Faculty Openings
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Positions
Assistant or Associate Professor Tenure-Track in Medical Physics and Health Physics
The LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for an Assistant Professor in medical imaging physics, nuclear medicine physics (including theranostics), radiotherapy physics, and radiobiology. The successful candidate will join a strong Medical Physics and Health Physics Graduate Program that is a partnership between LSU and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center.
Open Rank, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track Associate Professor or Professor in Theoretical Gravity & Astrophysics
The LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy invites applications for an open-rank tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor, tenure-track associate professor, or tenured professor level. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, theoretical gravity, including quantum / semiclassical gravity, quantum field theory in curved spacetime, relativistic quantum information, numerical relativity, time-domain and multimessenger astrophysics, computational high-energy astrophysics, nuclear astrophysics and relativistic plasma astrophysics.
Quantum Cluster Hires: Quantum Materials, Devices and Sensing
LSU is hiring six tenure-track faculty in quantum information science and engineering. The searches span five departments across the Colleges of Science and Engineering. The six hires are planned to work as one team with existing LSU faculty.