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PhD position: Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G)

Remuneration Group 13 | Limited: 3 years | Starting date: Fall 2025 | ID: APDO007/2025 | Deadline: 15.05.2025 | Full-time/Part-time

DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

DESY hosts one of the leading groups in neutrino astronomy, contributing to the construction and operation of the IceCube detector at South Pole, and the Radio Neutrino Observatory Greenland (RNO-G). The group also plays a key role for the IceCube Upgrade and performs R&D for a future generation neutrino detector, called IceCube-Gen2.

Radio detection of neutrinos targets the neutrino energy range around EeV. In this emerging field several tasks from simulation work to method development to hardware work have to be performed. DESY is one of the leading groups in RNO-G and the group has recently been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. We are currently searching for a Ph.D. candidate with strong programming skills and the desire to be involved in all aspects of RNO-G, combining commissioning data into the first physics analyses. An open mind towards hardware-work in advantageous.