EIC Group Leader

The mission of the Nuclear and Particle Physics (NPP) Directorate of Brookhaven National Laboratory is to provide state-of-the-art experimental user facilities for nuclear and high-energy physics research and to conduct world leading research in high-energy nuclear and particle physics. The Directorate consists of two departments: the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) and the Physics Department. The Physics Department focuses on theoretical and experimental research in nuclear physics at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, and high energy physics in laboratories around the world. The departments support users from U.S. and international institutions to participate in the particle and nuclear physics experiments, programs, and projects hosted at BNL, and BNL staff members participate in U.S. and international collaborations around the world.

Furthermore, Brookhaven National Laboratory was recently chosen as the building site for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a one-of-a-kind nuclear physics research facility. The EIC will be a discovery machine for unlocking the secrets of the “glue” that binds the building blocks of visible matter in the universe. Beyond sparking scientific discoveries in a new frontier of fundamental physics, the EIC will trigger technological breakthroughs that have broad-ranging impact on human health and national challenges.

The BNL Physics Department is searching for a dynamic scientist as the Group Leader to lead a newly formed Physics EIC Group. To increase the effectiveness of the contribution of the BNL Physics Department to the broader EIC community, all EIC-related experimental activities in the department have been recently consolidated into one research group. The Physics EIC group is expected to grow as the Lab undergoes the transition from RHIC operations to the EIC in the coming years. The successful candidate will lead the contribution of the Physics Department towards the experimental program of the Electron Ion Collider. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.