Research Assistent / PostDoc - Science Support and Administration in EU-project RIANA

Your Job:

Industrial and scientific partners with high specialization in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology often do not employ the full breadth of techniques to obtain the optimal output for their research. RIANA connects a wide range of European methodological scientists and provides openly support and conduction of experiments within all partners. JCNS is specialized on (neutron) scattering experiments and aims at directing projects to the best neutron instruments within the League of European Neutron Sources (LENS). For this task we need you as a specialist who can bring high level science to world leading instruments. Your tasks in detail:

• Participation in scientific projects at MLZ
  
• Join experiments of current projects and get trained in neutron scattering
  
• Work closely with RIANA core team to support networking between all RIANA partners and European neutron sources (LENS)
  
• Interact with other physics-related RIANA partners to make synergies operable
  
• Present the consortium and networking groups at workshops, conferences, in the public
  
• Present research results at scientific meetings, conferences and as scientific papers
  
• Support the different RIANA working groups in terms of information, organization, cooperation and project management

Your Profile:

• Master and/or PhD degree in physics, chemistry, engineering, materials science or related fields
  
• Relevant experience in experimental work and analysis of experimental data
  
• Experience in neutron scattering experiments mandatory
  
• Competence to communicate and collaborate with scientists, even being from different science areas
  
• Self-motivated personality, with the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team environment on scientifically challenging problems
  
• Very good command of written and spoken English (possibly German, too)

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the opportunity to actively help in shaping change. Here is what Forschungszentrum Jülich can offer you:

• Exciting working environment on an attractive research campus, ideally situated close to the city of Munich
  
• Challenging and varied work in a growing multicultural team of enthusiastic professionals
  
• Visibility of our work in and outside the community, the web, through scientific publications, and at schools and conferences
  
• Participation in scientific projects
  
• Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
  
• Ideal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly corporate policy
  
• Flexible working hours in a full-time position (39 hours/week) with the option of slightly reduced working hours
  
• 30 days of annual leave and provision for days off between public holidays and weekends (e.g. between Christmas and New Year)
  
• Please find further information here: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/jcns and https://mlz-garching.de/
  

In addition to exciting tasks and a collaborative working atmosphere at Jülich, we have a lot more to offer: https://go.fzj.de/benefits

Place of employment: Garching (München)

We offer you an exciting and varied role in an international and interdisciplinary working environment. The position is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary and social benefits will conform to the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund), pay group 13, depending on the applicant’s qualifications and the precise nature of the tasks assigned to them.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, e.g. in terms of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation / identity, and social, ethnic and religious origin. A diverse and inclusive working environment with equal opportunities in which everyone can realize their potential is important to us.