Post-doctoral position: Marie Curie funded job opportunity (Host Driven Action - Research and Training Network) for Experienced Researcher (4-10 years of experience)
Places of work: Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris, France, during the first year (March 2008 - February 2009), and Institute for Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg Universitt at Mainz, Germany, during the second year (March 2009 - February 2010). 
Contract: Fixed-term.
Duration: 2 years
Start date: 01/03/2008
Deadline for application: 01/02/2008
Job title: Improving hyperpolarised helium-3 production and administration
Profile: The experimental physicist (PhD) or research engineer should have relevant experience for polarised helium production, characterisation, and handling. These processes mainly involve optical techniques for pumping and detection with laser sources, high vacuum techniques for control of gas flow and purity, static or NMR techniques for measurement of nuclear magnetisation.
Job description: The work will focus on new instrumental developments for on-site production of hyperpolarised He3 gas in Paris, and for controlled gas administration to patients or animal subjects as well as efficient He3 recycling after magnetic resonance imaging in Mainz. The objective is to improve and characterize the performances of prototype setups, and to boost up the transfer of knowledge between the two places. 
Environment: The Laboratoire Kastler Brossel is a research laboratory of the Ecole Normale Suprieure, affiliated to the University Paris 6 and to the CNRS, located in the heart of Paris. The Institute of Physics is part of the University of Mainz. Hyperpolarised He3 has been intensively developed and used in both laboratories for over 20 years, in research programs including fundamental tests of atomic physics and quantum statistics, study of gas and liquid He3 at low temperature, high-energy and neutron physics, and MRI of lung ventilation in humans. The teams involved in this project have had a long-standing successful collaboration (see their web pages for more information on the research projects).
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: 49200 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/. Here, in particular: 1/The candidate should preferably (but not exclusively) be a national of EU Member or Associated States, excluding France and Germany; 2/ At the date of appointment, she/he should not have resided or worked in France or 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.
Contacts: 
- Dr Pierre-Jean NACHER, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris, France. Tel: +33-1-44323428. E-mail: nacher@lkb.ens.fr. Web site: http://www.lkb.ens.fr/recherche/flquant 
- Prof. Dr. Werner HEIL, Institute of Physics, Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. 
Tel: +49-6131-3922885. Email: wheil@uni-mainz.de. 
Web site: http://www.physik.uni-mainz.de/exakt/helium3/


