Researcher APXPS

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Your Team

The HIPPIE beamline is located at the 3 GeV ring.

Together with SPECIES beamline, it forms the “APXPS group”, which is focussed on the development of the Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Program at MAX IV. The beamlines provide a wide range of sample environments for in situ and operando XPS and XAS across 4 instruments and numerous sample environments. The group consists of approximately 10 members including scientists, engineers and postdocs who are actively driving multiple in-house research/development projects, among which are time-resolved photoemission, electrochemistry, high-temperature corrosion, photocatalysis and thin-film deposition.

Would you like to work at one of the brightest lightsources in the world?

Role Overview

The HIPPIE beamline is looking for a scientist who will:

• Interact with and provide support for user groups in relation to their beamtimes
• Participate in the maintenance, development, commissioning of the HIPPIE beamline and its endstations
• Actively drive the development of one or more scientific projects, including within the topic of time-resolved APXPS, using the capabilities of the HIPPIE and SPECIES beamlines in collaboration with user groups.

Main Work Tasks

Your main work tasks will be to:

• Interact with and support user groups at the HIPPIE beamline (including on-call work)
• Handle the day-to-day operation of the HIPPIE beamline and endstations together with the other beamline staff
• Have primary responsibility for ensuring the operational status of the “solid-gas” endstation at HIPPIE
• Lead and manage development projects at HIPPIE, as well as contribute to projects at SPECIES
• Establish collaborative research with other groups outside MAX IV and involve them in APXPS team activities
• Propose competitive ideas for development projects and research that can be realised within the APXPS group
• Operate the HIPPIE beamline, end stations and auxiliary beamlines
• Support postdoctoral researchers and PhD students associated with the APXPS group.

Qualifications/Experience

To be qualified for this role, you will need to have the following qualifications/experience:

• Have a PhD in chemistry, physics or closely related subject
• At least three years of professional research experience (after PhD) in the field of synchrotron-based APXPS, including performing and interpreting operando photoemission experiments
• Extensive experience in using and maintaining ultrahigh vacuum instrumentation
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Excellent command of the English language, good communication, and team working skills.

Additional Merits

The following are seen as merits:

• Experience in user support at synchrotrons
• Experience with the design, set-up and commissioning of new surface science instruments
• Experience with IR spectroscopy, XAS or Mass Spectrometry
• Experience with time-resolved spectroscopy with surface chemistry systems
• Experience in the fields of surface catalysis, electrochemistry or thin-film deposition
• Experience in programming in Python
• Experience in handling large spectroscopy datasets
• Experience in assisting with the supervision of PhD or postdoc projects.

What We Offer

When you join our MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientists from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

Further Information

For further information, please visit:

• Lund University Careers
• Sweden Information
• MAX IV Benefits

Probationary period may apply.

MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research infrastructure hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden and abroad, with intense x-rays and state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Its 16 beamlines receive up to 2,000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-rays.

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