Role type: Full-time; Continuing

Faculty: Faculty of Science

Department/ School: School of Physics

Salary: Level B: $124,656 - $148,023 p.a. plus 17% super (retirement savings system/pension scheme)

- Join Australia’s largest experimental particle physics group, which has led two successive ARC Centres of Excellence and has roles in Belle II (KeK), Hyper‑Kamiokande, ATLAS (CERN) and dark matter direct detection at SUPL.
- The position is for a experimental particle physicist ready to build an independent research program, ideally in flavour or neutrino physics.
- Investing in you – 17% superannuation, benefits package including salary packaging, health and wellbeing programs, discounted services, and career development opportunities.

The University of Melbourne

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Your next career opportunity

The role balances research, teaching and service, with time commitments typically in the ratio 40:40:20.

We particularly welcome applicants in flavour or neutrino physics, with experience on any leading experimental program; strong candidates in other areas of experimental particle physics will also be considered. You will be expected to set your own research direction.

The School will support you with mentoring, a start‑up funding package and a reduced teaching allocation in order to establish your research program.

What you will deliver

- Deliver, develop and coordinate undergraduate and graduate physics subjects, including specialised content in particle physics, through lectures, tutorials and laboratory classes.




- Lead research within large international collaborations, taking visible roles in detector development, operations or physics analysis, and publishing and presenting the results.
- Build an independent record of competitive grant success and expand national and international collaborative networks and partnerships.
- Contribute to School planning, committees and professional activities while promoting University values, diversity and integrity.

A competitive applicant will

- Hold a PhD in experimental particle physics or a closely related discipline.
- Bring outstanding ability and experience in any area of experimental particle physics.
- Have hands‑on expertise in detector instrumentation, data analysis or scientific computing.
- Demonstrate an emerging independent research profile, with a publication record and leadership experience commensurate with opportunity, and a clear plan for a research program that complements the existing group.
- Have experience co‑supervising or mentoring research students.
- Collaborate constructively within large international experiments, showing excellent communication and relationship‑building skills.

For further information please refer to the attached PD.

What we offer you

- Build future financial security with 17% superannuation




- Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well‑being
- Career development opportunities, including access to a range of tailored programs, such as Academic Women in Leadership, and learning platforms including LinkedIn Learning
- Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work‑life balance and well‑being, including leading parental leave, gender affirmation leave and cultural leave, and menstruation and menopause leave
- Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance, and access to unique cultural and recreational benefits such as discounts for the Melbourne Theatre Company
- Health and well‑being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program

For more information check out our benefits page

Your new team – School of Physics

The Experimental Particle Physics group has four academics, 5 postdocs, 15 PhD students and runs local detector laboratories, a clean room and has access to cryogenic and detectors facilities in the Stawell underground Laboratory. It led the ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale (CoEPP) and leads the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics.

Flavour: a founding member of the Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB electron–positron collider at KEK, Japan, with leading roles in physics analysis, Silicon Vertex Detector construction, grid computing and collaboration governance. Physics interests include CKM matrix elements, new physics in (semi)leptonic B decays, CP violation and lepton flavour violation.

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