Post-doctoral position in programming at MAX-lab

Closing Date: 18th June 2004
Commencing Date: As soon as possible after closing date.

MAX-lab is commissioning a new beamline for macromolecular crystallography, called Cassiopeia. The beamline will have five stations: four monochromatic stations at different fixed wavelengths and a tunable station for multiple wavelength and optimized single wavelength experiments. We are looking for a postdoc to participate in an EU project whose overall goal is to improve the user interface for macromolecular protein X-ray crystallography (MX) in Europe. Our main contribution to this network will be to help design and implement an integrated beam-time application procedure for all European synchrotrons with MX facilities, leading possibly to an Europe-wide clearing house for PX applications in the medium-term future. The work will be done in collaboration with the group of Prof. Roberto Pugliese from the Elettra synchrotron in Trieste, Italy. The postdoc will, however, contribute to a number of other ongoing projects involving beamline automation and integration and will have input into other aspects of the network, such as automated sample transport, development of common data backup devices etc.

The candidate should have previous experience of scientific programming and should preferably have previous experience of Web services. The candidate should also be interested in databases, beamline software and hardware.

Contact

Informal enquiries can be made by E-mail (derek.logan@mbfys.lu.se) or telephone (+46 46 222 1443).

Application

Applications should be addressed to:  

Dr. Derek Logan
Dept. of Molecular Biophysics
Lund University
Box 124
S-221 00 Lund
Sweden

CASSIOPEIA is a Swedish-Danish structural biology project involving the construction of a beamline at the Swedish synchrotron radiation laboratory MAX-lab at Lund University. The purpose of the project is to extend the capacity for macromolecular structure determination at MAX-lab to meet the demands from both academia and industry.

MAX-lab is a Swedish national laboratory which supports three distinct research areas: Accelerator physics, research based on the use of synchrotron radiation and nuclear physics using energetic electrons.