Detector Scientist - Spectroscopy

at  Diamond Light Source

ABOUT US

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. By accelerating electrons to near light-speed, Diamond generates brilliant beams of light from infra-red to X-rays which are used for academic and industry research and development across a range of scientific disciplines including structural biology, physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, earth and environmental sciences.
At Diamond we are currently undertaking a major upgrade of the facility, known as Diamond-II. Diamond-II will combine a new machine and new beamlines with a comprehensive series of upgrades to optics, detectors, sample environments, sample delivery capabilities and computing, which will ultimately generate an even more brilliant light source at a higher energy.

The Diamond Detector Group are responsible the construction, installation, commissioning, and operation of the detector systems of the beamlines of Diamond. In order to provide the best detectors, the group is committed to a number of detector evaluation and development projects, and it is engaged in international collaborations.
The availability of a test beamline at Diamond allows the detector group to evaluate the performance of innovating detector technologies and their application to synchrotron X-ray experiments. Close cooperation with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory enables access to other world-class facilities as well as the interaction with world-leading detector developers.
We now have an opportunity for a detector scientist to work in the evaluation and development of Spectroscopic X-ray detectors. You will join a highly dynamic group working at the cutting edge of detector technology, contributing to shaping the detector landscape for the new beamlines planned at Diamond-II.

Further responsibilities will include:

• Specification and design of the detector systems to be installed in beam lines.
• Developing and applying expertise in technologies such as sensors, detector read-out, detector ancillary electronics for new detector design.
• Working closely with internal & external scientific and engineering staff to produce documentation for the support of the detector systems installed in the beam lines, to produce the calibration and maintenance programs, to carry out the quality control tests.
• Fault finding of detector systems installed in the beam lines.
• Assisting in installation and commissioning of detector systems.
• Using software packages such as MatLab and Origin for data analysis to understand the performance of detectors.