Scientist in Experimental Nuclear Physics

The iThemba Laboratory for Accelerator Based Sciences (iThemba LABS) is a multidisciplinary research facility that provides opportunities for research in subatomic physics, material research, radiobiology, and the research and development of unique radioisotopes for nuclear medicine and industrial applications.

The Department of Subatomic Physics at iThemba LABS employs numerous experimental facilities to study nuclear structure and reaction phenomena. The K=600 magnetic spectrometer, a high resolution magnetic spectrometer for light ions that is one of only two facilities in the world with the capability to measure, with high energy resolution, inelastically scattered particles and reactions at zero degrees. iThemba LABS also hosts several types of gamma-ray detectors which can be coupled either to the magnetic spectrometer or to other particle detectors.

iThemba LABS was recently awarded a Tier 1 SARChI chair in nuclear physics which was taken up by an iThemba LABS staff member. iThemba LABS seeks to appoint a scientist (on a five-year contract basis) to replace the aforementioned staff member and join the in-house team tasked to ensure optimum utilization, operation and development of the K600 magnetic spectrometer or ancillary particle detection arrays, and utilize these facilities in his/her pursuit of a research career in experimental nuclear physics. The research focus of the scientist will be on photon strength functions and nuclear level densities and/or resonances (monopole and/or dipole and/or quadrupole).