Team Leader – Life Science Cryo-Electron Microscopy; Cryo-EM Facility

Organisation/Company Forschungszentrum Jülich Research Field All Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Established Researcher (R3) Final date to receive applications 19 Jan 2038 - 03:14 (UTC) Country Germany Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Other Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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ER-C-3 - Strukturbiologie

Area of research:

Scientific / postdoctoral posts

Your Job:

The Jülich campus hosts a vibrant electron microscopy, biophysics and structural biology community.

We are seeking to recruit a team leader to head the new life science electron microscopy facility, to be established at the Ernst Ruska-Centre. The activities of the facility support cutting‑edge methodological as well as topical cryo‑EM research for internal and external users. The position will oversee microscope user operation, training and outreach activities of the facility together with technical and specialist support staff.

The centre has a focus on microscopy method development as well as focused topical biological and physical research. Forschungszentrum Jülich has recently become part of the German Instruct‑ERIC Center offering external cryo‑EM user access at the European level.

Your tasks in detail:

• Organize and oversee an accessible and developing infrastructure for internal and external cryo-EM users.
• Coordinate use, maintenance and performance of microscope equipment in the facility (Talos
  120, Arctica, 2 x Krios, Aquilos, Arctis).
• Integrate novel future hardware technologies, e.g., double Cs/Cc imaging cor rectors, Helium temperature and STEM, into sustainable internal and external user operation.
• Engaging with researchers and vendors to explore emerging techniques and prototype developments in the field in close coordination with ER-C directors.
• Training, supervising and mentoring cryo-EM specialists and technicians in single-particle cryo-EM and cryo-electron tomography application and execution.
• Carrying out independent research on implementing emerging and innovative electron microscopy methodologies (30 %).
• Offer services to clients from industry in addition to academic users.
• Providing a visible hub for cryo-EM at the ER-C - creating and running workshops to disseminate to the scientific community cryo-EM aspects of theory, sample preparation, data acquisition, analysis and preparation for publication.

Your Profile:

• Master degree in biology, chemistry, physics or related field, ideally with subsequent PhD degree in a relevant area
• A track record of scientific and/or technological achievements in electron microscopy
• Several years of experience of microscope operation in a structural biology or materials science EM facility
• Experience with maintaining and purchasing microscopy hardware
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with internal colleagues and external visitors in an international and interdisciplinary team
• Strong willingness to grow into a leadership role or already existing experience in leading a team

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Offer:

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We offer you:

• The chance to work at one of the largest research centers in Germany, with excellent scientific equipment and leading European computational resources, located on a green campus, and near the cultural centers Köln, Düsseldorf, and Aachen. The Jülich campus also hosts a vibrant biophysics, bioinformatics and structural biology community.
• The activities are embedded in a long-term supported scientific infrastructure within outstanding electron microscopy environment together with the Biological and Physical sciences.
• Direct access to high-level cryo-EM infrastructure at the Ernst-Ruska Centre
  2.0 including a new building. The facility has been extended with state-of-the-art cryo-microscopes and FIB-SEMs of Thermo Fisher, 2x Titan Krios, Talos Arctica and FIB-SEMs Aquilos 2, Arctis.
• As part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures of the ERC 2.0, access to worldwide unique electron microscope…