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Job Summary

The successful candidate will work in the laboratories for stable isotope geochemistry and will be expected to develop appropriate analytical methods within the first 1-2 quarters of the first year of employment, use those methods to study a set of samples obtained from collaborators during the 2-3 quarter, and prepare results for presentation and publication during the 3rd-4th quarter.

Essential Job Duties

• Background scholarship regarding steroidal compounds and their isotopic properties.
• Training on Orbitrap mass spectrometers, particularly focused on isotope ratio analysis.
• Development of methods for Orbitrap isotopic analysis of steroidal compounds.
• Analysis of steroidal compounds from synthetic and human sources.
• Processing and organization of resulting data.
• Presentation of results in conference lectures and/or manuscripts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D. in organic isotope geochemistry.
• 1 year of prior postdoctoral research.
• Knowledge of organic chemistry, mass spectrometry, isotope chemistry.
• Operation of mass spectrometers; wet-lab chemistry for organic purification.

Preferred Qualifications

• None

Required Documents

• Resume