Senior Physics Research Adjudicator
Job Description
This IXO role provides the final scientific reasoning when credible solutions disagree. The aim is a defensible comparison of methods and assumptions, including a clear statement when the field itself does not supply a settled answer.
Work you will do
• Compare rival arguments, solutions or interpretations and explain which approach is stronger under the relevant assumptions and physical regime.
• Identify the criteria that should govern a decision, including the limits of approximations and the points at which a method stops being reliable.
• Use LaTeX, SymPy, Python and Jupyter where useful to check disputed claims or contrast approaches.
• Write assessments that can withstand review by senior researchers, calibrating confidence and identifying genuinely open questions.
Preferred background
• PhD in physics with recognized subject expertise and scholarly impact.
• Current or former associate professor, full/chair professor, PI or group leader with independent research leadership.
• Ongoing relevant research and 3–5 recent representative papers, referenced by DOI or arXiv.
• Experience supervising doctoral researchers or postdocs, or equivalent industry-research leadership.
• Working proficiency with the listed scientific tools; disclose any tool gaps rather than implying experience you do not have.
• The research area may concern material optics or quantum information, AMO/quantum optics, astrophysics and cosmology, gravitational theory, condensed matter, statistical or biological physics, or mathematical/high-energy physics.
Deliverables
A reasoned adjudication that records the preferred interpretation, its scope, contrary evidence and unresolved scientific uncertainty.
Location and schedule
Remote. Subject assignment depends on demonstrated subfield expertise, including theoretical, condensed-matter, AMO, quantum-information or other stated physics areas. Scope and timing are agreed before work; no fixed duration or guaranteed weekly hours are stated.
Pay and working terms
$85 • $170/hr USD. IXO will agree the assignment scope, hourly rate, schedule and acceptance criteria before work begins. Work is a paid remote expert engagement; applying does not guarantee an assignment. Use only public, licensed or otherwise authorized material. Do not provide confidential employer information, personal data or restricted research.