Director, Mass Spectrometry Facility

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Director, Mass Spectrometry Facility

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Director B, Research

Job Description Summary

The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a scientist with expertise in mass spectrometry to fill a full-time position as the director of the fee-for-service Mass Spectrometry (MS) Facility for the Department of Chemistry. The candidate will provide mass spectroscopy services to Penn and outside users. Duties include operation and maintenance of mass spectrometers, training and assisting users, and providing low and high-resolution mass spectra to Penn and outside users for the determination of elemental composition and purity of a wide variety of compounds. Candidate will also work collaboratively with Biological Resource Service Center (BCRC) personnel to oversee technology development of the BCRC.

Job Description

Penn Chemistry is a department of ideas and scholars, where the community of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, students, and research staff collaborate in exploring new frontiers in the chemical and molecular sciences.

Penn Chemistry is a leading center of molecular research. Within the department, the traditional sub-fields of biological, organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry serve as a framework from which collaborative, inter-disciplinary experimental and theoretical research is launched.

Penn Chemistry prides itself on its educational mission. A breadth of undergraduate and graduate courses involving the chemical sciences are available in the department. Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers develop skills in laboratory practice, the analysis of findings, and in building models and understanding, while performing research in the leading frontiers of molecular science.

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The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a scientist with expertise in mass spectrometry to fill a full-time position as the director of the Mass Spectrometry Facility for the Department of Chemistry. The can