Post-doctoral position: Marie Curie funded job opportunity (Host Driven Action - Research and Training Network) for Experienced Researcher (4-10 years of experience)
Place of work: Institute for Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg Universitt at Mainz, Germany.
Contract: Fixed-term.
Duration: 2 years
Start date: 01/03/2007
Deadline for application: 01/02/2007
Job title: Hyperpolarised gas production and delivery 
Profile: An experimental physicist/ research engineer is sought with relevant experience of hyperpolarized (HP) helium-3 gas production.
Job description: The work will involve gas management on a centralized production facility, distribution of HP gas among the partners upon request. In collaboration with other PHELINET partners, two push-button gas administration units will be developed, one for controlled gas administration to living human subjects, and one for animal subjects. The post-holder will be encouraged to participate in ongoing collaborations with other researchers across Europe, with multiple opportunities to visit leading international academic and industrial laboratories and to attend taught summer schools.
Environment: The Institute of Physics is a research laboratory of the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitt at Mainz, Germany. Hyperpolarised He3 has been intensively developed and used for over 20 years, in research programs including fundamental tests of atomic physics as well as He3-magnetometry in combination with SQUIDs, high-energy and neutron physics, and MRI of lung ventilation in humans.
Funding: The project is funded as part of the EU- 6th Framework Program - Research and Training Network "PHELINET" (Polarised Helium Lung Imaging Network, 2007-2011, information posted on http://www.phil.ens.fr). As a consequence, specific rules with trans-national mobility conditions apply for recruitment. 
Gross amount of employment contract: 48786 euros/year. Recruited researchers in Marie Curie RTNs also receive travel, mobility, and relocation allowances.
Restrictive conditions: For detailed information about the rules of mobility and conditions of nationality applicable to eligible researchers, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/. In particular: 1/The candidate should preferably (but not exclusively) be a national of EU Member or Associated States, excluding Germany; 2/ At the date of appointment, she/he should not have resided or worked in Germany for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. PHELINET recruitment is based on an equal opportunity policy. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Contact: For more information on the project, please contact Prof. Dr. Werner Heil, Project Leader, Institute of Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. Tel +49-6131-3922885 e-mail: wheil@uni-mainz.de. 
Web site: http://www.physik.uni-mainz.de/exakt/helium3/


