Tasks
As beamline scientist of FaXToR, you will drive the beamline capabilities and foster existing and potential user communities, collaborate with the beamline scientists at ALBA to push correlative methods within specific scientific programs, interact with the ALBA staff to develop advanced imaging tools at the beamline, promote advanced methodologies for the beamline upgrade and present technical reports and papers.
The following tasks summarize this in a nut shell:
1. Optimize and develop advanced X-ray imaging techniques at the beamline, together with the beamline staff and the corresponding engineers and technicians.
2. Develop novel solutions for smart data collection and processing, in collaboration with the ALBA Scientific Data Management Section.
3. Develop your own scientific program, along the lines of the FaXToR project and, in the larger context, of the Life Sciences section.
4. Participate in the beamline research program of the FaXToR group, national and European projects and collaborations. This may also include the initiation of new projects, if appropriate.
5. Provide support to the scientific users of the FaXToR beamline as a Local Contact.
Requirements
The requirements for participation must be met on the date of the deadline for the submission of applications and will be accredited by means of the CV attached to it, without prejudice to the power of the selection body to require the contribution of the originals of the certifications accrediting the qualifications, training and work experience invoked in the CV.
Applications that do not present the aforementioned or required documentation during the selection procedure will not be accepted.
The successful candidate must have:
6. A PhD in physics, biomedical engineering, or related disciplines;
7. At least one year employment at a synchrotron light facility
The working language at ALBA is English.
Everyone who meets the requirements will be admitted for the selective process. This position is reserved for those candidates having the legal status of person with disabilities, with a degree of disability equal or greater than 33%. In case of one or more admitted applicants with this status of disability, these candidates will be evaluated at first. In the event that no candidate with the status of disability is finally selected for the position, the selection process shall continue and the rest of the applicants will be evaluated.