**Job Description**

**SCHOOL/UNIT DESCRIPTION:**

The W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL), (https://hepl.stanford.edu) founded in 1947 as Stanford's first Independent Laboratory, provides facilities and administrative structure enabling faculty to do research that spans across the boundaries of a single department or school—for example: physics & engineering or physics & biology/medicine. The Independent Laboratory concept, in many ways unique to Stanford, facilitates world-class research and teaching. For its first decade, HEPL's operations centered on accelerator research, though following two distinct lines: high-resolution electron scattering under Robert Hofstadter and meson physics under Wolfgang Panofsky. Hofstadter was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize for his work on nuclear form factors. Panofsky developed the immensely successful two-mile-long accelerator at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/) (SLAC), the suc...