Job Title | Postdoctoral Research Associate ( BLI11) |
Job Reference | DIA0693/TH |
Post Type | |
Division | Science |
Salary information | Circa £33K |
Application deadline | 24/03/2012 |
Job Description
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located at Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, we enable world-leading research across a wide range of scientific disciplines and industrial applications.
Main responsiblities will be:
- Carrying out in- house research activites;
- Carrying out experiments, analysing data and publication of results;
- Maintenance of the beamline during operations;
- Beamline upgrade, development and testing of new equipment and software;
- Support of users in performing experiments at Diamond;
- Assisting users with data analysis;
- Keeping up with latest results and research directions internationally
Qualification & Experience - Essential
- Ability and initiaive to get to the heart of the problem and take it effectively through to completion;
- Good interpersonal, communication and presentational skills;
- Self motivation;
- Experience or knowledge of synchrotrons X-ray powder diffraction;
- Experience of powder diffraction data analysis (e.g. structure solution and refinement);
- Appropriate First Degree;
- PhD degree;
- Must be available to travel occasionally within the UK and abroad, including overnight absences
Qualification & Experience - Desirable
- Good organisational and planning skills;
- Ability to interact effectively with staff at all levels;
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
- Background in energy (or related) research;
- Experience with X-ray beamline and optics;
- Experience of sample environment equipment;
- Experience with Windows/ Linux/ Unix
Further Information
Applying for employment
For further details on applying for employment at Diamond, please visit our 'Application Form' page.
Appointments will be made depending on the skills and experience of the candidate. Electronic Diamond application forms in MS-Word are preferred. These should be emailed to [email protected]