Head of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Berlin
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Application deadline: 02 Aug 2019
Based on a successful application for large infrastructure, Charité is establishing a cryo-EM facility on its Campus in Berlin-Buch, with a particular focus on cryo-electron tomography applications. A position is available to head this facility at the earliest convenience.
The position offers:
- A three-year fixed-term position according to German public pay grade E14 to establish the facility, with the possibility to convert it into a permanent position afterwards. Starting date from September 1, 2019.
- An international scientific environment with exciting projects and partners.
- A dedicated cryo-EM building with state-of-the-art instrumentation including a Titan Krios with a Gatan K3 Direct Electron Detector and energy filter, an Aquilos Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB-SEM) and a Cryo Correlative Light Electron Microscope (CLEM).
Your tasks:
- Establishing of a cryo-EM facility in tight cooperation with the involved institutions and companies.
- Technical supervision of high-end cryo-electron microscopes and equipment.
- Development and application of new cryo-EM methods related to sample preparation, data acquisition, data processing, generation of samples for FIB-SEM, application of CLEM methods.
- Project coordination, including third-party funding acquisition. Preparation of applications and publications.
- User acquisition and consultation, maintenance of national and international co-operations.
- Budget and staff responsibility for the core facility.
- Education of staff and users.
- Establishing a web page and booking system for the core facility.
- Preparation of legal documents related to the operation of the facility.
Your profile:
- Scientific university degree, including PhD.
- Several years of working experience in the field of cryo-electron microscopy and structural biology.
- Experience in the preparation of cryo-EM samples and in the operation of cryo-electron microscopes, in data collection and processing of cryo-EM data and model building.
- Experience in the acquisition and processing of cryo-electron tomography data and application of CLEM approaches would be highly desired.
- Experience in Linux-based server systems and scripting.
- Very good communication skills in English.
- Coordination and organization skills, ability to work independently, team player.
Please send applications to Claudia Flügel (claudia.fluegel@charite.de).
For questions and more information, please contact Oliver Daumke (oliver.daumke@mdc-berlin.de).
