Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Writing proposals for securing external funding or to partner with other companies.
• Supervising technologists or technicians engaged in nanotechnology researching or production.
• Synthesizing, processing, or characterizing nanomaterials, using advanced tools or techniques.
• Identifying new applications for existing nanotechnologies.
• Providing technical guidance or assistance to customers on topics such as starting up, maintaining, or using nanosystems.
• Generating high resolution images or measuring force distance curves, using techniques such as atomic force microscopy.
• Preparing reports, delivering presentations, or participating in the programs reviewing activities for communicating engineering results or recommendations.
• Preparing nanotechnology related invention disclosures or patent applications.
• Developing processes or identifying equipment needed for pilot or commercial nanoscale scale production.