Internal – Research Associate in Nano-vibrational Surface Spectroscopy

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Inner Candidates solely – This publish is presently open to workers of Cardiff College solely.  Please don’t apply in case you would not have a present contract of employment with the College.

Analysis Affiliate in Nano-Vibrational Floor Chemistry
Cardiff Faculty of Chemistry
Cardiff College

We search to recruit an enthusiastic, extremely motivated scientist with confirmed mental and technical talents to be a part of the crew working PiFM, the brand new Nanovibrational Floor Spectroscopy system within the Translational Analysis Hub.

Candidates should maintain a PhD in a related space with direct expertise of utilizing and decoding PiFM and XPS.

For casual enquiries concerning the position and the PiFM, please contact Prof. Phil Davies, ([email protected] ; Tel. +44 (0)29 2087 4072 ).

For additional particulars about working at Cardiff College, please contact Ms Sian Moseley ([email protected] )

This place is full time (35 hours per week) and is on the market from 1 April 2024 till 16 November 24.

To work for an employer that values and promotes equality of alternative, please go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/jobs and seek for emptiness quantity: 18425BR.

Wage: £39,347 – £44,263 every year (Grade 6). It’s not anticipated that an appointment be made above £39,347 (Grade 6.32).

Essential notice: It’s the College’s coverage to make use of the particular person specification as a key instrument for short-listing. Candidates ought to proof that they meet ALL of the important standards in addition to, the place related, the fascinating. As a part of the applying course of you’ll be requested to supply this proof through a supporting assertion.  Please be sure that the proof you might be offering corresponds with the numbered standards outlined under. Your software shall be thought-about based mostly on the knowledge you present underneath every ingredient.

When attaching the supporting assertion to your software profile, please be sure that you title it with the emptiness reference quantity, e.g. Supporting Assertion for 18425BR.

Time limit: Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Exterior purposes are presently not being thought-about for this publish.  If the choice is made to open the publish to exterior candidates, the strapline on the prime shall be eliminated and you’ll be given ample time to use – please examine again periodically for particulars.

Please bear in mind that Cardiff College reserves the appropriate to shut this emptiness early ought to adequate purposes be obtained.

Cardiff College is dedicated to supporting and selling equality and variety and to creating an inclusive working surroundings. We consider this may be achieved by attracting, growing, and retaining a various vary of employees from many various backgrounds who’ve the ambition to create a College which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and financial obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.  In supporting our workers to attain a stability between their work and their private lives, we may even take into account proposals for versatile working or job share preparations.
Functions could also be submitted in Welsh, and an software submitted in Welsh won’t be handled much less favourably than an software submitted in English.

Cardiff College is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration on Analysis Evaluation (DORA), which implies that in hiring and promotion selections we are going to consider candidates on the standard of their analysis, not publication metrics or the identification of the journal by which the analysis is printed. Extra data is on the market at:  Accountable analysis evaluation – Analysis – Cardiff College .

Job Description

Principal Perform
To handle the picture induced pressure microscope and supply a nano-vibrational spectroscopy service to customers. To conduct analysis within the synthesis and floor evaluation of nanoparticles by nano-vibrational spectroscopy and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the Faculty and College, finishing up analysis resulting in the publishing of labor in high-quality analysis. To pursue excellence in analysis and to encourage others to do the identical.

Principal Duties and Tasks 
Analysis

• To conduct analysis inside area of floor chemistry and contribute to the general analysis efficiency of the Faculty and College by the manufacturing of measurable outputs together with bidding for funding, publishing in nationwide educational journals and conferences, and the recruitment and supervision of postgraduate analysis college students;
• To develop analysis aims and proposals for personal or joint analysis together with analysis funding proposals;
• To attend and or current at conferences/seminars at a neighborhood and nationwide degree as required;
• To undertake administrative duties related to the analysis undertaking, together with the planning and organisation of the undertaking and the implementation of procedures required to make sure correct and well timed reporting;
• To organize analysis ethics and analysis governance purposes as applicable;
• To overview and synthesise current analysis literature throughout the area;
• To take part in Faculty analysis actions;
• To construct and create networks each internally and externally to the college, to affect selections, discover future analysis necessities, and share analysis concepts for the advantage of analysis tasks.

Different

• To interact successfully with industrial, business and public sector organisations, skilled establishments, different educational establishments and so forth., regionally and nationally to boost consciousness of the Faculty’s profile, to domesticate strategically precious alliances, and to pursue alternatives for collaboration throughout a spread of actions. These actions are anticipated to contribute to the Faculty and the enhancement of its regional and nationwide profile;
• To endure private {and professional} improvement that’s applicable to and which can improve efficiency;
• To take part in Faculty administration and actions to advertise the Faculty and its work to the broader College and the surface world;
• To make sure that an understanding of the significance of confidentiality is utilized when enterprise all duties;
• To abide by the College insurance policies on Well being and Security and Equality, Range & Inclusivity;
• Some other duties not included above, however according to the position.

Individual Specification

Important Standards

{Qualifications} and Schooling

Postgraduate diploma at PhD degree (or nearing completion / submission) in floor chemistry, or related industrial expertise

Information, Expertise and Expertise

A longtime experience and confirmed portfolio of analysis or related industrial expertise throughout the following analysis fields:

Superior spectroscopy together with Nano-vibrational spectroscopy

Sensible expertise of PiFM

Information of present standing of analysis in floor chemistry and Nano-vibrational spectroscopy

Confirmed capability to publish in nationwide/worldwide journals, nationwide conferences or different analysis outputs

Information and understanding of aggressive analysis funding to have the ability to develop purposes to funding our bodies

Communication and Group Working

Confirmed capability in efficient and persuasive communication

Potential to oversee the work of others to focus crew efforts and encourage people

Different

Confirmed capability to display creativity, innovation and team-working inside work

Confirmed capability to work with out shut supervision

Fascinating Standards 

Proof of collaborations with trade.

Confirmed capability to adapt to the altering necessities of the Larger Schooling group

Proof of capability to take part in, develop each inside and exterior networks, and utilise them to boost the analysis actions of the Faculty.

Fluency in Welsh, written and oral.

Extra Data

The undertaking will research the applying of Photograph induced Drive Microscopy (PiFM) to understanding supplies and mechanisms within the floor chemistry of a really big selection of processes. Analysis will deal with the event of the PiFM approach as a quantitative in addition to qualitative probe of catalytic and/or organic programs. The candidate will work in collaboration with scientist from a really big selection of backgrounds.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO CANDIDATES: It’s the College’s coverage to make use of the particular person specification as a key instrument for short-listing and we solely invite candidates to interview who clearly proof that they meet (or partially meet) every of the important standards. In the course of the software course of you’ll be requested to connect a supporting assertion. This assertion should define the way you meet the standards under and we really useful formatting this through the use of every standards as a sub-heading and offering your related expertise/proof under every sub-heading. It’s essential that you just save your supporting assertion with the emptiness quantity (18425BR) within the filename as failure to take action could lead to it being omitted out of your software.

Job Class

Tutorial – Analysis