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Senior Experimental Officer

Employer
University of Exeter
Location
Exeter, Devon
Salary
£43,267 up to £58,089 on Grade G, depending on qualifications and experience.
Closing date
Feb 25, 2019

Senior Experimental Officer

Job reference P64410

Date posted 18/01/2019

Application closing date 25/02/2019

Location Exeter

Salary

The starting salary will be from £43,267 up to £58,089 on Grade G, depending on qualifications and experience.

Package

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).

Technical Services

Technical Services are recruiting for a Senior Experimental Officer (SEO) to support Prof Julian Moger in establishing and maintaining a state-of-the-art non-linear optical spectroscopy facility. This role is intended to be a permanent post, subject to a review of the facility after the first two years, and is available immediately.   

About the post

 The EPSRC funded CONTRAST Facility (EP/S009957/1) is state-of-the-art user facility that aims to put non-linear optical spectroscopy techniques into the hands of the UK's leading Healthcare Technologies researchers. The UK has a rich and vibrant Raman spectroscopy community, which is at the forefront of developments showing that the technique holds the key to the next generation of enabling healthcare technologies. For many healthcare applications Raman scattering has the drawback of being too weak for real-time imaging. Coherent Raman scattering (CRS) exploits non-linear optics to enhance weak molecular vibrational signals and enables real-time imaging of tissues with chemical contrast on the cellular scale; a capability that holds the key to the next generation of diagnostic technologies and the development of targeted therapies.

About you

We are looking for a scientist with recognized authority on the development and application of Coherent Raman Scattering to work with leading clinical scientists and spectroscopists to pioneer novel healthcare applications. This senior role offers the exciting opportunity to establish the UK's first CRS user facility and to become a leading authority in its application across a broad range of Healthcare related areas. Initially the SEO will lead the procurement of the new apparatus, and then develop and integrate the apparatus to produce working experiments that may be operated by both internal and external (to the university) users. The SEO will develop and implement procedures to manage user access, and provide assistance to users with their experiments.

It is our vision that facility will become a focus for the development of UK healthcare technologies based on non-linear spectroscopy and the SEO will play a pivotal role in creating a strong community of academic and industrial users and in promoting facility usage. It is expected that the SEO will have the status of a full collaborator in many of the projects, and will also pursue research projects of their own that maintain their status as a leading authority on the development and application of the experimental techniques used. They will thereby publish research in internationally leading journals, such that their research output may be included in future Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessments.

To view the Job Description and Person Specification document please click here.

Before submitting an application you may wish to discuss the post further by contacting Professor Julian Moger (telephone: +441392 724181, email: J.Moger@exeter.ac.uk).

Technical Services at the University of Exeter is comprised of STEMM-facing research and teaching technical staff. Whilst all operating in a single service our staff work in a wide range of specialist areas such as, Engineering, Physics, Geology, Mining and Minerals, Renewable Energy, Life and Environmental Science, Sports and Health Science, Medical Sciences and Medical Imaging.

What we can offer you

Freedom (and the support) to pursue your intellectual interests and to work creatively across disciplines to produce internationally exciting research;

Support teams that understand the University wide research and teaching goals and partner with our academics accordingly

An Innovation, Impact and Business directorate that works closely with our academics providing specialist support for external engagement and development

Our Exeter Academic initiative supporting high performing academics to achieve their potential and develop their career

A multitude of staff benefits including sector leading benefits around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), Paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay), and a new Fertility Treatment Policy

A beautiful campus set in the heart of stunning Devon

Our women in HE work extends the principles of the Athena SWAN Charter and the Gender Equality Charter Mark to all roles in the University.  We are committed to bringing the best development experience to women, and men, at all stages of their careers as well as being passionate about promoting careers for women in science to encourage them to reach their full potential.

The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer and holds an institutional Athena SWAN Silver award. We are officially recognised as a Disability Confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.

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