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Employer:	Forschungszentrum Jülich (Others)
Location:	Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Category:	Postdoc/Graduate Assistant position of: Physics Others (Science & Engineering)
Posted:	Jan. 17, 2012

Job Type:	Full-time
Degree:	PhD
Deadline:	Open until filled

Description & Requirement

With a staff of 4700, Forschungszentrum Jülich – a member of the Helmholtz Association – is one of the largest interdisciplinary research centres in Europe and stands for the next generation of key technologies. Work with us on the grand challenges in the fields of health, energy & environment, and information technology, as well as on the many and varied tasks of research management.

The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) provides scientists at universities and research institutions in Germany and throughout the world with access to neutron instruments of the highest performance class.

JCNS currently has a vacancy at the American Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) in Oak Ridge, USA, for a

PHYSICIST (with PhD) (m/f) or
PHYSICOCHEMIST (with PhD) (m/f)

as an instrument officer for the Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer

Job Description:

Involvement in the operation of the Neutron Spin Echo Spectrometer and the optimization of the operating parameters of all components, for example, as part of Forschungszentrum Jülich‘s commitment to the instrumentation of the planned European high-performance spallation source ESS
Creation and administration of your own research programme at the high-performance source of SNS
User support with a wide range of different measuring tasks
Implementation of your own experiments
Participation in the JCNS research programme with a focus on „soft matter“ and “biophysics”.

Your Profile:

A university degree in physics or physical chemistry with an above-average PhD
Interest in studying challenging scientific and technical issues
Willingness to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with groups of Forschungszentrum Jülich and external users from research and industry
Willingness to undertake official travel (e.g. in the context of conducting experiments at other research neutron sources)
Excellent command of written and spoken English
Well-structured and systematic working method.

What We Offer:

Challenging and varied work in an interdisciplinary and international team
Employment initially for a fixed term of three years but with possible long-term prospects
Opportunity to job share
Salary and social benefits in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service (TVöD) supplemented by an expatriation allowance.

Place of employment: Oak Ridge, USA

Forschungszentrum Jülich aims to employ more women in this area and therefore particularly welcomes applications from women.

We also welcome applications from disabled persons.

contact:
Barbara Küppers
phone: +49 2461 61-5358
www.fz-juelich.de

Application

Please send your application following the specific requirements, quoting the reference code 213/2011TE to:

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Geschäftsbereich Personal
- Personalentwicklung -
52425 Jülich
Germany

Internal Job Code: 213/2011TE

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