Main functional duties of the Department:

• Creation and development of  Core Facilities;
• Development and implementation of the Nazarbayev University scientific infrastructure of development strategy.
• Conduction of analyses for University and external organizations by trained staff and training of potential users;
• Control and regulation of equipment use;

• Help and support research technologists with difficult cases and take up work with complicated and unusual cases;
• Conducts, organizes and supervises research users on the Electron microscopes;
• Organizes technical assistance for researchers, students and third party organizations;
• Analyzes laboratory’s demand for in Electron microscopic facility equipment, consumables, and reagents, based on consumption;
• Plans and executes a roadmap for the equipment maintenance, upgrade, and addition, as well as overall development of facility;
• Provides training and consultation for new users of the equipment;
• Participation in plans, organizes and performs corrective and preventive maintenance on facility equipment;
• Supervises diagnostics, provides and organizes repairing of the equipment hardware;
• Participates in collaboration with the University faculty and staff;
• Participation in emergency response in emergency situations involving the safety of people and equipment;
• Participation in preparation of technical documents, reports, and other documents related to the equipment use and maintenance.

Education

-     Master’s degree (or equivalent) in natural science (biology, chemistry, physics or related disciplines) or engineering

Desired professional experience 

• Experience of research work for at 1 year in the Electron microscopic laboratory;
• Certificates on TEM and SEM training and maintenance;
• Experience in organization of repair of laboratory equipment;
• Co-authorship of not less than 1 Scopus-indexed publications in the peer-reviewed journals containing results with TEM and SEM images and its descriptions.

Professional competence and personal qualities

• Knowledge of scientific challenges, features and abilities of transmission and scanning electron microscopy and directions of its development;
• Willingness and ability to learn new information and updates related to the equipment functioning;
• Ability to understand and interpret results of microscopic imaging and analyzes in most typical cases;
• Knowledge of the basic principles of adjustment and alignment of transmission and scanning electron microscopes;
• Knowledge of the basics of sample preparation and requirements for different samples (disperse nano-objects, biological objects, thin films, solid materials) for TEM and SEM, the effect of electron beam-objects interactions;
• Be familiar with the consumables for microscopy and equipment procurement procedures;
• Ability to work independently and as team member;

Proficiency in languages

• Proficiency in English (with good understanding of technical literature) and mandatory - knowledge of electron microscopy terminology.

Computer skills

• High degree of computer literacy including its maintenance and repairing