Research Assistant or Research Fellow

£24,049 - £27,047 or £27,854 - £36,298 pa

Fixed Term Contract for 15 Months

The Magnetic Resonance Group in the Physics Department invites applications for a post-doctoral research fellow to work on the EPSRC-funded project "ENDOR-DNP". In addition to dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), the group has a broad research program from high-field EPR to solid-state NMR.

Outstanding equipment is available for this research and you will develop and operate DNP spectrometers at both 14.1 and 3.4 T (600 MHz and 143 MHz for proton NMR). We already perform high-resolution NMR on both machines as well as simultaneous EPR at 397 GHz and 94 GHz respectively. We use magic angle spinning for solid-state samples in the 14.1 T spectrometer.

The project aims to demonstrate the usefulness of ENDOR-DNP for NMR signal enhancement using N@C60 polarizing agents. By driving allowed instead of forbidden transitions we aim to quickly reach large nuclear polarization enhancements without needing high-power excitation in both liquid and solid state samples. We have already obtained EPR spectra of N@C60 in both of our DNP setups, so the next steps will be to realise ENDOR and then ENDOR-DNP, before transferring the polarization to molecules-of-interest and optimizing the NMR signal enhancements.

You will possess, or be about to obtain, a PhD (or equivalent) in experimental magnetic resonance. Good communication skills and inter-personal skills are also essential. Experience with as many as possible of the relevant techniques (solid-state NMR, EPR, ENDOR and DNP) is desirable but not essential.

More information is available at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/dnp and informal enquiries can be made to Dr Gavin W Morley, gavin.morley@warwick.ac.uk.

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The closing date/time for applications is midnight (British time) at the end of Monday 03 June 2013.