and the Center for Advanced Studies in Physics and Engineering.

The Valparaíso campus of the university is located on picturesque Cerro 
Placeres overlooking the scenic and historic Valparaíso harbor. With a 
short metro ride to the south one can access the downtown region of the 
city, including a former home of the famous poet and Nobel Laureate 
Pablo Neruda, and the historic port, which has been designated a UNESCO 
World Heritage Site. With a short metro ride along the coast to the 
north, one can access the modern beach resort city of Viña del Mar, with 
many restaurants, concerts, and cultural attractions. The nation's 
capital and a major airport are about 100 km to the east, near the Andes 
mountain range, which has attractive scenery and skiing in season. Chile 
is renowned for its natural beauty and variety of terrain, from the 
world's driest desert in the North to the verdant South, extending into 
Patagonia.