Job ID: MBI167PD125

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, is offering a Position as

Postdoc (f/m/x) in experimental exotic atom research 

 (Full-time employee)

 (Office)

for an initial period of 2-3 years.

A Postdoc position is available from March 2026 to play a key role in the MBI Exotic Atoms group, focussing on antihydrogen formation within the ASACUSA experiment at CERN-AD/ELENA and experiments with a slow positron beam installed at MBI Vienna. The candidate is expected to spend some of his/her time at CERN.

• You will participate in running experiments on antihydrogen formation and hyperfine spectroscopy at CERN and positron beams at MBI and build up and execute new experiments at MBI, together with a group of graduate students and senior colleagues currently involved in the experiments
• supervision of students

• Ph.D.  in experimental physics (preferably subatomic physics or a related field).
• Familiarity with the plasma aspects of trapped charged particles, positron and Positronium physics as well as with atomic scattering physics.
•  Familiar with some of the following techniques: UHV and cryogenic techniques, Penning traps, detectors for charged particles like MCPs. 
• Software skills are an asset, for instance for experiment control (LabView), simulation (Comsol or CST, Geant4) and data analysis (root, Python, C++)

• Interesting and diversified activities in a motivated team of physicists who cover a wide range of expertise from experiment design and construction, analysis and simulation, to theoretical physics.
• Inspiring working atmosphere: Join an international and interdisciplinary academic team!
• Opportunity to gain a profile as an independent scientist
• Possibility to work independently
• The MBI is situated in the city centre of Vienna and offers an excellent working environment.
• An annual gross salary of € 69.028,14 based of the Academy scheme. 

Eberhard Widmann  |  Eberhard.Widmann@oeaw.ac.at
MBI | 1010 Vienna, Austria
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/