Dear Spinlanders,
Posting this per request of a colleague.
Cheers,
Roberto Gil
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September 7, 2011
Dear Colleague:
Georgia State University is seeking to fill a key staff position, Director
of NMR Facilities, over the next several months. A detailed description
of the position and its setting in Atlanta, Georgia, are given on the
following pages along with instructions on the application procedure. We
would very much appreciate it if you would share this document with
potential candidates in your department or institute.
Sincerely yours,
Stuart Allison
Chair, NMR Search Committee
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30302-4092
Director of NMR Facilities at Georgia State University
The Department of Chemistry and the Center for Biotechnology and Drug
Design<
http://biology.gsu.edu/BDD/index.html> at Georgia State University
are seeking to fill a Director of NMR Facilities position before December
1, 2011. Interested candidates should have a PhD or equivalent in an
NMR-related field, postdoctoral or similar training, and experience in
biomacromolecular NMR work. Candidates should have state of the art
knowledge of NMR hardware and software, excellent communication skills,
and the ability to work across a broad area of applications from routine
small molecule NMR service to solving sophisticated research problems.
The NMR director will be a member of the Department of Chemistry staff and
be part of the Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design. The Chemistry
Department has an annual external support of about $5M, 120 graduate
students, 50 postdoctoral fellows, and a faculty of 35 for extensive
collaborations and NMR-related research work. The Department is also home
to the editorial offices of one book series entitled "A Wiley Series in
Drug Discovery and Development," and two journals, Heterocyclic
Communications<
http://www.degruyter.de/journals/hc/detailEn.cfm> and
Medicinal Research
Reviews<
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291098-1128>.
The latter journal was ranked #1 in Impact Factors (10.2) last year among
over 40 medicinal chemistry journals worldwide. The NMR director will also
need to work closely with faculty and students in Biology, the
Neuroscience Institute, and the broader university research community.
There are many other highly active research labs for collaboration
opportunities. Currently, there are four NMR instruments in the NMR
facility<
http://chemistry.gsu.edu/NMR.php>: one Varian 600 MHz, one Varian
500 MHz, and two Bruker 400 MHz. The Center for Biotechnology and Drug
Design<
http://biology.gsu.edu/BDD/index.html> also has excellent
instrument infrastructure in other areas related to biomedical research,
such as surface plasmon resonance, mass spectrometry, imaging and
microscopy, and DNA sequencing. GSU has also recently been ranked among
the top 15 academic institutions as the "best place to work" by The
Scientist magazine.
The search is part of a university-wide effort to strengthen biomedical
research at GSU. Along this line, two new centers have been established
this year: the Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics (CDT), and the
Center for Inflammation, Infection, and Immunity
(C3I)<
http://inflammation.gsu.edu/>. Eight new faculty lines have been
allocated to these two Centers. Seven senior hires with existing NIH
funding have already joined GSU or have accepted offers. These include
Professor Peng George Wang as Professor of Chemistry and Georgia Research
Alliance Eminent Scholar in Chemical Glycobiology (endowed chair) and
Professor Jiandong Li as Professor of Biology, Georgia Research Alliance
Eminent Scholar (endowed chair), and Director of C3I.
For full consideration, applicants should submit a cover letter, C.V., 3
letters of reference, and three representative publications through the
GSU Employment Office at
http://www.gsu.edu/jobs/ . (Optionally, the
publications and letters of reference can be sent directly to Dr. Allison
(see below)). Click on "Online Job Application" and follow the
instructions. For assistance using the system, please contact the Staff
Recruitment and Retention Office at 404-413-3270. The official title is
Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry, vacancy # 0602074.
Although the cover letter and CV must be submitted through the GSU
Employment Office as discussed above, applicants may choose to send three
representative publications and letters of recommendation directly to:
Professor Stuart Allison, Chair, NMR Search Committee,
Department of Chemistry
P.O. Box 4098
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4098.
Email: sallison_at_gsu.edu<mailto:sallison_at_gsu.edu>
For courier delivery, please use the following address:
Department of Chemistry
100 Piedmont Avenue
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
We encourage candidates to submit both electronic and paper files.
Application processing and reviewing will begin immediately and the search
will remain open until the position is filled. Georgia State University, a
Research University of the University System of Georgia, is an EEO/AA
employer and encourages applications from women and under-represented
minority groups. Offers of employment will be conditional upon background
verification.
--
“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies
in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace not to reach the
stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.”
-Benjamin E. Mays (American educator, Clergyman, 1895-1984)-
Roberto R. Gil, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor and
Director, NMR Facility
Department of Chemistry
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-4313
412-268-1061 FAX
rgil_at_andrew.cmu.edu
Received on Thu Sep 08 2011 - 02:56:50 MST