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Please forward the attached job opportunity to potentially interested candidates. Many thanks Martin Smith. RESEARCH FELLOW IN GEOCHEMISTRY We wish to appoint a geochemist to support an NERC funded project on the behaviour of the REE on mineral surfaces and as neo-formed minerals in weathering profiles. The post is part of the SoS:RARE project (multidisciplinary research towards a secure and environmentally sustainable supply of critical rare earth elements), funded under the SoS:Minerals programme. You will work to define an experimental programme including mineral-fluid partitioning, mineralogical characterisation, and development of X-ray photoelectron spectrometry for the analysis of metals on mineral surfaces on the NERC co-funded XPS-FOAM facility (X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer Focussed beam And Monochromator). You will also work with collaborators and PhD students on the ICP-MS analysis of rock and soil materials, experimental solutions and natural waters. To be successful in this role, you will have, or be near to completing, a PhD and have experience in analytical techniques, preferably including one or more of: solution ICP-MS, clay mineralogy (by XRD and IR and Raman spectroscopy), electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS). The post is full time, for a fixed duration of 2 years and will involve attendance at national and international meetings. In return, we offer a generous package with benefits including annual leave starting at 35 days, paid bank holidays, additional paid leave during the Christmas period, travel loans, pension schemes and childcare vouchers. For informal enquiries please contact Dr Martin Smith ([log in to unmask]). Further details online via: https://jobs.brighton.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SV4096-16-230 ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geo-mineralisation is administered by the Mineral Deposits Studies Group (UK) (www.mdsg.or.uk)