Job Description

Unlimited | Starting date: earliest possible | ID: FSMA030/2025 | Deadline: 25.09.2025 | Full-time/Part-time


DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.




With the storage ring PETRA III and the Free-Electron-Laser FLASH, DESY offers a unique combination of photon sources to the scientific community. PETRA III, one of the most brilliant hard X- ray facilities worldwide, provides a total of 25 beamlines for experiments utilizing the extreme source brilliance. P65 is open for international user groups since 2016. It is an undulator beamline dedicated to standard X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) with an emphasis on in-situ/operando experiments in catalysis and battery research. We are currently searching for a scientist who supports the beamline team in the user support and further development and implementation of innovative instrumentation at this beamline.


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About your role:

Support external user groups at the beamline Further develop innovative instrumentation and sample environments for highly automated operando experiments in collaboration with external groups Support the planning, design and installation of a XAFS beamline at the future storage ring PETRA IV Perform advanced XAFS experiments making use of the specific beamline capabilities Develop own independent research and participate in collaborative projects with external groups

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Good reasons to join:

Look forward to a unique working environment on our international research campus. Respectful cooperation and the well-being of our DESY employees are particularly important to us. Gender equality is an important aspect for us. To support work life balance we offer flexible working hours, variable part-time, job-sharing models and participation in mobile work (up to 50%). You will benefit from our family-friendly and collegial atmosphere, our established health management and occupational pension provision. As a public funded employer, we offer you a secure workplace and facilitate your individual career with our comprehensive training and development opportunities. Remuneration is according to the regulations of the TV-AVH. DESY offers its employees a financial supplement for a German job ticket (Deutschland-Ticket) at both locations.


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About you:

PhD in physics, chemistry, materials science or related disciplines Experience with X-ray spectroscopy techniques using synchrotron radiation Practical knowledge of programming and scripting languages and their application in experiment control Experimental skills and interest in instrumentation development Excellent knowledge of English Teamwork abilities, structured working

For further information please contact Dr. Edmund Welter at +49 40 8998-4510.


Please submit your complete application documents (letter of motivation, CV and relevant certificates).


We look forward to receiving your application via our application portal:





DESY promotes equal opportunities and diversity. The professional development of women is very important to us and therefore we strongly encourage women to apply for the vacant position. Applications from severely disabled persons will be given preference if they are equally qualified (sbv.desy.de).




You can find further information here:


https://www.desy.de/career/




Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY


Personalabteilung


Notkestraße 85


22607 Hamburg


Phone: +49 40 8998-3392


Deadline for applications: 26.09.2025