Postdoctoral Appointee - Accelerator Physics and Free-Electron Laser Science

Contribute to the conceptual design of a compact, wakefield-driven X-ray free-electron laser for attosecond science at the Argonne Accelerator Institute. The postdoc leads beam-dynamics and FEL modelling, including start-to-end simulations that connect injector and linac beam dynamics to FEL output, benchmarking FEL interaction codes such as MITHRA, WarpX and GENESIS, studying high-brightness beams in multi-frequency linacs, shaping electron-bunch phase space for two-colour and mode-locked X-ray pulses, two-beam acceleration with power-extracting structures, and AI/ML surrogate models for design optimisation.

The work feeds a conceptual design report for a compact light source complementing the Advanced Photon Source.

A PhD completed within the last five years, or expected soon, in accelerator physics or a closely related field; candidates with PhDs in physics, applied mathematics, computational science or related engineering fields are also considered.