About your role:
* Disciplinary group leader of beamline teams, laboratories and sample environment
* Full responsibility for budget and staff
* Responsible for the user operation of PETRA, in cooperation with the other PETRA III group leaders, the user office, the accelerator division and the group ITT for innovation and technology transfer
* Key role and responsibility in designing and implementing the beamline and support team portfolio within the PETRA IV project
* Development and implementation of innovative concepts and methods for PETRA user operation
* Continue existing and develop new cooperation with large scale scientific consortia
* Active participation in national and international cooperations, e.g. LEAPS
* Representing and promoting the scientific program of PETRA III
* Active work in internal and external committees
Good reasons to join:
Look forward to a unique working environment on our international research campus. Respectful cooperation and the well-being of our DESY employees are particularly important to us. Gender equality is an important aspect for us. To support work life balance we offer flexible working hours and variable part-time. You will benefit from our family-friendly and collegial atmosphere, our established health management and occupational pension provision. As a public funded employer, we offer you a secure workplace and facilitate your individual career with our comprehensive training and development opportunities. Remuneration is according to the regulations of the TV-AVH. DESY offers its employees a financial supplement for a German job ticket (Deutschland-Ticket) at both locations.
Unlimited with a tenure track option for candidates in earlier career stages
About you:
* PhD and master's degree in physics, chemistry, materials science, biology or similar fields
* Excellent knowledge in application of synchrotron radiation in terms of diffraction, scattering and/or related imaging techniques (such as diffraction imaging, Bragg-CDI, tensor tomograpahy) and the development of methods and instrumentation
* Experience in supporting scientific user groups and customers from industry
* Experience working as a team or group leader, as well as experience working in a large team
* Record of scientific projects and publication
* Participation in international cooperations
* Excellent knowledge in methods and instrumentation development for synchrotron radiation
* Excellent oral and written English skills
* German skills are beneficial
We look forward to receiving your application via our application portal:
DESY promotes equal opportunities and diversity. The professional development of women is very important to us and therefore we strongly encourage women to apply for the vacant position. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are equally qualified .
You can find further information here:
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
Personalabteilung
Notkestraße
Hamburg
Phone: + 8-2
Deadline for applications: ..6