Postdoctoral Fellow​/Synthetic Chemist; Chemistry Zaleski Lab

Position Details

Postdoctoral Fellow/Synthetic Chemist;
Chemistry Zaleski Lab

Non-Tenure Track

IU Bloomington Chemistry

Bloomington

The Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University, consists of a well-rounded research community with cutting-edge expertise in a wide variety of modern disciplines including analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, materials chemistry, and biochemistry.

The Zaleski Lab in the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University is accepting applications for a postdoctoral researchposition. The position involves the design and synthesis of hybridmolecular and nanomaterial catalysts (see here for recent work:
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, 16, 255. The desiredstart date is February 1, 2027, although this is flexible in-order-to accommodate the needs of outstanding candidates. The successful applicant will use a deep understanding of syntheticinorganic and organic ligand chemistry, as well as moleculepreparation and purification to achieve research goals.

Nanomaterial and catalysis experience is a plus but not required.

Motivated applicants with a Ph.D. in any area of synthetic chemistry will be considered. A candidate with a strong background in solution-phase synthetic preparations and characterizations, aswell as familiarity manipulating air- and moisture-sensitivechemicals, is ideally suited for the project. We seek to employsomeone with demonstrable experience in chemical purification and characterization of starting materials and reaction products by standard techniques ( NMR, EPR, IR, Mass spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, TEM, and DFT calculations also desirable).

The Zaleski Lab is a dynamic multidisciplinary laboratory environment. The successful applicant will play an integral role within our growing team and will emerge with a skill set that is equally relevant to academia and industry. Trainees receive regular guidance and feedback to ensure progress is made toward their career goals, whatever those may be. Trainees are also afforded the scheduling flexibility needed to maintain an appropriate work-life balance and a safe laboratory environment.

• 1. Manage own academic research and administrative activities. Thisinvolves small scale project management and coordinating multipleaspects of work to meet deadlines.
• 2. Train graduate and undergraduate students in research methods
• 3. Adapt existing, and develop new, scientific techniques andexperimental protocols to achieve research objectives.
• 4. Use specialist scientific equipment in a laboratory environment.
• 5. Assist in maintaining a research laboratory (e.g. setting up Schlenk lines, ordering equipment etc.)
• 6. Contribute ideas for new research projects.
• 7. Undertake comprehensive and systematic literature reviews andwrite up the results for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
• 8. Collaborate in the preparation of scientific reports and journal articles and occasionally present papers and posters.