Research Assistant

Research Assistant Department 1283 - Physics Position Number E32955 Requisition No. TC06245 Salary Range/Pay Rate $15.00/hr. Benefits of Working at Oakland University No benefits are associated with this position. Employee Group/Grade Casual Job Category Casual Posted Casual/Temp Classification Work Schedule Casual (19hrs or less, No Benefits ) Shift/Days Pay Schedule Hour Number of Hrs./Wk. 12 hrs./wk. Position Information Position Information Employee's Effective Start Date 05/01/2026 If this is a Temporary position, provide end date or enter N/A for any other position type. 8/21/2026 Minimum Qualifications Knowledge of emcee, knowledge of astrophysics and introductory cosmology, knowledge of Hawking radiation physics. Desired Qualifications Position Purpose To complete two papers: 1) using the future AMEGO-X and eAstrogam observations to test the abundance of primordial black holes and 2) on probing for signals of weakly interacting dark matter in the cosmic-ray positron fraction observations. Job Duties To run emcee simulations in order to perform parameter scans of astrophysical and dark matter sources of cosmic ray positrons and electrons and subsequently test to the cosmic- ray positron fraction data by the Alpha Magnetic spectrometer.