Staff Mass Spectrometrist
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Job description
- You operate and maintain the mass spectrometry infrastructure, including Orbitrap Astral instruments and supporting LC systems, ensuring consistently high performance.
- Coordination, preparation, and processing of biological samples for stable isotope tracing, metabolomics, epitranscriptomics, and other MS-omics analyses - including low-input and single-cell samples - are part of your responsibilities.
- You support the implementation of automated sample preparation pipelines to increase throughput and improve reproducibility.
- Hands-on guidance and training of students and postdocs in the use of the instruments is an important part of your role.
- You actively contribute to the development and optimization of LC-MS methods for metabolite quantification, isotope enrichment, lipid profiling, and modified nucleotides.
- Routine instrument calibration, troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance are carried out by you independently.
- You support data acquisition as well as initial QC and processing pipelines.
- You perform MS data processing and analysis across applications and collaborative projects, ensuring high data quality and consistency.
- You manage MS data across projects to ensure traceability, organization, and -reproducibility.
- You also help manage consumables, sample logistics, and platform documentation.