Research Positions & Resources

Research Positions

I am always looking for excellent and motivated students and postdocs. For more information on available research positions please contact me. Some information on funding opportunities and some interesting introductory neutrino articles and papers are given below.



Physics Department University of Wisconsin-Madison 1150 University Avenue Madison, WI 53706, USA

phone: +1.608.263.2264 fax: +1.608.263.0800 heeger (at) wisc.edu

Postdoctoral Fellowships & Opportunities

Lawrence Fellowships Livermore

Graduate Research Fellowships & Opportunities

For highly motivated and good students I support the application to NSF, DOE, NDSEG, or other graduate research fellowships. They pay well and give you independent funding. Deadlines are usually in the Fall. For recent postings see:

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - deadline Nov 22, 2010
DOE Graduate Fellowships - deadline Nov 30, 2009
DOE Computational Science Fellowships - deadline Jan 11, 2011
Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowships - deadline Jan 12, 2011
National Defense Science&Engineering Graduate Fellowship - deadline Dec 16, 2011
Hertz Fellowships - deadline October 31, 2011
NRC Research Associate Programs - deadline every quarter
Lindau Conference - internal UW competition in October

Undegraduate Research Fellowships & Opportunities

My group will have openings for motivated undegraduate researchers in Fall 2009 and Spring 2010. Undergraduates have the opportunity to participate and compete in the following competitions:

Conference Experience for Undergraduates - deadline Aug 1 2011
UW Undergraduate Symposium - deadline Mar 1, 2011
UW Hilldale Research Fellowships - deadline Feb 13, 2012
UW Bookstore Academic Excellence Award - deadline Mar 19, 2012
RISE-Research Internships in Science and Engineering

Summer Research Positions

My group usually has several openings for summer research positions. As part of the CUORE collaboration I also advise and support students in the DOE/INFN summer exchange program.

DOE/INFN Summer Exchange Program - deadline April 2010
Research Internships in Science and Engineering - deadline November 2010

Preparing for life as a graduate student ... and beyond

Getting what you came for - A student guide to earning a PhD. Excellent book with tons of advice. I recommend this to every student interested in attending graduate school.
A PhD is not enough! - A guide to survival in science.
Scientific Research as a Career - How to make research a career
Tomorrow's Professor - Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering
So what are you going to do with that? - Finding careers outside academia
Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty by Wendy C. Crone
PhD Comic - the humerous side
Applying to graduate schools... - Talk to your advisors about the schools you are applying to.
Letters of recommendation - Give your advisor at least 2 weeks to write a letter of recommendation.

Responsible Research

The Lab - Avoiding Research Misconduct

Want to know more about neutrino physics and dark matter?

Here are some papers and articles on neutrino and dark matter to get you started:

Celebrating the Neutrino, Los Alamos Science (1997)
Detecting Massive Neutrinos, Scientific American (1999)
Neutrino Physics, Haxton and Holstein, Am. J. Phys. (2000)
Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem, Scientific American (2003)
Neutrino Physics: An Update, Haxton and Holstein, Am. J. Phys. (2004)
Teaching Neutrino Oscillations, Waltham, Am. J. Phys.(2004)
Bruno Pontecorvo: From slow neutrons to oscillating neutrinos, Bonolis, Am. J. Phys. (2005)
Direct Detection of Dark Matter, Baudis (2007)
Neutrino Astrophysics, Haxton (2008)