Tunnelling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
PostDoc Position Sep 13
University of Liverpool
United Kingdom, Liverpool
SUMMARYA Postdoctoral Research Associate
position is available to work in the group of Professor Ronan McGrath. The role
involves oversight of a range of investigations of the structural and
electronic properties of complex inter-metallic systems, using scanning
tunnelling microscopy and other surface science techniques.
THE POST
You should have a PhD in Physics or a related area. Expertise in tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy is essential, as is technical ability in helping maintain and develop the suite of microscopes. The post is available from 1 October 2013 until 30 September 2015. As research co-ordinator you are expected to lead several of the projects and will also take part in other experiments at UK and international facilities. You will also help with the day-to-day supervision of PhD and MSc students in the group. You may also be asked to represent the group in international collaboration meetings and workshops and management of relationships with collaborating groups. You should have an honours degree in Physics or Chemistry, a PhD in a related discipline and postdoctoral experience is also essential.
We would like to attract excellent, ambitious individuals with relevant skills and high levels of achievement. The ability to work within a team and to support other researchers is essential to this post.
You will play a full role in running the group, including taking part in strategic research discussions and allow the identification of new ideas and concepts, ensuring efficient and high-quality laboratory practice, meeting with students individually or in sub-groups to ensure work is proceeding in the most effective way. You will deploy your scientific expertise to troubleshoot research programmes that have reached critical points and to explore new research directions i.e. carrying out advanced experimental scientific research.
You will also take strategic responsibility for identifying new research opportunities and ensuring that these opportunities are attained – e.g., by carrying out initial experiments, setting up collaborations and helping to draft research proposals to generate initial funding. It is expected that you will be an innovative individual with an interest in applying your research skills to a challenging project – this will require daily decision making in terms of determining the best approaches to solve a particular research problem. There will be a responsibility to liaise with academic staff, postdoctoral research workers and research students.
You will have a flexible approach to change research fields and identify and implement required developments in measurement and synthesis capability. The appointment will be at Grade 7 or 8 depending on experience.
SURFACE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTREThe Surface Science Research Centre (SSRC) was first established as a UK Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in 1989. It holds the distinction of being the only major IRC awarded to the North West region by the EPSRC. At the end of its 10 year ring-fenced funding period, the Centre had clearly established an international reputation as one of the leading surface science centres in Europe. In the post-IRC period, strong commitment by the University enabled the SSRC to continue as a coherent research unit and allowed its unique interdisciplinarity and critical mass to be preserved and enhanced in strategic directions. Today, the SSRC is one of the main research centres at the University of Liverpool and enjoys international acclaim in its own right. Its inherent inter- and multi-disciplinarity is an attribute currently being identified by the UK Research Councils and EU Framework programmes as a key need in European science.
The current research themes of the SSRC cut across the disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science, and combine the efforts of both experimentalists and theoreticians. The overarching ambition of this work is to achieve nanoscale control, design and assembly of function. One of the major strengths of the SSRC is its excellent equipment base, constituting over 25 sophisticated spectroscopic and imaging techniques that routinely allow surface events to be mapped at the nanoscale level.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICSFounded in 1881, when the first Professor of Physics was Sir Oliver Lodge, Liverpool has a long tradition of excellence in research in physics. The Department has retained the top grade of excellence in three consecutive reviews by HEFCE - the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
This considerable achievement reflects the Department's international reputation in the fields of condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and surface science.
The Department is very well funded and, for example, enjoys a high research income per academic staff member from the UK research councils. There is around 40 academic staff who are responsible for the teaching and supervision of approximately 200 undergraduate and 60 postgraduate students. Over 40 full time research and computer physicists, professional, technical and electronic support staff together with extensive laboratory, workshop and design office facilities, support the research groups. Much of our research is carried out in the leading international centres for physics research: CERN (Geneva), DESY (Hamburg), SLAC (Stanford), FNAL and ANL (Chicago), JYFL (Jyväskylä), GANIL (Caen), GSI (Darmstadt), NSCL (E. Lansing), RIKEN (Japan), LBNL (Berkeley), TRIUMF (Canada), ILL (Grenoble), ESRF (Grenoble), ELETTRA (Trieste) and RAL (Oxford).
