Postdoctoral researcher associate
Pubblicato il 14-09-2026 - Scienza / Ricerca / Sviluppo in Italia
Postdoctoral researcher associate for CryoEM facility & Preparation Laboratory (CERIC Membership Fees project WP3)
Deadline: 06 September 2026
Careers / Research Area
Ref: DA/26/26 Background
Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste is an international multidisciplinary research center offering international users access to synchrotron and free-electron laser radiation for the characterization and processing of matter. The extremely high quality of the light sources and beamlines has set new performance records and has been producing results of great scientific and technological interest.
In order to allow the laboratory to remain competitive in the next 20 years, an entirely new synchrotron radiation source - Elettra 2.0 - belonging to the new generation of storage rings (DLSR or Diffraction Limited Storage Ring) is being installed and will join the already operating free-electron source FERMI in the next months. The new source will exhibit a major increase in the brilliance and coherence fraction of the photon beams.
The Elettra 2.0 optics is based on our enhanced symmetric six bend achromat structure (S6BA-E) with a 12-fold symmetry and an emittance of 200 pm-rad at 2.4 GeV. The new structure creates also straight sections in the arcs permitting the installation of additional insertion devices, thus increasing the number of beamlines. Existing beamlines are being upgraded and new beamlines constructed to take full advantage of the characteristics of Elettra 2.0. See for more information.
Beamline / Project / Activity description
In the framework of the aforementioned upgrade, new beamlines will be built, extending our life science programs . Elettra is the Italian Partner Facility of CERIC-ERIC ( which was recently upgraded though the "Pathogen Readiness Platform for CERIC-ERIC Upgrade" (PRP@CERIC) project, funded by the Italian government and coordinated by Area-Science Park. One of the main achievements of the PRP@CERIC project is the installation, at the Elettra premises i