Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Very Cold Neutron moderator and instrumentation development

This position is funded from the European HighNESS project "Development of High Intensity Neutron Sources at the ESS", which has the goal to enhance intensities of cold, very cold and ultra-cold neutrons (CN, VCN and UCN) for future applications in fundamental physics and condensed matter research. Within an international collaboration, ILL is involved in conceptual designs of novel VCN and UCN sources which promise large gains beyond the current state of the art. Towards this goal, the postdoctoral fellow will perform basic research on promising moderator materials using ILL’s instrument suite, and explore new concepts for neutron transport from the moderator to an experiment. The successful candidate will co-advise a HighNESS Ph.D. student to be hired timely, and also collaborate with other members of the HighNESS Consortium.