Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Engineering Biology

Organisation

Cranfield College

College/Division

College of Water, Vitality and Setting

Based mostly at

Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire

Hours of labor

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

Contract kind

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 each year. Analysis Fellow (if PhD obtained): Full time beginning wage is often within the vary of £37,337 to £39,316 each year, depending on expertise and expertise.

Analysis Assistant or Analysis Fellow in Engineering Biology

The submit 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 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 modern options in bioengineering and bioremediation. With a workforce of consultants from various fields, we’re on a mission to bridge the hole between engineering biology analysis and sensible functions, making certain that our findings translate into significant actions that make a considerable and measurable distinction on the planet.

The analysis challenge will develop new applied sciences underpinning Artificial/Engineering Biology, with the aim of reworking the sector so as to add reliability, robustness, and predictability all through the organic design course of. This will probably be addressed with a collaborative, interdisciplinary strategy with the workforce growing new wetware, software program, {hardware}, and principle, with these “pillars” of the programme contributing options to key utility challenges in Bioengineering Functions, Biotechnologies and Environmental Engineering.

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 expertise by working carefully with our interdisciplinary workforce and construct their worldwide profile together with by way of work with our educational and SME collaborators.

Concerning the Position

We’re on the lookout for a passionate and expert Molecular Biologist with a specialisation in artificial biology analysis and biotechnology utility. The candidate will play a vital function in growing engineering instruments and microbial consortia manipulation for organic water therapy methods, environmental monitoring, useful resource restoration and bioremediation methods.

The mixing of engineering rules with organic methods is important for managing pollutant cycles throughout waste and wastewater therapies. This course of not solely facilitates pollutant conversion into helpful assets, but additionally underscores the potential of pollution upcycling, transcending easy pollutant elimination in direction of worth creation.

The function includes main analysis initiatives focusing on non-conventional bacterial genomes for environmental functions in water and waste methods. This consists of utilising superior genome focusing on and enhancing methods to develop bacterial strains for varied functions comparable to surfactant manufacturing and enhanced degradation processes. The place additionally entails growing microfluidics and single-cell Subsequent-Era Sequencing (NGS) strategies for micro organism, conducting experiments with a number of bacterial strains, collaborating with a multidisciplinary workforce, analysing and deciphering information for analysis papers and displays, staying up to date on artificial biology and gene enhancing applied sciences, and supervising and mentoring junior researchers and college students concerned within the challenge.

This place gives the distinctive alternative to be a part of an internationally regarded, dynamic, pleasant, various and inclusive workforce engaged on the applying of cutting-edge artificial biology instruments in pathway and metabolic engineering, addressing present challenges in key areas comparable to biotechnology and environmental functions. 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 various microorganisms.

About You

You must maintain a PhD (or be near completion) in Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Bioengineering, or a associated discipline, together with demonstrated expertise in working with micro organism, gene circuits, and engineered biofilm methods. Proficiency in fashionable gene focusing on and enhancing methods is important, in addition to a powerful background in artificial biology, fermentation science, and bioprocess engineering. Glorious analytical, problem-solving, and communication expertise are required, together with a confirmed monitor report of publications in related scientific journals. You must have expertise in experimental design, execution, and information evaluation, notably within the context of environmental science and engineering and reveal a powerful understanding of their very own analysis discipline and the power to work successfully in multidisciplinary groups. Sturdy oral and written communication, in addition to technical writing expertise, are important, together with a proactive and collaborative perspective in direction of problem-solving and attaining challenge milestones. Confidence in collaboration, networking, and impartial analysis, in addition to the power to work each independently and as a part of a workforce with restricted supervision, are key attributes for fulfillment on this function.

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. Study extra about Cranfield and our distinctive impression right here .

You can be related to the Water Theme, house to the Water-Setting-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 traits comparable to speedy 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 consultants specialising in various 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 the whole lot we do: Ambition; Impression; Respect; and Neighborhood. Discover out extra right here .

We purpose to create and keep a tradition by which everybody can work and examine collectively and realise their full potential. We’re a Incapacity Assured Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Range 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, Range 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 offers many employees with the chance to flexibly mix on-site and distant working, the place job roles enable, balancing the wants of our group of employees, college students, purchasers and companions.

The way to apply                                   

For an off-the-cuff dialogue about this chance, please contact, Professor Frederic Coulon, Professor of Environmental Chemistry & Microbiology on: (T) 01234 754981 or (E): [email protected]

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for additional particulars on E: [email protected] . Please quote reference quantity 4790.

Time limit for receipt of functions: 14 April 2024

Interviews to be held: Week Commencing 22 April 2024