Research Associate, Academic

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Our primary mission is providing instruction of the highest quality in physics and astronomy to undergraduate and graduate students at UNC
-CH. Training in physics is fundamental among the natural sciences because it provides understanding of the forces governing the structure of matter, from subatomic particles to the large-scale structure of the universe. Our departmental instructional mission spans all segments of the student community. Over 60% of all college graduates from UNC
-CH have taken a course in our department. Among them: undergraduate liberal arts majors who should master the power of quantitative reasoning; undergraduates seeking a degree in another of the natural sciences, who need physics as a foundation for their advanced scientific training; the small number of undergraduates who major in physics, to whom we provide broad and rigorous training. Our graduate education and research advances frontiers of knowledge at the two extremes of space and time, from the very small) the realm of particle physics) to the very large (the realm of astronomy, while expanding the boundaries of knowledge in the many subfields spanning length scales between.

Forefront physics and astronomy research requires access to well-equipped laboratories and extensive computing capabilities; it also must be supported by comprehensive and accessible library collections. Again, in research at this advanced level, the bridging aspect of physics provides basic interdisciplinary insight for many other sciences. This instructional mission is supported by a strong managerial, administrative, and technical staff. Duties of these employees range from budget planning and management for the numerous research grants held by faculty in the department to maintaining course and student records.

These activities are usually accomplished in a standard 40- hour week schedule

The individual will set up a vacuum system so that well-controlled partial vapor pressures of various adsorbates can be delivered to porous adsorbates and delivered in-situ to a nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) system. Adsorbates of interests will be functionalized by self-assembled monolayer coating. NMR experiments will be conducted in-situ to determine isotherms and molecular dynamics information. These experiments should lead to manuscripts for publications in scientific journals.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

• Familiar with conducting high vacuum in-situ nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, signal processing or data analysis, and spin dynamics simulations.
• Familiarity with sample preparations such as functionalization of nanoporous materials via self-assembled monolayer coating.

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