Hi,
I’m pleased to alert you to this job opening, and that in accordance with the law and good practice, we particularly welcome applications from suitably qualified women and other underrepresented groups.
Beamline Scientist – XFEL Hub at Diamond Light Source
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
Salary £33,963 to £39,955 per annum (Discretionary range to £45,949), dependent upon skills and experience
Full time / Flexible hours considered.
Closing Date 04 October 2021
Hyperlink to Reference: 10619
About Us
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond generates brilliant beams of light from infra-red to X-rays which are used for academic and industry research and development across a range of scientific disciplines including structural biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, earth and environmental sciences.
About the Role
The XFEL Hub at Diamond Light Source is seeking a Beamline Scientist for a full time, permanent position. This person will help with the activities of the Hub and its mission to enable and promote dynamic structural biology at Diamond and at X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFELs). To this end, the Hub is developing tools and methods to enable time-resolved serial crystallography experiments conducted at near-physiological temperatures, especially at XFELs but also at Diamond MX beamlines. We are also working to develop freeze-quench strategies to trap reaction intermediates for analysis by complementary approaches including structural and spectroscopic methods. The scientist will help the XFEL Hub execute a variety of R&D plans, which when successful, will yield robust and routine time-resolved serial crystallography strategies/results at Diamond, Diamond II, and at XFEL facilities. The candidate will also peruse R&D projects that are complementary to the mission of the Hub.
The position will very likely include international travel to XFEL facilities in the USA (LCLS), Japan (SACLA), South Korea (PAL-XFEL), Switzerland (SwissFEL) and Germany (European XFEL) for data collection along with members of the Hub and the international research community.
About You
Excellent interpersonal communication skills, an ability to collaborate in large and complex groups, as well as adherence to best scientific practices are all vital to the position.
Prior hands-on experience with macromolecular crystallography at a synchrotron is required. Serial synchrotron crystallography experience is highly desirable.
Serial femtosecond crystallography (SFX) experience at an XFEL facility is not strictly required but is highly desirable. Moreover, the direct hands-on XFEL experience with time resolved SFX methods at one or more XFEL facilities is ideal.
Benefits
Diamond offers an exceptional benefits package to support staff in achieving a positive work/life balance. This includes 25 days annual leave plus 13 days of statutory and company holidays, along with flexible working hours and an excellent pension scheme. Staff also have access to a range of amenities on site including a nursery, cafes, a restaurant and sports and leisure facilities. A relocation allowance may also be available where applicable.
To Apply
Please use the Diamond online application
The closing date for applications is 04 Oct 2021.
Other information
* Company benefits
* Life at Diamond
Where relevant, and possible for the role, we will consider flexible working arrangements and secondment opportunities.
Diamond attracts talented individuals from around the world and currently employ 44 different nationalities. Reflecting trends in our sector, we employ more men than women (77% men and 23% women as at March 2021). Therefore, in accordance with law and good practice, we particularly welcome applications from suitably qualified women and other underrepresented groups.
If you are disabled and would like to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please let us know via the online application process.
Diamond are members of Working Families (the UK’s work-life balance organisation), we have also achieved the Athena SWAN Bronze award and Disability Confident Level One.
Sincerely,
AMO
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Allen M. Orville, Ph.D.
Wellcome Investigator and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow
Principal Scientist, XFEL Hub at Diamond Light Source
Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Didcot, Oxfordshire
OX11 0DE
United Kingdom