Postdoc (f/m/d) Advanced focused ion beam applications

With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are committed to mastering the great challenges facing society today.

The Institute for Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research is dedicated to the study of materials and their nanostructures that can be considered for future applications in information technology and are based on electrical, magnetic or optical functionalities.

The Group Ion Induced Nanostructures is looking for a

Postdoc (f/m/d) Advanced focused ion beam applications. 

Your tasks

• Implementation of IBC user experiments and scientific collaboration with IBC and RIANA users
• Develop and strengthen your own FIB centric research profile
• Interaction with RIANA ion beam users during the preparation, implementation and interpretation of their experiments (within the RIANA project)
• Presentation and publication of results at meetings, conferences and scientific papers
• Outreach and user acquisition for FIB based materials modification and analysis

Your profile

• Completed university studies (PhD) in the field of solid state physics, materials science or comparable natural sciences
• An excellent PhD degree in Physics, Materials science or a related field
• Hands-on experience in the operation of FIB instruments
• Good knowledge of the underlying ion beam physics
• The ability to lead the development of new experimental techniques based on FIBs
• Very good teamwork skills with ability to collaborate with experimentalists and theorists
• Very good English language skills (spoken and written)

Our offer

• A vibrant research community in an open, diverse and international work environment
• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• Salary and social benefits in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD-Bund) including 30 days of paid holiday leave, company pension scheme (VBL)
• We support a good work-life balance with the possibility of part-time employment, mobile working and flexible working hours
• Numerous company health management offerings
• Employee discounts with well-known providers via the platform Corporate Benefits
• An employer subsidy for the "Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket"

We look forward to receiving your application documents (including cover letter, CV, diplomas/transcripts, etc.), which you can submit via our online-application-system.