Postdoctoral fellow (f/m) in time-resolved X-ray science on the beamline ID09

You will participate in ongoing in-house research programmes, the operation of the beamline, provide support to external users as local contact, and develop your own research programme.

ID09 is a beamline dedicated to time-resolved X-ray studies in physics, chemistry and biology using state of the art instrumentation. The goal is to monitor the structural changes taking place at the atomic/molecular level in different kind of systems (solid-state materials, transition metal complexes, biomolecules in solution, etc.) after laser photoexcitation with either X-ray diffraction/scattering or emission spectroscopy.

Current research topics include ultrafast dynamics of solid-state materials, the exploration of the phase diagram of different materials through dynamic pulse compression and the investigation of chemical reactions or protein intramolecular motion in solution.

The in-house research is performed in strong collaboration with international research groups leader in the field of ultrafast structural dynamics of matter.

Further information about the job can be obtained from Matteo Levantino (matteo.levantino@esrf.fr).

Recent publications:

• Amano et al., Propagation of insulator-to-metal transition driven by photoinduced strain waves in a Mott material, Nat. Phys. (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02628-4
• Prabudiansyah et al., Dephosphorylation and ion binding in prokaryotic calcium transport, Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp2916
• Pepin et al., Metastable water at several compression rates and its freezing kinetics into ice VII, Nat. Comm. (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52576-z
• Sollier et al., Development of a laser-driven shock compression platform for time-resolved XRD experiments at the ID09 beamline of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, High Pressure Research (2024). DOI: 10.1080/08957959.2024.2360020
• Plech et al.,Physical regimes and mechanisms of picosecond laser fragmentation of gold nanoparticles in water from x-ray probing and atomistic simulations, ACS Nano (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c12314