You will be part of a dynamic, internationally connected team at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), embedded within the SKA High Energy Cosmic Particles Science Working Group and collaborating with leading institutions across Europe and Australia. The work spans the full arc of experimental physics: from instrument commissioning and calibration to data analysis, with direct implications for our understanding of the most extreme astrophysical environments in the universe.

As the first postdoctoral researcher on the ERC funded SKA-CR project, you will take a leading role in designing particle detectors that will be installed at the SKA to facilitate cosmic ray detection. You will lead a feasibility study investigating whether the detectors can be used to distinguish between muons and electrons in cosmic-ray air showers, a capability critical to constraining hadronic interaction models that are currently one of the major sources of uncertainty in the field. Using Geant...