Congrats to @alty_adam on his latest work in J. Magn. Reson: "Reducing the Effects of Weak Homonuclear Dipolar Coupling with CPMG Pulse Sequences for Static and Spinning Solids." https://t.co/umrLrujhi0

— SchurkoFSU (@SchurkoFSU) March 9, 2022

Employment opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate - National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Florida State University: Platinum Group Elements

We are searching for a postdoctoral research associate to lead efforts on a DOE-sponsored project, “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Platinum Group Elements (DE-SC0022310)”, which is to be conducted at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) and Florida State University (FSU) in Tallahassee, FL. This project focuses upon the exploration of structure and bonding in complexes involving the platinum group elements (PGEs), in an effort to ultimately find alternatives to PGEs (due to their relative scarcity and great expense) for use in a variety of applications in chemistry and materials science. Up to three years of funding is available for this position. This work is being done in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Jochen Austchbach (U. Buffalo).

Potential candidates must have extensive experience in solid-state NMR spectroscopy and/or quantum computational chemistry as related to NMR interactions. The successful candidate will perform solid-state NMR experiments on a series of compounds involving NMR-active isotopes from the platinum group elements, including 195Pt, 103Rh, 99Ru, and 105Pd, as well as numerous other multinuclear SSNMR experiments on other nuclides in PGE-bound ligands. The candidate will also conduct first-principles computations of chemical shift tensors and electric field gradient tensors, in order to explore relationships between structure, bonding, and NMR interaction tensors.

The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is a world-leading facility focusing on the use of high magnetic fields for research in physics, chemistry, and biology. The NMR division is Tallahassee is equipped with the highest magnetic field NMR spectrometer in the world, the Series Connected Hybrid, which operates at 35.2 T (1.5 GHz), along with an ultra-wide bore 900 MHz NMR/MRI spectrometer, a 600 MHz DNP NMR spectrometer, one 830 MHz and two 800 MHz spectrometers, several mid-field instruments, and a collection of custom, home-built probes that have an assortment of capabilities and are tuneable to a wide range of frequencies. Florida State University is one of the elite research universities in the United States, and designated as a preeminent university in the State of Florida.

Interested candidates should contact Prof. Robert Schurko at rschurko@fsu.edu, and provide a full CV with a list of publications.