{"id":4560,"date":"2025-10-08T11:08:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/?p=4560"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:08:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:08:36","slug":"help-speed-up-the-fastest-usaxs-in-the-world-a-3-year-post-doc-position-at-diamond-i22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/4560","title":{"rendered":"Help speed up the fastest* USAXS in the world: a 3-year post-doc position at Diamond I22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"771\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy-771x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4562\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The current implementation of the previously portable, previously inexpensive USAXS instrument at the DLS I22 beamline<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I have it on good authority, that you can now do a WAXS\/SAXS\/USAXS measurement at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamond.ac.uk\/Home.html\">Diamond<\/a> in about 47 seconds, thanks to the relentless efforts of Emily, Andy and Tim (and a tiny bit from my side) to drastically improve <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1107\/S1600577521003313\">our OG prototype<\/a>. That should make it the fastest in the world, but the hunt is on to cement that claim, and perhaps bring it down by another order of magnitude. Therefore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diamond.ac.uk\/Instruments\/Soft-Condensed-Matter\/small-angle\/I22.html\">I22<\/a> has opened up a post-doc position for three years to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re in for an exciting time (in an admittedly rather unexciting Didcot, UK), check out their<a href=\"https:\/\/vacancies.diamond.ac.uk\/vacancy\/postdoctoral-research-associate-ultra-small-angle-xray-scattering-596854.html\"> job opening<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*) maybe.. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I have it on good authority, that you can now do a WAXS\/SAXS\/USAXS measurement at Diamond in about 47 seconds, thanks to the relentless efforts <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/4560\" title=\"Help speed up the fastest* USAXS in the world: a 3-year post-doc position at Diamond I22\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4446-copy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gZ2v-1by","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4565,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4560\/revisions\/4565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}