Further details of the department can be found on the web site www.liv.ac.uk/physics
Apply through Website
THE POST
You should have a PhD in Physics or a related area. Expertise in tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy is essential, as is technical ability in helping maintain and develop the suite of microscopes. The post is available from 1 October 2013 until 30 September 2015. As research co-ordinator you are expected to lead several of the projects and will also take part in other experiments at UK and international facilities. You will also help with the day-to-day supervision of PhD and MSc students in the group. You may also be asked to represent the group in international collaboration meetings and workshops and management of relationships with collaborating groups. You should have an honours degree in Physics or Chemistry, a PhD in a related discipline and postdoctoral experience is also essential.
We would like to attract excellent, ambitious individuals with relevant skills and high levels of achievement. The ability to work within a team and to support other researchers is essential to this post.
You will play a full role in running the group, including taking part in strategic research discussions and allow the identification of new ideas and concepts, ensuring efficient and high-quality laboratory practice, meeting with students individually or in sub-groups to ensure work is proceeding in the most effective way. You will deploy your scientific expertise to troubleshoot research programmes that have reached critical points and to explore new research directions i.e. carrying out advanced experimental scientific research.
You will also take strategic responsibility for identifying new research opportunities and ensuring that these opportunities are attained – e.g., by carrying out initial experiments, setting up collaborations and helping to draft research proposals to generate initial funding. It is expected that you will be an innovative individual with an interest in applying your research skills to a challenging project – this will require daily decision making in terms of determining the best approaches to solve a particular research problem. There will be a responsibility to liaise with academic staff, postdoctoral research workers and research students.
You will have a flexible approach to change research fields and identify and implement required developments in measurement and synthesis capability. The appointment will be at Grade 7 or 8 depending on experience.
SURFACE SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTREThe Surface Science Research Centre (SSRC) was first established as a UK Interdisciplinary Research Centre (IRC) in 1989. It holds the distinction of being the only major IRC awarded to the North West region by the EPSRC. At the end of its 10 year ring-fenced funding period, the Centre had clearly established an international reputation as one of the leading surface science centres in Europe. In the post-IRC period, strong commitment by the University enabled the SSRC to continue as a coherent research unit and allowed its unique interdisciplinarity and critical mass to be preserved and enhanced in strategic directions. Today, the SSRC is one of the main research centres at the University of Liverpool and enjoys international acclaim in its own right. Its inherent inter- and multi-disciplinarity is an attribute currently being identified by the UK Research Councils and EU Framework programmes as a key need in European science.
The current research themes of the SSRC cut across the disciplines of chemistry, physics, biology and materials science, and combine the efforts of both experimentalists and theoreticians. The overarching ambition of this work is to achieve nanoscale control, design and assembly of function. One of the major strengths of the SSRC is its excellent equipment base, constituting over 25 sophisticated spectroscopic and imaging techniques that routinely allow surface events to be mapped at the nanoscale level.
THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICSFounded in 1881, when the first Professor of Physics was Sir Oliver Lodge, Liverpool has a long tradition of excellence in research in physics. The Department has retained the top grade of excellence in three consecutive reviews by HEFCE - the national Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
This considerable achievement reflects the Department's international reputation in the fields of condensed matter physics, nuclear physics, particle physics and surface science.
The Department is very well funded and, for example, enjoys a high research income per academic staff member from the UK research councils. There is around 40 academic staff who are responsible for the teaching and supervision of approximately 200 undergraduate and 60 postgraduate students. Over 40 full time research and computer physicists, professional, technical and electronic support staff together with extensive laboratory, workshop and design office facilities, support the research groups. Much of our research is carried out in the leading international centres for physics research: CERN (Geneva), DESY (Hamburg), SLAC (Stanford), FNAL and ANL (Chicago), JYFL (Jyväskylä), GANIL (Caen), GSI (Darmstadt), NSCL (E. Lansing), RIKEN (Japan), LBNL (Berkeley), TRIUMF (Canada), ILL (Grenoble), ESRF (Grenoble), ELETTRA (Trieste) and RAL (Oxford).
Further details of the department can be found on the web site www.liv.ac.uk/physics
Apply through Website
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