Technical Manager of the X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Facility
- Employer
- Durham University
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- Jan 7, 2022
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Education, Other Education
- Employment Level
- Administrative
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Durham University Durham University is one of the world's top
universities with strengths across the Arts and Humanities,
Business, Sciences and Social Sciences. Durham Chemistry is a world
top 100 chemistry department (QS World University Subject Rankings
2020) and has an outstanding reputation for excellence in teaching,
research and employability of our students. Ranked fifth overall in
REF2014 and first for impact, we are an active and vibrant
department including a strong cohort of early career researchers
and future leaders. Ranked second in the Guardian University Guide
2021, our undergraduate programmes are highly rated outisde of the
Department and by our students. We offer both 3-year Bachelors
(Bsc) and 4- year Integrated Masters (MChem) courses, and students
can study Chemistry either as a single subject or via Durham's
popular Natural Sciences programme. At postgraduate level our
students come from all over the world to carry out research. Durham
Chemistry is part of three Centres for Doctoral Training: SOFI
(soft matter and interfaces), MosMed (Molecular Sciences for
Medicine) and ReNU (renewable energy). Each year we admit around
120 single honours undergraduates and around 45 PhD students. The
department holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. Durham University has
recently secured EPSRC funding for a new laboratory-based X ray
absoprtion and emission spectroscopy (XAS + XES) system to be based
in the department of chemistry. The facility will also include
ancillary equipment for energy materials and catalysis studies. The
facility will be used by internal and external users, including
through mail-in and remote access routes. The post holder will be
responsible, under a management board, for commissioning the
equipment, training users, promoting the equipment and managing
day-to-day operaiton of the equipment. This will include conducting
training at in house and external events, liaising with internal
and external collaborators and the management board, and
identifying ways to ensure the long term sustainability of the
facility (e.g. through relevant experimental or data analysis
consultancy beyond the running of the equipment as a service).
There will also be opportunities to develop collaborative research
in the use of laboratory XAS. What you are required to submit 1. A
2 page maximum CV; 2. A 2 page maximum covering letter which
details your experience, strengths and potential in the
requirements set out above; 3. The person Specification and
Realising your potential approach grids Please ensure that you
submit all documentation listed above or your application cannot
proceed to the next stage.
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