Senior research engineer/researcher

Information about the division
The Chalmers Mass Spectrometry Infrastructure (CMSI) is a Chalmers infrastructure with the goal of providing cutting edge and efficient quantitative and qualitative mass spectrometry services for the Swedish research community. The services provided by CMSI range from more simple biomolecule determinations to large scale lipidomics and metabolomics studies where a large degree of the operative focus layes on. CMSI collaborates closely with research groups focusing in use and development of these techniques and, notably, with the Chalmers Computational systems Biology infrastructure (CSBI) with competence in bioinformatics and data science. Within the national infrastructure network, CMSI is part of and works together with personnel at the Biological Mass Spectrometry Infrastructure (BioMS) as well as at the SciLideLab Metabolomics and Exposomics platform.

-The details of the departmental research activities may be found here.  

Major responsibilities
As a Senior Research Engineer at CMSI you will be part of the CMSI team that works closely with the users of the infrastructure. Your primary responsibility will be to plan, lead and execute analytical projects together with the CMSI team. Assays will include both targeted quantitative and untargeted metabolomic and lipidomics projects. You will be involved in communication with users and collaborators, will participate in experimental design, sample preparation and analysis, when needed, and, notably, take leadership in data analysis and interpretation. You will contribute to the projects and to the team with your expert knowledge in mass spectrometry and metabolomics and actively engage in development of the existing and new methods. You will also work closely with the CSBI team and seek to improve existing workflows with the available competencies in both teams.

Contract terms
Full-time permanent employment.

Qualifications
In order to be eligble for the position you need a doctoral degree in a relevant field and meet the following requirements:
- Significant experience in working with chromatography and modern mass spectrometers including both HRMS and unit mass instruments.
- Significant experience in metabolomics analysis including the full project cycle from study design to data analysis and metabolite identification.
- Experience in working with analysis of mass spectometry data and development of tools in R or Python.
- Demostrated capability in independent scripting/programming
- A publication track record that supports the experience listed above.
- Experience in project management and working in scientific environments.
- Good interpersonal, networking and communication skills.
- Genuine interest in delivering excellent scientific services.
- Strong oral and written skills in English. 

We offer
Chalmers offers a cultivating and inspiring working environment in the coastal city of Gothenburg. 
Read more about working at Chalmers and our benefits for employees.

Chalmers aims to actively improve our gender balance. We work broadly with equality projects, for example the GENIE Initiative on gender equality for excellence. Equality and diversity are substantial foundations in all activities at Chalmers.

Application procedure
The application should be marked with Ref 20220055 and written in English. The application should be sent electronically and be attached as pdf-files, as below:

CV: (Please name the document as: CV, Family name, Ref. number) including:
• CV
• Complete list of publications (divided into peer reviewed/non peer reviewed journal articles,conference contributions, etc).
• Two references that we can contact.

Personal letter: (Please name the document as: Personal letter, Family name, Ref. number)
1-3 pages where you:
• Introduce yourself
• Describe your previous research fields and main research results
• Describe your future goals and future research focus

Other documents:
Publications:
• Copies of your most relevant publications in full format (maximum of ten publications). It is a good idea to attach the files as a PDF or compress them into a Zip file. − Copies of a maximum of ten other publications that substantiate your other qualifications (for example, educational publications and popular science articles).

Learn more and apply on Chalmers website:

Application deadline: 18th of March 2022. 

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