Research Associate in NMR Spectroscopy

Job reference: SAE-027287

Salary: £36,924 to £45,163 per annum (according to relevant experience)

Faculty/Organisational Unit: Science and Engineering

Location: Oxford Road

Employment type: Fixed Term

Division/Team: Department of Chemistry

Hours Per Week: 1 FTE

Closing date (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/12/2024

Contract Duration: Fixed term from 1 March 2025 until February 2028

School/Directorate: School of Natural Sciences

Applications are invited for a 3-year postdoctoral research associateship in the development and application of novel high resolution NMR techniques, funded by the EPSRC grant “Flow-tolerant NMR experiments”. The research will be carried out in the NMR methodology research group of Professor Mathias Nilsson, Professor Gareth Morris, and Dr Ralph Adams. This project offers an excellent opportunity for a suitable candidate to build a wide NMR skill set and to contribute intellectually to other projects within the research group.

The aim of the project is to develop new and improved NMR methods that are tolerant of flow. Flowing a sample through an NMR spectrometer allows real-time analysis, with minimal perturbation, in e.g. reaction monitoring and chromatography. This is an area of steadily growing importance, and is becoming more widely available with the introduction of less expensive, and more portable, low-field NMR instruments. Sample motion, whether deliberate, as in measurements on flowing samples, or inadvertent, as in sample convection, can be very detrimental to the sensitivity and quality of NMR data, limiting the use of modern pulsed field gradient methods. The new family of flow-tolerant NMR experiments to be developed will enable spectrometers to operate at their maximum and intended sensitivity, and the full range of modern NMR methods to become accessible in real-time reaction monitoring.  

The project will involve experimental work using a range of both high and low field spectrometers, with most high field work carried out on Bruker NEO 500, Bruker NEO 700, Bruker AV III 500, Varian/Agilent VNMRS 500, and Bruker AV III 400 spectrometers; pulse sequence programming; computer programming, mostly in C and Matlab, for data processing; and theoretical analysis, supported by simulation using packages such as Matlab and Mathematica.

You must have, or expect shortly to obtain, a PhD or equivalent in NMR spectroscopy or other relevant subject. You will join a lively international group of about twenty researchers; excellent team-working and interpersonal skills are required. You will share responsibility for the practical organisation of equipment and resources within the laboratory, will be expected to contribute intellectually to other projects within the research group and to bi-weekly group meetings, and to present work at national and international conferences.

Your application must include a cover letter setting out in detail why you believe that your qualifications, skills and experience make you suitable for this post. The cover letter should be added to the end of your CV, and the combined document uploaded as a single file which must be under 1 MB and uploaded to the CV tab.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Professor Mathias Nilsson

Email: mathias.nilsson@manchester.ac.uk

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

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