Postdoctoral Appointee - X-Ray Free Electron Laser
- Employer
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
- Location
- Lemont, Illinois (Suburb of Chicago)
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- Dec 31, 2019
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- Discipline
- Physical Sciences, Physics
- Position Type
- Full Time
- Job Type
- Postdoc
- Organization Type
- Govt.
Basic Purpose
The X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) is offering a Postdoctoral position to conduct research on X-ray cavities for cavity-based X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), future fully coherent hard x-ray sources of extreme spectral brightness. The work of the successful candidate will be focused on development, characterization and tests of X-ray-cavity optical components, X-ray-cavity detectors and monitors, cavity alignment procedures, appropriate software tools and eventually on cavity tests. The R&D will be performed in a framework of a joint ANL-SLAC (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) project.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Considerable: The successful candidate should have a Ph.D. in physics with solid knowledge in the following areas: optics (X-ray optics including), photon detectors, X-ray techniques. Considerable skills in experimental physics and experience of working with complex optical systems are required to develop, test, and characterize novel x-ray optics, and detectors. Competence in using complex software and ability to develop new software tools is essential.
Good: Successful candidate should have an experience of working at synchrotron radiation or XFEL facilities. Should be able to understand abstract physical concepts and the ability to synthesize experimental results into a proper theoretical framework. Good written and oral communication skills for writing scientific papers and presenting research results at scientific meetings are important.
Other: Knowledge of Linux operating system, LaTeX document preparation system, GLE or other advanced graphical tools, Python or other programming languages is desired.
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