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The project will be carried out at the “Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie” (Laboratory of the Physics of the two Infinities Irène Joliot-Curie) or IJCLab, which is a joint research unit (UMR) of the CNRS, the University of Paris-Saclay, and the University of Paris. It is located 20 km south of Paris on the Orsay campus and easily accessible by public transport (RER) in 35 minutes from the centre of Paris. IJCLab was created in 2020 from the merger of five UMRs located on the Orsay University campus: the “Centre de sciences nucléaires et de sciences de la matière” (CSNSM), the “Imagerie et modélisation en neurobiologie et cancérologie” (IMNC) laboratory, the “Institut de physique nucléaire d’Orsay” (IPNO), the “Laboratoire de l’accélérateur linéaire” (LAL) and the “Laboratoire de physique théorique” (LPT).
The laboratory’s research themes are nuclear physics, high-energy physics, astroparticles and cosmology, theoretical physics, particle accelerators and detectors, as well as technical research and development and associated applications for energy, health and the environment. The centre has considerable technical capacity (around 280 engineers and technicians) in all the major fields required to design, develop and implement the experimental equipment needed for its scientific activity: mechanics, electronics, computing, instrumentation, acceleration techniques and biological techniques. These technical strengths represent a major asset for the design, development and use of the necessary instruments (accelerators and detectors). The presence of research infrastructures and technological platforms on the laboratory site is also a major asset. Finally, around 90 administrative and support staff work alongside the scientists and engineers.
The post-doctoral student will be part of the Astrophysics and Cosmochemistry (AC) team in the Astroparticles, Astrophysics and Cosmology (A2C) pole. He/she will work with the laboratory staff involved in the COMCUBE project, which includes a teacher-researcher, two CNRS researchers, seven engineers and a PhD student. He/she will also be working with physicists and engineers from COMCUBE’s partner laboratories, in particular CEA-Irfu and UCD, who are also building gamma-ray detectors for the prototype.

The position is located in a sector under the protection of scientific and technical potential (PPST), and therefore requires, in accordance with the regulations, that your arrival is authorized by the competent authority of the MESR.