Lab Assistant

Mary Ang

Irvine Materials Research Institute · Operations Manager

Benefits

Other

Job description

IMRI facilities need enthusiastic and skillful graduate students and post-doctors to work as lab assistants or superusers frequently and to support facility operations when IMRI staff are busy or on vacation. You are qualified to become an IMRI lab assistant or superuser if you are skillful on one instrument, willing, and capable of assisting IMRI users. The working time is flexible and need-based.

Here are some benefits to be an IMRI lab assistant or superuser:

Gain deep knowledge of advanced instruments in IMRI.
Earn credit from your working time to pay for either your summer salary or your facility usage. Good compensation!
Have your name listed on the IMRI website.
Free training on other IMRI instruments
Work in a friendly environment and enhance your interpersonal skills.
Reference letter from IMRI staff for your future career

If you are interested in the IMRI positions as lab assistant or superuser, please contact IMRI staff or IMRI’s director of facilities (https://imri.uci.edu/people/facility-management/).

More information

Minimum education level

Master's

Job skills

Laboratory Techniques

Sample Preparation

Data Analysis

Equipment Calibration

Quality Control

Safety Protocols

Chemical Handling

Company overview

Irvine Materials Research Institute

Research Institute

The Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) is an interdisciplinary special research program for materials research established under the Office of Research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). As the cross-campus nexus for materials research and development, the primary mission of IMRI is to make UCI one of the world’s premiere institutes for materials research. IMRI has two major goals: (1) To establish and maintain world-class facilities for the characterization and fabrication of materials and devices, and (2) to serve as a national center of excellence for materials research. IMRI partners with the newly established Center for Complex and Active Materials (CCAM), which is funded through the National Science Foundation’s Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC) program. IMRI operates materials characterization user facilities that are open to all researchers in academia, industry, governmental labs, and non-profit organizations on a recharge basis. The IMRI facilities offer state-of-the-art instrumentation for transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM and FIB), X-ray diffraction (XRD), surface science (e.g., XPS), elemental analysis (e.g., ICP-MS), and many other techniques, as well as laboratories for sample preparation and materials fabrication. IMRI is the Orange County and Southern California hub for materials characterization services.