2023 Summer Placements

Applications for 2023 are now closed

Applications for 2024 Summer Placements will open in early December 2023.

Below are the 12-week summer placements projects which were available to start in June 2023. Follow the links to find out more about each project and to apply. All applications must be made via our online application portal, for further information on how to apply follow the link below.

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Please note that all applications for the placements below need to be completed electronically within our e-recruitment platform. If you have a disability which means that you cannot complete the application within the e-recruitment platform or require reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please email diamond.students@diamond.ac.uk and include ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ in the title of your email.

If you are disabled and would like to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, please let us know via the online application process.

Life Science Placements

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Accelerating biomedical discovery with fluorescent probes and robotics (23001SP)

Recent biomedical advances including anti-viral and anti-cancer immunotherapies, and structure-based drug design are driven by insights from structural biology. Despite notable structure-based successes, membrane proteins remain difficult targets... Applications are now closed

Exploring the size limit of X-ray diffraction from protein crystals using the new VMXm beamline (23002SP)

Protein crystallography has been used to determine almost 200,000 of the structures deposited in the protein data bank. Many of these are from crystals of purified proteins that measure up to hundreds of microns in size... Applications are now closed

The use of ingestible nanoparticles as landmarks for cellular 3D X-ray imaging (22003SP)

Three-dimensional imaging at the water window using soft X-rays is becoming increasingly relevant in answering biologically and environmentally relevant questions... Applications are now closed

Characterization of redox proteins through X-ray crystallography coupled with micro-spectrophotometry (23004SP)

Many biological reactions require electron transfer catalysed by proteins containing metallic centres and/or organic co-factors... Applications are now closed

Fighting Microbes and Cancer on Small Angle X-ray Scattering Beamline B21 (23007SP)

Cationic Peptides are a promising therapy to act as anti-cancer agents, and to target pathogenic microbes that are multi-drug resistant... Applications are now closed

Technical Placements

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Mechanical design of interfaces for serial crystallography at I24 and XFELs (23008SP)

There are many ways in which samples can be positioned within light beams at synchrotrons. At Diamond’s I24 beamline, sample delivery techniques range from single crystals on pins... Applications are now closed

The development of the control system and architecture for an automated acoustic levitation system to facilitate serial crystallography (23011SP)

This project offers the very exciting opportunity to work on a revolutionary sample delivery system for serial crystallography that utilises acoustic levitation.... Applications are now closed

Physical Science Placements

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Size-selected bimetallic cluster production for well-defined model catalysts (23005SP)

This project will focus on producing finely tuned bimetallic nanoparticles by using the dual magnetron cluster source based at the B07 beamline... Applications are now closed

Sample Environment for in-situ soft X-ray analysis of surfaces and interfaces - Integration with Gas Chromatography (23006SP)

This project gives students the chance to investigate sample environments using synchrotron radiation, gas chromatography, and mass spectrometry, enabling them to comprehend how... Applications are now closed

Dude, Where's my Peak? Using Machine Learning to identify Magnetic Reflections (23009SP)

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are proving to be a powerful tool in the analysis of scientific data, capable of using large training datasets of previously collected data to identify features... Applications are now closed

Develop a Kubernetes-based web app to perform simulation and fitting of x-ray magnetic scattering (23010SP)

X-ray diffraction is often employed to determine crystal structures of complex solid or molecules or to investigate strain and stress in materials. A more complex application of x-ray diffraction considers ... Applications are now closed

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