Crystallographer and Instructor

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Primary Category Page: Staff and Management

Division: College of Computational Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Requisition ID: 3080

Department: Chemistry

This position is represented by the agreement between the Professional Staff Association and the University of Guelph

Temporary full-time from 12/07/2026to08/31/2028
Temporary Absence of the Regular Incumbent

General Purpose

The Department of Chemistry is a central academic unit withing the College of Computational, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences that features dynamic and growing teaching and research programs. We work with ~6,--- undergraduate and graduate students each year and provide a wide range of services to support these activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

Working closely with an Assistant Professor in Chemistry, the incumbent will provide technical expertise in support of the department's crysallographic "X-lab" facility, in the form of research experiment design, HQP training, structural data collection and refinement, preparation of publishable, crystallographic information files (CIFs) and related co-authorship on research publications, instrument, maintenance, and usage management; encourage and support widespread usage of the "X-lab" infrastructure beyond the Department of Chemistry; provide expertise and writing skills to support grant applications for future replacement of "X-lab" infrastructure as needed. In a similar nature, the incumbent will also maintain the elemental and analysis instrument, a departmental facility. The incumbent will also report to the Chair to teach and/or develop existing and new undergraduate and graduate courses within the Department of Chemistry.

Requirements

• PhD in Chemistry plus two (2) years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience as a small-molecule crystallographer for since crystal (SCXRD) and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) experiments, including a track record (minimum 10 CIFs as lead crystallographer) of published, peer-reviewed crystallographic data; experience solving structures exhibiting disorder and twinning would be an asset.
• Experience handling air-sensitive samples for SCXRD and PXRD.
• Experience designing and performing crystallographic data collection experiments under high-pressure.
• Experience using Rievtveld refinement methods for PXRD.
• Experience using ab initio methods to solve structures for small molecules using PXRD.

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