Research Assistant or Fellow in Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology

Organisation

Cranfield College

Faculty/Division

Faculty of Water, Power and Surroundings

Primarily based at

Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire

Hours of labor

37 hours per week, usually labored Monday to Friday. Versatile working can be thought-about.

Contract sort

Fastened time period contract

Fastened Time period Interval

For 3 years

Wage

Analysis Assistant (if near finishing PhD): Full time beginning wage is generally £34,450 each year, Analysis Fellow (if PhD obtained): Full time beginning wage is generally within the vary of £37,337 to £39,316 each year, depending on abilities and expertise.

Analysis Assistant or Analysis Fellow in Metabolic Engineering and Artificial Biology

This place is a part of the not too long ago funded UKRI funded Engineering Biology Programme Grant “EBIC: Environmental Biotechnology and Innovation Centre”, a collaboration between 11 universities together with Cranfield, Bangor, Brunel, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Essex, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt, Newcastle, and Southampton, in addition to greater than two dozen business and tutorial companions.

You’ll be part of a extremely utilized interdisciplinary challenge on the intersection of artificial biology, environmental engineering, and biotechnology. We intention to discover cutting-edge methods from artificial biology, biotechnology, and engineering science to develop progressive options in bioengineering and bioremediation. With a workforce of specialists from numerous fields, we’re on a mission to bridge the hole between engineering biology analysis and sensible functions, guaranteeing that our findings translate into significant actions that make a considerable and measurable distinction on this planet. The challenge has the actual potential to go far past basic analysis and has the potential to evolve into an actual enterprise within the close to future.

This fast-paced challenge provides you with the chance to develop new abilities by working intently with our interdisciplinary workforce and construct their worldwide profile together with through work with our tutorial and SME collaborators.

The analysis challenge will develop cutting-edge artificial biology instruments in pathway and metabolic engineering, addressing present challenges in key areas comparable to environmental biotechnology and bioengineering. The challenge combines cutting-edge applied sciences together with superior cloning programs and CRISPR instruments, and artificial microbial communities for bioengineering applied sciences within the water and waste sectors.

In regards to the Function

We’re in search of a passionate and expert Molecular Biologist with a specialisation in artificial biology, molecular biology, metabolic engineering, microbial biotechnology (or equal). The candidate will play an important function in creating engineering instruments for enzyme engineering and programs biology for useful resource restoration and bioremediation functions.

This place provides the distinctive alternative to be a part of a vibrant and pioneering workforce engaged on a extremely utilized analysis challenge with important environmental and social affect. You’ll have a possibility to work collectively inside a workforce of microbiologists, environmental engineers, chemists, experimental biologists and bioinformaticians, to develop novel engineering biology methods for environmental functions within the water and waste sectors and discover untapped biology of numerous microorganisms.

This submit provides a superb alternative for educational profession development in artificial biology.

About You

It is best to maintain a PhD (or be near completion) in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Bioengineering, or a associated area, with demonstrated expertise in working with micro organism and microbial chassis. Proficiency in fashionable metabolic engineering methods is crucial, together with a powerful background in artificial biology and bioprocess engineering.

It is best to possess glorious analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities, supported by a confirmed observe document of publications in related scientific journals. Moreover, it’s best to have sensible expertise in experimental design, execution, and information evaluation, notably within the context of environmental science and engineering and be able to working with multidisciplinary teams, making use of qualitative and quantitative information evaluation methods, and producing high-quality studies and journal papers. and in addition exhibit a collegiate angle, readiness to work outdoor on sampling campaigns, capability to work each independently and as a part of a workforce, and self-directed organisation.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate college, Cranfield’s world-class experience, large-scale amenities and unrivalled business partnerships are creating leaders in know-how and administration globally. Be taught extra about Cranfield and our distinctive affect right here .

You may be related to the Water Theme, dwelling to the Water-Surroundings-Well being-Nexus group and the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre led by Professor Frederic Coulon. This centre is dedicated to tackling the escalating challenges of environmental stewardship and sustainability throughout the interconnected realms of water, soil, and waste. Contemplating the worldwide traits comparable to fast urbanisation and local weather change, sustainable useful resource administration confronts unprecedented dangers. The nexus method acknowledges the intricate hyperlinks between water, soil, and waste, underlining the need for coordinated administration to navigate sustainable improvement amidst these complexities.

Guided by this crucial for integration, Cranfield has cultivated a transdisciplinary analysis neighborhood, facilitating information sharing amongst specialists specialising in numerous aspects of the nexus. This collaborative milieu empowers us to embrace a holistic perspective in our analysis actions, selling built-in and sustainable useful resource administration. With experience spanning environmental biotechnology, engineering biology, water and waste therapy, and remediation, our centre is well-equipped to handle these intricate challenges. Discover out extra about our work right here .

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, acknowledged values assist to outline who we’re and underpin every thing we do: Ambition; Affect; Respect; and Group. Discover out extra right here .

We intention to create and preserve a tradition wherein everybody can work and research collectively and realise their full potential. We’re a Incapacity Assured Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Variety Champions Programme. We’re dedicated to actively exploring versatile working choices for every function and have been ranked within the High 30 household pleasant employers within the UK by the charity Working Households . Discover out extra about our key commitments to Equality, Variety and Inclusion and Versatile Working right here .

Working Preparations

Collaborating and connecting are integral to a lot of what we do. Our Working Preparations Framework gives many employees with the chance to flexibly mix on-site and distant working, the place job roles enable, balancing the wants of our neighborhood of employees, college students, shoppers and companions.

The right way to apply                                   

For a casual dialogue about this chance, please contact Professor Frederic Coulon, Professor of Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology, on (T): 01234 754 981 or (E): [email protected]

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for additional particulars on E: [email protected] . Please quote reference quantity 4791.

Cut-off date for receipt of functions: 14 April 2024

Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 22 April 2024