LabVIEW Software Engineer
2022-10-14 08:00 - 2022-12-31 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
LS Instruments AG, a spin-off of the University of Fribourg, is a technology leader in the field of optical characterization of nanoparticles. LS Instruments develops advanced scientific instruments for analytical applications in life sciences, food, personal care, and many more.
Rising investments in the pharmaceutical industry, increasing regulatory requirements for medical products, and the recent successful launch of vaccines based on mRNA technology related to COVID-19 have led to a global increase in demand for high-precision nanoparticle analytical solutions.
In this context, we are enlarging our team and are looking for reinforcement.
We are looking for a dynamic person to join LS Instruments as a LabVIEW Software Engineer to take the lead on the software development effort geared at driving the hardware of our instruments.
For further details please visit the LS Instruments website.

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Lund University
2022-12-22 08:00 - 2023-01-24 17:00
The Division of Physical Chemistry at Lund University is recruiting a

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

with a well-documented background in soft matter studied by scattering methods.

Job description
The candidate should have a strong research profile within soft and/or biological matter that adheres to and is complementary to the other research currently conducted within the division. The applicant’s research should to a large extent involve the use of scattering methods, using both local in house equipment, and large-scale synchrotron and/or neutron facilities. The successful candidate is expected to actively engage in the planned faculty infrastructure platform Center for Scattering Methods, and in the LINXS Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science. The successful candidate is also expected to pursue a leading role in interacting with the ESS and MAX IV facilities.
The person is expected to develop active research, which includes applying for external funding and developing collaborations with other university units and governmental organizations.
The position entails teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The amount of undergraduate teaching will be circa 10-20% of full time. In addition, there will be supervision of bachelor and master student projects, as well as supervision of PhD students. The work assignments of the position, as well as the relative proportions of research and teaching, may however change over time.

The research environment
The Division of Physical Chemistry, part of the Department of Chemistry within the Faculty of Science, performs experimental and theoretical research within the area of colloid and interface science, involving both synthetic and biological systems. A number of different experimental techniques are available within the division, where scattering methods are particularly important. The European Spallation Source (ESS) and the synchrotron light source MAX IV, as key European large-scale facilities for neutron and X-ray scattering, significantly contribute to the scientific life of Lund, and their close proximity has the potential to strengthen the role of the division as an internationally leading center of excellence in soft matter research. The division therefore has strong ambitions to be actively involved, through close collaborations and projects, with both facilities. The division has also a strong active engagement in the LINXS Institute of Advanced Neutron and X-ray Science, and also in NanoLund, the Lund University center for nanoscience.

On-line application can be made at (Deadline 22 January 2023):

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:556566/type:job/where:4/apply:1

PhD Position at San Sebastian (Dynamic Networks in Soft Matter: From Small Molecules to Complex Polymers)
2022-12-27 08:00 - 2023-01-17 17:00
The Polymers and Soft Matter Group (PSMG, http://www.sc.ehu.es/sqwpolim/PSMG/) of the Materials Physics Center (joint centre of CSIC and the University of the Basque Country) at San Sebastián (Spain) is offering a PhD Grant associated to the national Project “Dynamic Networks in Soft Matter: From Small Molecules to Complex Polymers (DYNANET)”.

Application period: 12 -26 January 2023 (please contact us before 15th January). Starting of the Grant: Second half of 2023 (see details below).

The Grant has a duration of 4 years. If the student obtained his/her PhD degree before the end of the 4th year, the remaining time of the Grant would have a postdoctoral character.

There are several possible PhD projects to be performed in the PSMG, of experimental or computational character, and focused on physics or chemistry. In all cases the project will investigate structural and dynamic aspects of soft-matter networks with reversible bonds, in systems as water, polyalcohols, polymers or biopolymers.

Depending on the PhD project, some of the techniques to be used are scattering (neutron, X-ray, light), dielectric spectroscopy, calorimetry, rheology, molecular dynamics simulations, or polymer synthesis, among others. Therefore, candidates of very different profiles, experimental or computational, can apply to the Grant.

The Grant is offered within the call ‘Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2022’, which will be open from 12th to 26th January 2023 (unfortunately instructions are only given in Spanish: https://www.aei.gob.es/convocatorias/buscador-convocatorias/ayudas-contratos-predoctorales-formacion-doctores-2022-0).

The selection of the awarded candidate is expected to be officially announced by June 2023, so he/she would start the PhD project in the second half of the year (incorporation is flexible within the first 3 months after the announcement). The awarded candidate must have an MSc degree by the time of the incorporation to the PSMG, in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Engineering or related areas. Background in soft matter topics and/or in some of the aforementioned techniques will be highly esteemed.

Please note that, though the call ends at 26th January, the application procedure is not fully trivial and needs some clarification (in particular for non-Spanish speakers). Therefore, candidates who are interested in applying to the Grant should send their CV (including marks of their BSc degree, and their MSc if it is the case) to Angel Moreno (angeljose.moreno@ehu.es) before 15th January. Recommendation letters are not essential but will be esteemed. We will made a pre-selection of the candidates and contact them for further information on the steps to follow in the application.
