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Diamond Light Source helps thousands of scientists each year collect experimental data. The analysis of this data is incredibly important, and in some circumstances, it can be very complex. Therefore, it is necessary to develop more advanced and intelligent ways of analysis.
This project will allow for the development of both mathematics and modern software engineering skills. The successful candidate. You will be exposed to the cutting edge of data science as applied to experimental physical and life sciences.
To apply for this project, select “20001Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
Diamond Light Source helps deliver world leading science by shining a very bright and small light beam (a few microns) on small samples. The beam of light is generated by accelerating an electron beam using electromagnets. This light beam is then focussed at long distances from the source by specialised mirrors and crystals. Any vibration along the electron beam or light beam path can have a detrimental effect on science experiments - think about holding a very long and heavy camera lens and trying to get a sharp, well focused picture of a distant object.
The aim of the project is to better understand vibration at Diamond, what triggers it, and how to mitigate it.
To apply for this project, select “20002Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
To create the powerful beams of synchrotron light used at Diamond, electrons are accelerated to nearly the speed of light in an area called the storage ring. Beam halo describes the electrons that circulate around the storage ring of the accelerator which are offset from the main beam.
With the planned upgrade of the accelerator to Diamond-II, it is already known that the beam pipe in the new storage ring will be significantly reduced in size. To achieve this goal, a new beam halo monitor will be developed for operation on the storage ring. This monitor will be an optical system which uses visible synchrotron radiation (i.e. photons emitted by the electron beam). With this optical system, images of the beam halo around the stored beam will be acquired and analysed.
To apply for this project, select “20003Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
This is an exciting opportunity to will work in the actively developing research area on the solid-state transformations of inorganic hydrates.
This project gives you a great opportunity to acquire knowledge of the various techniques needed to probe solid-state phase transitions in crystalline and glassy materials, as well as techniques for cryogenic sample preparation and various cryogenic sample environment.
To apply for this project, select “20004Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish
Candida glabrata is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast and common member of the human microbiota gastrointestinal flora. It is a commensal microorganism, however under specific conditions like in immunocompromised individuals, it can become pathogenic, escaping from gut tissues and invading the blood.
In this project you will study and characterise the clearance process of C. glabrata using an established infection model of heamocytes derived from Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly.
To apply for this project, select “20005Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
This project focuses on development of new methods for cryo-Electron Tomography (cryo-ET).
Tomography and cryo-ET in particular are fast developing fields with potential to change many aspects of science and technology, while programming skills are generally prized by many employers. You will work in a state-of-the-art facility for cryo-ET data acquisition and analysis and will help to develop algorithms to improve the speed of data collection, tomogram alignment and the quality of 3D-reconstruction.
To apply for this project, select “20006Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
At Diamond special devices are used to produce synchrotron radiation (SR), the ultimate purpose of an electron storage ring. Depending on the kind of scientific investigation, different devices can be utilised with specific features
With the initiation of a new machine, Diamond-II, this is an exciting opportunity to develop new synchrotron radiation sources at a world-class facility.
To apply for this project, select “20007Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
Central to the XChem platform is SoakDB which is a frontend interface to the SQLite experimental database that allows for designing and executing the lab-based side of XChem. SoakDB is an Excel-based program coded in VBA - it is a critical piece of code packed in a non-optimal envelope. ISPyB is the experimental database for synchrotron beamlines and electron microscopy which runs on a MariaDB cluster. ISPyB is part of the established Diamond software environment and as such is supported and developed, SoakDB is not.
This project involves working with the ISPyB and XChem teams to integrate SoakDB functionality into the ISPyB database and existing Diamond software infrastructure.
To apply for this project, select “20008Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
The control system of the Diamond accelerators consists of many parts which depend on each other as well as key pieces of computing infrastructure. When a problem occurs in the control system, often we must spend time investigating to understand the root cause. With better monitoring, we will be able to anticipate problems, and more easily understand the cause. This will improve the reliability of our systems and allow normal service to be restored faster.
This project will produce web-based dashboards to monitor the status of key control system components and infrastructure, to be displayed in the main Control Room and the Control Systems office.
To apply for this project, select “20009Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
This project will see you working with electron microscopists at Diamond in order to improve the analysis of atomic resolution images of inorganic nanoparticles. The world-leading electron microscopy facilities are able to acquire images of thousands of nanoparticles at atomic resolution in the space of a few hours. This revolution in automated imaging allows the reconstruction in three dimensions of nanoparticles at atomic resolution.
However, the techniques for analysing these datasets are still limited in the number of nanoparticle systems they can be used on. In this project you will extend the applicability by developing new techniques for image segmentation and analysis.
To apply for this project, select “20010Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
For a better fundamental understanding of heterogeneous catalysts, photoelectron spectroscopy is used to study nano-particulate catalysts under reaction conditions. These studies aim to identify the chemical state of the catalyst and/or the adsorbed reactants, intermediates, or products at the interface. Catalyst nanoparticles are usually supported by oxide powders, which pose a major problem, as they charge and induce inhomogeneities, which in turn distort the spectroscopic signal.
During this project you will design thin film oxide support materials, which are good models of industrial catalyst supports but have superior spectroscopic properties with respect to charging and lateral homogeneity.
To apply for this project, select “20011Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
Diamond Light Source has lots of state of the art equipment, used by thousands of scientists to collect experimental results. Due to the individaual nature of each experiment we often have to manufacture specialist supporting structures.
This project offers the opportunity to be at the forefront of a new phase of engineering design at Diamond, in which design is informed by simulation. Working on this project you will be using topological optimisation (TO) to optimise material layout within specified boundary conditions. This technique combined with Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology has exciting posibilities compared to what may be achieved with traditional machining techniques.
To apply for this project, select “20012Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
The Rosalind Franklin Institute has significant interest in the fields of automated or semi-automated image segmentation (partitioning a digital image into multiple segments). This is primarily due to it being a crucial technique in many practical fields such as medical imaging, material science, object detection, recognition and others.
This project focuses on a collaboration between the Franklin and Diamond Light Source to deliver a reliable automated image reconstruction and segmentation pipeline for routine processing of tomographic data at Diamond’s long-wavelength macromolecular crystallography beamline. The main difficulty resides in segmenting very weak contours of image data with low contrast and image artifacts. The project will focus on various aspects of iterative image reconstruction, edge detection, denoising and other image processing tasks required to deliver more accurate segmentation. The developed segmentation pipeline will be integrated into the Diamond software infrastructure, making it possible to process the significant quantities of data collected as fast as possible.
To apply for this project, select “20013Y” on our recruitment portal. Remember that you can apply for up to three projects in your application, if you wish.
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