Research Assistant or Fellow in Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology

23 Mar 2024
Job Data

Organisation/Firm

CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY

Analysis Discipline

Organic sciences

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
First Stage Researcher (R1)

Nation

United Kingdom

Software Deadline

14 Apr 2024 – 00:00 (UTC)

Sort of Contract

Different

Job Standing

Full-time

Is the job funded by means of the EU Analysis Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job associated to employees place inside a Analysis Infrastructure?

No

Supply Description

College/Division: College of Water, Power and Atmosphere
Based mostly at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of labor: 37 hours per week, usually labored Monday to Friday. Versatile working can be thought of.
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 often £34,450 every year, Analysis Fellow (if PhD obtained): Full time beginning wage is often within the vary of £37,337 to £39,316 every year, depending on expertise and expertise.
Apply by: 14/04/2024

Position Description

Analysis Assistant or Analysis Fellow in Metabolic Engineering and Artificial Biology

This place is a part of the just lately 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 educational companions.

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

This fast-paced challenge will provide you with the chance to develop new expertise by working intently with our interdisciplinary group and construct their worldwide profile together with by way of work with our educational and SME collaborators.

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

In regards to the Position

We’re on the lookout for 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 techniques biology for useful resource restoration and bioremediation purposes.

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

This submit provides a wonderful 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 subject, with demonstrated expertise in working with micro organism and microbial chassis. Proficiency in trendy metabolic engineering methods is important, together with a powerful background in artificial biology and bioprocess engineering.

It is best to possess wonderful analytical, problem-solving, and communication expertise, supported by a confirmed monitor 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 reviews and journal papers. and likewise exhibit a collegiate angle, readiness to work open air on sampling campaigns, means to work each independently and as a part of a group, 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 expertise and administration globally. Be taught extra about Cranfield and our distinctive influence right here .

You can be related to the Water Theme, residence to the Water-Atmosphere-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 inside the interconnected realms of water, soil, and waste. Contemplating the worldwide developments resembling fast urbanisation and local weather change, sustainable useful resource administration confronts unprecedented dangers. The nexus strategy acknowledges the intricate hyperlinks between water, soil, and waste, underlining the need for coordinated administration to navigate sustainable growth amidst these complexities.

Guided by this crucial for integration, Cranfield has cultivated a transdisciplinary analysis group, facilitating data 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 deal with these intricate challenges. Discover out extra about our work right here .

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, said values assist to outline who we’re and underpin every part we do: Ambition; Impression; Respect; and Neighborhood. Discover out extra right here .

We purpose to create and preserve a tradition during which 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 Prime 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 supplies many employees with the chance to flexibly mix on-site and distant working, the place job roles permit, balancing the wants of our group of employees, college students, shoppers and companions.

Learn how to apply                                   

For an off-the-cuff 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.

Time limit for receipt of purposes: 14 April 2024

Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 22 April 2024

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CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY

Nation

United Kingdom

Metropolis

Bedford

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Bedford

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