The University of Washington invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in experimental physics. Areas of interest include astrophysics, neutrino, and high energy physics. Applicants will be expected to participate in teaching, research, and service, and must hold a Ph.D. by the start of the appointment. Appointments at the assistant professor rank are anticipated. Appointment at the associate professor level may be possible in experimental neutrino physics. In exceptional circumstances, appointment at the associate or full professor level may be considered for candidates who offer extraordinary opportunities to further the University’s commitments to mentoring underrepresented students in the sciences.

Successful candidates will join a department with very strong existing efforts in particle, nuclear, and neutrino physics, and related tests of fundamental interactions. Current research activities include major roles in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the KATRIN tritium beta decay experiment, the ADMX axion dark matter experiment, participation in the D /0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron, the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider in CERN Super-Kamiokande in Japan, and the gamma-ray observatory GLAST, torsion balance searches for new short-range forces associated with extra dimensions, preparations for the T2K long-baseline neutrino experiment, and planning and technology development for next-generation double beta decay detectors (such as Majorana), the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Associated theoretical efforts in the department include wide-ranging work on collider phenomenology, hadronic physics, solar and supernova neutrinos, new physics beyond the standard model, astrophysics, and cosmology.

Applicants must apply on-line. Consideration of applications will begin October 1, 2006 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The University is building a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly encourages applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.