Research Chemist

Found in: beBee S US - 2 weeks ago

Gaithersburg, United States Department Of Commerce Full time
Summary

NIST works with industry and science to advance innovation and improve quality of life. We're looking for a Research Chemist to join our team

This notice is issued under direct-hire authority to recruit new talent to occupations for which NIST has a severe shortage of candidates.



Duties

  • Develop and lead multi-disciplinary, collaborative teams to carry out research focused on the analysis, detection, and identification of known and emerging drugs of abuse from samples relevant to the public health and forensic chemistry communities.
  • Utilize data from a range of analytical tools, including traditional chromatographic mass spectrometry, ambient ionization mass spectrometry, and spectroscopy, to address research questions.
  • Drive the development and implementation of new technologies, analytical methods, algorithms, or data processing approaches to enable rapid, comprehensive identification and quantitation of known and novel drugs of abuse.
  • Author peer-reviewed manuscripts that discuss research findings and present research findings at national and international conferences.
  • Actively engage with internal and external partners to identify needs within the public health and forensic chemistry communities.

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