ESR7: James Gooding (TU Dortmund)

Institute and supervisor information

TU Dortmund University

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity has a strong focus on re­search. The uni­ver­si­ty’s disciplines, e.g. mechanical engineering with its emphasis on production and logistics, physics, biochemical- and chemical engineering, statistics and computer science, as well as education re­search, are well known for their outstanding re­search achievements both nationally and internationally.

Students at TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity can choose from classical subjects and in­no­va­ti­ve courses of study such as medical physics or degree programs in spatial planning, statistics and journalism. The department of computer science has a strong school of machine learning, with one of four German centres for artificial intelligence (Lamarr institute).

TU Dort­mund Uni­ver­sity attaches great importance to social and sustainable development – values to which it is strongly committed. As one of the largest employers in Dort­mund, the uni­ver­si­ty promotes the development and health of its mem­bers and supports good working conditions and equal opportunities.

Faculty of Physics Website

The Department of Physics com­bines excellent re­search in four main areas with a modern and fu­ture-oriented teaching concept. In addition to the classic Bachelor Physics and Master Physics programs, the de­part­ment offers a Bachelor’s and Master’s program in Medical Physics. The department also offers the only international MAster’s program in particle physics (as joint degree with Bologna and Clermont-Ferrand).

In re­search, the faculty has a focus on particle- and solid-state physics. Additional research areas include accelerator physics, with the Dort­mund Electron Storage Ring DELTA and the Center for Synchrotron Radiation as major facilities. Since 2015, the de­part­ment has been expanding its inter­dis­ci­plin­ary focus on medical physics. The Department of Physics is strongly committed to the promotion of its students and scientific staff. In addition to a catalogue of very concrete support measures, the de­part­ment facilitates in­ter­na­tio­nal exchange, e.g. within the frame­work of Erasmus or through the existing scientific networks.

The Dortmund Particle Physics and LHCb group

The successful candidate will work with the LHCb group at TU Dortmund University. The group is led by Johannes Albrecht and comprises more than 20 members, with three academic members of staff, and around eight research staff and fifteen PhD students.  The  group is strongly involved in many areas of LHCb, including the study of rare beauty decays and CP violation. The group also plays a major role in the LHCb trigger, as well as in upgrades to the tracking detectors and trigger. Close collaborations exist to the department of Computer Science, the group is associated to the Lamarr-Institute (German centre for artificial intelligence) and participates two collaborative research centres: CRC876 “Providing Information by Resource-Constrained Data” and CRC1491 “Cosmic Interacting Matters”.

The Dortmund High-Energy Physics group is also involved in ATLAS and astro-particle physics (Ice-Cube, Magic, CTA/LST and others). It has a strong theory group with a focus on beyond Standard Model physics of charm and beauty quarks.