Scienteens lab team member for Physics / Sustainability (R&D specialist)

at  Universit du Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) is an interdisciplinary research centre of the University of Luxembourg.
We conduct fundamental and translational research in the field of Systems Biology and Biomedicine – in the lab, in the clinic and in silico. We focus on neurodegenerative processes and are especially interested in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and their contributing factors. The LCSB recruits talented scientists from various disciplines: computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists, chemists, engineers, physicists and clinicians from more than 50 countries currently work at the LCSB. We excel because we are truly interdisciplinary, and together we contribute to science and society.
The Scienteens Lab – De Labo fir Jonker – is the first research lab for high-school students in Luxembourg. It is an extracurricular learning center of the University of Luxembourg that develops and offers workshops designed to spark the interest of high-school students in science, show them the latest trends and technologies in research and supports them in their career choice. Hands-on experiments, supervised by experienced scientists and teachers from various disciplines, provide the students with an insight into scientific research and the day-to-day work in the lab. The workshops currently address relevant topics in biology, mathematics, computer science and physics. Please find here the link to our Facebook page and physics video.
The University of Luxembourg is seeking to make an appointment within the Scienteens Lab as soon as possible for the following position: Scienteens lab team member for Physics/ Sustainability

The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in developing new teaching concepts, publishing in respective journals as well as teaching and organizing scientific outreach activities for physics and sustainability at the University of Luxembourg for high school students.

What you can expect from the position:

• Exciting position which will allow you to integrate own ideas and visions
• Continuous trainings for you to improve your hard and soft skills and topics of interest
• Working together with colleagues of many different nationalities in a truly multilingual environment
• Developing new didactic concepts/material to teach physics and sustainability
• Adapt already existing didactic concepts to the landscape of Luxembourg
• Evaluating existing workshops
• Interpreting and analyzing the results
• Improve the current activities based on own results and current scientific knowledge
• Publishing:
• Developing activities and evaluation forms based on the scientific question
• Interpreting and analyzing the results
• Publishing in respective journals
• National and international collaboration with partners and stakeholders
• Writing applications and project reports for funding agency
• Coordinating and teaching hands-on workshops for high schools