PostDoc at HIPPIE beamline (3 years)

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Your team
The HIPPIE beamline is located at the 3 GeV ring.

Together with SPECIES beamline, it forms the APXPS team, which is dedicated to the development of the Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Program at MAX IV. The beamline provides a wide range of sample environments for in situ and operando XPS measurements. The beamline consists of 5 members who are actively driving multiple in-house research programs, among which are time-resolved photoemission, electrochemistry, high-temperature corrosion, and 2D materials.

The HIPPIE beamline is looking for a postdoc who will:

- Actively drive the development of one or more scientific projects within the time-resolved APXPS using chemical perturbations using the possibilities and capabilities of the beamline and collaboration with user groups
- Interact with and provide support for user groups in relation to their beamtimes
- Actively participate in the continued commissioning of the beamlines and endstations in collaboration with the entire APXPS team.

The postdoc's scientific project can also use other beamlines at MAX IV or other synchrotron radiation facilities. The general surface science environment of MAX IV (which includes a Scanning Probe Microscopy laboratory) can also be employed.

Your main work tasks will be

- Leading and managing the scientific and/or development projects
- Interacting with and supporting user groups
- Contributing to the day-to-day operation of the beamline and the endstations together with the beamline team
- Contributing to the ongoing projects at the end-stations
- Establish collaborative research with other groups outside MAX IV and involve them in APXPS team activities
- Propose competitive ideas for research and development projects that can be realised within the APXPS team
- Acquire and use the knowledge necessary to operate the tools available at the beamlines
- Acquire knowledge about and follow general and organisational safety rules and requirements.

To be successful in this role, you need to have the following qualifications:

- PhD in chemistry, chemical engineering, or materials science. The degree must be obtained no earlier than 3 years before the application date
- Extensive experience in performing and interpreting surface chemistry or model catalysis experiments
- Extensive experience in using and maintaining ultrahigh vacuum instrumentation
- Experience in performing synchrotron-based APXPS experiments on surface chemistry or model catalysis systems
- Experience in performing UHV or Ambient Pressure IRRAS on surface chemistry or model catalysis systems
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Good command of the English language, good communication, and team working skills.

The following are seen as merits:

- Experience with the design and set-up of new surface science instruments
- Experience in programming
- Experience in user support at synchrotrons
- Experience in design and simulation software (Solidworks, Comsol, etc.)

Eligibility
Appointment to the position of postdoc requires that the applicant has a PhD or an international degree deemed equivalent to a PhD, within the subject of the position, completed no more than three years before the application deadline. Under special circumstances the PhD can have been completed previous to the aforementioned three years.

Further information
This is a full-time, fixed-term employment. A postdoctoral fellow is employed under a period
of at least two years and at most three years. The period of employment is determined in accordance with the agreement “Avtal om tidsbegränsad anställning som postdoktor-2022-02-01” (“Agreement on fixed-term employment as a post-doctoral fellow, 2022-02-01”). 

Interviews will be held ongoing during the application period.

On call services may apply.



MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. It will receive up to 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

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