Research Scientist Ii/Senior (Open Rank)

Job Title:Research Scientist II/Senior (Open Rank)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 268594
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Overview

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Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

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Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the IEN/IMat Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Materials discovery is the foundation of many new technologies and is vital to economic growth as well as to the development of solutions to 21st century challenges in energy, mobility, infrastructure, computing, communications, security, and health. Founded in 2012 as one of Georgia Techs 10 interdisciplinary research institutes, the Institute for Materials at Georgia Tech seeks to enable and support Georgia Techs internationally recognized materials research and innovation ecosystem; establishing and supporting large-scale industry and government partnerships, developing opportunities for Georgia Tech researchers to catalyze new ideas, and establishing Georgia Tech as an internationally recognized hub for core materials research facilities, infrastructure and knowledge.

The IEN/IMat Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) is the main facility for materials analysis at Georgia Tech. The facility leadership and main core lab are located in the state-of-the-art Marcus Nanotechnology Building.

Available to academic, industry, and government users, The Materials Characterization Facility (MCF) is a coordinated set of complementary labs that enable internal GT and external researchers to analyze material properties at all scales from atomic-level ordering to collective behavior of molecules, compounds, & crystals to the macroscopic behavior of bulk solids and structures. The MCF is composed of several core labs - each specializing in one aspect of materials analysis that are distributed across multiple buildings on campus. Areas of emphasis include:

Electron Microscopy
Scanning Probe Microscopy
Optical Microscopy and Spectroscopy
X-Ray Diffraction & Spectroscopy
Surface Science
Mechanical Testing
Molecular Property Measurement

The MCF offers shared-user access to the latest in imaging and analysis technology, which can be accessed by users 24 hours a day. It also provides a full complement of services for researchers including:

Basic and advanced instrument training
Imaging and analysis consultations
Remote sample prep, measurement, and data analysis
Paper and proposal collaboration

Location

Atlanta, GA

Job Summary

The Institute for Materials (IMat) is seeking a Research Scientist to support Its Materials Characterization Facility ("MCF").

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Training users on multiple analysis instruments in the Materials Characterization Facility ("MCF")

• Helping with data analysis and provide guidance with advanced measurement modes

• Guiding characterization work for internal/ external users from academia, industry, and the government

• Supporting the Education and Outreach Efforts of the MCF and the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure ("NNCI")

Required Qualifications

This position vacancy is an Open Rank announcement. Final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook (https://www.policylibrary.gatech.edu/faculty-handbook/3.2.1-research-faculty-hiring-and-promotion=-guidelines)

Research Scientist II

A master's degree in science, engineering or related area, and three (3) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
A master's degree in science, engineering or related area, and five (5) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a bachelor's degree, or
A doctoral degree

Senior Research Scientist

A master's degree and seven (7) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of that degree, or
A master's degree and nine (9) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a bachelor's degree, or
A doctoral degree and four (4) years of relevant full-time experience after completion of a bachelor's degree

Required Documents to Attach

Please attach a list of 3 professional references

Contact Information

For additional information about this job opening, please contact Cecelia Jones at cecelia.jones@imat.gatech.edu.

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