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Description

CLSI is now accepting applications for a Scientist or Senior Scientist position within our Bio/Life Sciences department on the Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Facility (BMIT) beamlines. Biomedical imaging and Therapy facility is a set of two beamlines (05ID-2 and 05B1-1) designed to support a wide variety of programs in the life sciences by providing outstanding hard X-ray imaging and microtomography for pre-clinical and biomedical studies. The versatility of BMIT imaging stations also allows to study various problems of material science, energy, environment, cultural heritage, and others scientific areas. https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600577524005241

Responsibilities:
- Provides training and user support to beamlines users, to ensure that they are able to perform their scientific experiments in a safe and effective manner.
- Aligning beamline optical components and setting up the endstation for users experiments.
- Analyzing and solving routine technical problems and developing recommendations to solve difficult, complex, or unusual problems.
- Prepares beamline documentation in the form of written reports, guidelines, and log books, ensuring CLS standards and other relevant codes, standards, and practices are met.
- May provide expert technical review of beamtime proposals and input to the Peer Review Committee (PRC) concerning general user proposals.
- Working flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, is a requirement of the position.

Qualifications:
- A relevant Ph.D. with a minimum of 3 years of directly related experience in a synchrotron or other relevant laboratory is required.
- Experience in hard X-ray Imaging and tomography are required.
- Familiarity with Linux command line and programming skills in Python are required.
- Image processing skills are required.
- Hands-on experience on a similar beamline would be considered an asset.